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Educate
Inspire
Empower
Creative Solutions for Helping Women
Achieve Outrageous
Success
Mission
Mable
Cannings International is a global personal/professional development
and marketing company dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs and
small business owners to achieve financial and spiritual success.
WE
advocate personal responsibility,accountability, education, faith,
planning and courageous action coupled with innovative resources, tools
and systems to help our clients fulfill their destiny.
Through
the gift of communication, our vision is realized via training
seminars, speaking engagements, writing books, workshops, conferences,
bootcamps, inspirational journals, radio and television shows, and
much, much more.
Mable
Cannings' Bio
Mable (Harris) Cannings distinguished
herself as a force throughout her illustrious thirty
(30+) year career. Her first professional job while in college was as a
volunteer coordinator for the Job Corps of America which landed her the
coveted recognition as the “Outstanding Volunteer of the
Year” which resulted in a VIP tour of the White House and
ceremonies with the Secretary of Labor presenting the award.. The event
spun national media stories about Ms. Cannings and her success as
a single mother in helping other economically disadvantaged
persons to re-establish their lives while managing her own.
In 1976, Cannings competed for and won an Urban Fellowship for Women in
Public Administration through the Department of Housing and Urban
Development which afforded her the opportunity to attend
graduate
school. In spite of having two children in tow, Ms. Cannings earned her
Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a
Master’s in
Urban and Public Affairs from the University of Texas.
Immediately, after graduation, Ms. Cannings was appointed the founding
director of the City of Fort Worth Action Center where she was
responsible for the development and promotion of the agency.
In 1975, Ms. Mable (Harris) Cannings met John Cannings and
were
married in 1978. In late 1979 they relocated to
Nacogdoches
Texas for educational purposes and raised two additional children
there. While working as a Program Director for the Deep East
Texas Council of Governments Private Sector Initiatives Program,
Cannings re-connected with her roots and her destiny. Cannings father,
Charlie L. Harris had been a tireless entrepreneur for over twenty-five
years and had instilled in her a deep sense of independence.
With
this inspiration, an entrepreneur was born.
Cannings twenty five year entrepreneurial journey begin in 1983 as an
independent grant writer, public relations consultant, event planner,
and business consultant. Eleven of those years (1995-2006) was spent in
the travel and tour industry where she operated a retail travel agency
and charter bus service. Ms. Cannings was one of few black
woman
owned transportation companies is Texas
Ms. Cannings says that her most gratifying work has been as a
trailblazer and advocate for women. In 1990 Ms.
Cannings
pioneered the Conference for the Empowerment of Women at the World
Trade Center in Dallas. Ms. Cannings personally financed these events
for three consecutive years. Cannings also published a
spin-off
publication, DFW Magazine to inspire and empower small business
owners. Moreover, Cannings has successfully operated her own
business for over twenty-five years and continues today to empower
women and entrepreneurs through her various business ventures, public
speaking, seminars, boot camps and retreats at sea.
The City of Nacogdoches Women’s Commission on Families
inducted
Ms. Cannings into the Hall of Fame for Women for Business
Professionalism in 2004.
Cannings recently authored her debut non-fiction book, The Heart and
Soul of Business: One Woman's Journey was released in
September 2008 ISBN: 978-1-60647-345-0 which can be found on www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com
and www.borders.com
and is now available in most of the Hastings Books Music and Video
stores in east Texas. Cannings has also authored and published
two
inspirational journals: An
Empowerment Journal for Women and Ah-ha Moments for Teenagers
to be released in the first quarter of 2009.
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