Latanyua Robinson

Founder + President, LATROBE LLC

Latanyua Robinson is the founder & president of LATROBE LLC, a consulting firm focused on the career readiness, commercial readiness, and community readiness for individuals, businesses, and institutions. LATROBE LLC has provided management consulting in industrial manufacturing and transportation for over a decade. In 2019, the business evolved into a consulting firm that operates transactional businesses to provide livable wage job opportunities. LATROBE uses transportation as a vehicle to drive culture and employee engagement for coaching essential skills development among the team.

Robinson has served on the Arkansas Workforce Development Board during Governor Asa Hutchinson's time in office, since 2004 has been on the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Board and has been recognized as a distinguished alumna by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. In 2002, her company LATROBE LLC was named the Arkansas Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year.

Latanyua is married to James E. Robinson and is the mom of an adult son, Quincy.

Jessie Wilson

Partner & Senior Trainer, Dale Carnegie Training Mid-South

Jessie Wilson is a senior trainer for Dale Carnegie Training of the Mid-South, offered by Howard, Franks, Wilson & Associates. Wilson is also a partner of the Dale Carnegie Mid-South office which services Arkansas, west Tennessee, north Mississippi, south Missouri, as well as parts of Oklahoma and Texas.

As a certified Dale Carnegie senior trainer, Wilson is responsible for collaborating with organizations to provide world-class training to their workforces. She has been acknowledged by Dale Carnegie and Associates as being in the top consultants in North America for the past several years.

Wilson has worked with companies in the manufacturing, engineering, financial services, technology, oil and gas, real estate, business services, customer service, healthcare, construction, and information technology industries. She has expertise in several key competencies including, but not limited to, sales, communications, all levels of leadership, conflict resolutions, personality styles, public speaking, strategic planning, coaching, complaint resolution, generational gaps, and interpersonal skills.