Improving Cannabis Business Performance

Improving cannabis business performance with Shanita Penny Founder/CEO of Budding Solutions. Our next guest is an internationally recognized management consultant with over a decade of experience in helping Fortune 500 companies solve complex issues and help in improving business performance. Shanita’s reputation as a strategic thinker and a results-oriented leader was cultivated in management and consulting roles with companies such as Pepsico, McCormick and Company and JDA Software. Shanita is a certified Project Management Professional and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Prior to founding Budding Solutions, she successfully led over $5 million in Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance software projects for a major telecommunications company. The Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA), is the first non-profit organization created specifically to progress the cannabis industry by increasing diversity through the creation of equal access and economic empowerment for cannabis businesses, their patients, and the communities most affected by the war on drugs. She is also a member of the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association’s (NJCIA) Board of Trustees. NJCIA is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to advancing the legalization of cannabis by promoting sensible policy for the responsible development and growth of a legalized cannabis-based economy.