by Kandiss Edwards
August 7, 2025
Dr. Fraser has constructed a roadmap to usher within the subsequent era of enterprise leaders and professionals.
For over 30 years, Dr. George C. Fraser has served as an exemplary businessman who created areas to information future Black professionals. Because the founding father of Fraser Web, Fraser has been a shining instance of endurance. BLACK ENTERPRISE will honor the enterprise titan on the 2025 XCEL Summit for Males.
Fraser has created an area to open doorways for the subsequent era of leaders because the founder and CEO of the PowerNetworking Expertise & Expo. Moreover, he’s made it his life’s work to impart data to up-and-coming enterprise leaders. For twenty-four years, Energy Community has created an area for “networking and monetary legacy constructing.” Drawing on his profession expertise to tell his steering, Fraser steadily speaks concerning the expertise essential to flourish in enterprise.
On the 2024 Black Males XCEL SummitFraser spoke on the idea of time and its significance to all.
“I’ll inform anyone in a New York minute, ‘Do something however don’t waste my time.’ I’ll get extra money, however I can’t get extra time, and I don’t know the way a lot time I’ve, however I’m not going to assist you to waste it,” he mentioned.
Moreover, Fraser emphasised that respecting time is one of the best ways to realize one’s private {and professional} targets.
“Time is a foreign money. Don’t waste it. Discover your objective and deal with your self, and you’ll stay to do no matter God has assigned you to do.”
Utilizing Time Properly
As a graduate of Dartmouth Faculty’s Tuck College of Enterprise, Fraser was ready to step into the C-suite. Nonetheless, the grit and tenacity to persevere in a cut-throat business didn’t come from increased training.
Fraser started working as a janitor for LaGuardia Airport whereas concurrently paying his manner by way of college. He would go on to graduate in 1996. After graduating, Fraser minimize his enamel in enterprise working for Procter & Gamble, United Approach, and Ford Motor Co.
Fraser’s myriad accomplishments have demonstrated that he has certainly used his time correctly. He’s the writer of a number of best-selling books, together with Success Runs In Our Race, Full Information to Efficient Networking within the African American Group, Race for Success, The Ten Finest Enterprise Alternatives for Blacks In America, and Click on: Ten Truths for Constructing Extraordinary Relationships. Moreover, Fraser’s new e-book, The New Flex: The Artwork of Being Unapologetically Black, facilities and empowers the expansion of Black professionals.
Fraser is an inductee of the Minority Enterprise Corridor of Fame and Museum. He has based two constitution faculties in his quest to uplift the Black group. His intensive physique of labor in enterprise and the group has been acknowledged with 350 awards and citations, in addition to three honorary doctorates. On the XCEL Summit for Males, the person of excellence and knowledge can be formally acknowledged by a bunch of his friends.
To affix within the celebration, register for this 12 months’s XCEL Summit for Males right here.
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