Time Mastery is Tomorrow

Time is our most precious asset in creating true business success. Unfortunately, so many of us often mismanage and give away our time to nonpriorities and distractions. Add to this: our current demands with WFH and COVID, and it’s becoming even more difficult to manage our days, projects, and tasks.

Join Lori Vande Krol, Productivity Expert and Owner of Life Made Simple, as she shares twelve categories of time management, related obstacles, and proven tips and tools to improve the way you perceive and manage time. While the strategies learned in this program will no doubt be helpful during these uncertain and changing times, the takeaways will also support your goals and work in the months and years ahead.

Join NAWBO DC Sister Elena Sonnino as she speaks at the national Lunch & Learn series, February 9th at Noon. She will be sharing on Nurturing and Nourishing Yourself With Your Core Values.

What does it mean to thrive in your life, especially when plans get turned upside down? What if you could be like a Redwood tree, able to not just withstand, but thrive through the ups and downs of life? In this interactive session, you’ll explore the role of your core value and how to embody them as the foundation for thriving in your personal and professional life. You'll leave with practices to help you be rooted in yourself so that you can embody that truest version of you in your work, in your life, and in the world.

Learn how to get centered and grounded in the values that make you YOU as a foundation for thriving.
Develop a routine to nurture and nourish your truest self even when life feels like it is getting in the way.
Establish your priorities and stay accountable to your truest self.
Develop a routine to nurture and nourish your truest self even when life feels like it is getting in the way.
Establish your priorities and stay accountable to your truest self.

The mission of dK east is to be your partner and mentor in strategic, financial and operational management. With over two decades of experience in accounting and finance, especially in sports, media and professional services, we can help you tackle the financial and strategic issues specific to these industries to let you handle the part of your business that you are passionate about.

How do we differ from a full-time CFO/Controller or your CPA? While many CFO’s are indeed CPA’s, the opposite is not the case. CPA's are integral in planning for greatest tax advantages but CFO’s embrace not only the financial and accounting side of business but are able to translate that into actionable items that can grow your business and make it better. dK east, LLC takes that even further by having experienced team members who have operational as well as financial backgrounds and we do it at a fraction of the cost of a full-time CFO or Controller.

We'll give you a better understanding of the financial side of your business so you have fewer surprises. We will help you implement accounting processes, policies and structure that are scalable as you grow but at the same time don't hinder your business. As your business partner, we will help you interpret information and data to enable you to make timely and informed decisions to grow your business.

dK east serves as a turnkey finance solution enabling companies to focus their efforts, resources and expertise on product development, service delivery and sales/marketing activities. We provide temporary, interim and long term solutions enabling companies to achieve the highest quality yet scalable financial advisory services. Clients have access to a broader range of services/expertise with costs better matched to the actual resource usage. We specialize in designing and implementing accounting systems and structures to be scalable and grow with your business.

We’ve worked with marketing agencies, video/podcast production studios, streaming radio services, youth sports programs, after-school sports programs, social and competitive sports leagues, non-profit organizations, restaurants and professional services firms.

Maggie Lena Walker of Richmond, Virginia, was the first African American woman to charter a bank in the United States.

Maggie’s mother was a slave and though her biological father was an Irish Immigrant and confederate soldier, her mother eventually married a fellow servant and Maggie took his name.

As a young girl, Maggie helped her Mother wash laundry but she went to school and became an elementary school teacher. After marriage, she resigned from teaching (married women were not allowed to teach).

"In the time of Jim Crow with lack of resources and serious racism, she wanted to help her community. Maggie joined her local social organization, the Order of Saint Luke, which gave support and services to the community.

Maggie then started a newspaper, named the Saint Luke Herald, as well as a store.

Maggie was very aware of the need for financial access in order for the Black community to develop, and Blacks were consistently denied access to capital. She took action and chartered a Bank based in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia in 1903, giving Blacks access to much-needed Home and Business loans. It was a success! Her bank, named the Saint Luke's Penny Savings Bank, lasted through the Great Depression, grew into The Consolidated Bank & Trust Company. Maggie's bank was the longest operating Black owned bank until 2009 when (during our most recent recession where many banks were consolidated) it was acquired by Premier Bank in a multi Bank deal. Maggie served as President and Chairwoman until her death in 1934. "