Vernita Whitaker Naylor

Entrepreneur & Small Business Advocacy Expert; Founder of Jabez Enterprise Group; Author of "Get the Cheese, Avoid the Traps"; Government Contracting & Supplier Diversity Specialist

Atlanta, GA, USA
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Author, Business, Business Authors, Business Consulting, Business Leadership, Communication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Influential Women, Personal Growth, Small Business, Women, Women in Business, Women's Empowerment
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Vernita Whitaker Naylor Biography

Vernita Whitaker Naylor is an entrepreneur, author, advocate, and storyteller with a career focused on supporting underrepresented businesses. She founded Jabez Enterprise Group to educate small businesses on partnering with and selling to corporate and government buyers through procurement and supplier diversity programs. Naylor has spent more than 30 years educating and advocating for diverse business owners across industries including music, entertainment, supply chain management, and government contracting. Her expertise is informed by her experience as a former federal government employee and as a certified business owner working with Fortune 500 companies and government entities.

Naylor is the author of "Get the Cheese, Avoid the Traps: An Interactive Guide to Government Contracting" and "Speaking in Colors." "Get the Cheese, Avoid the Traps" serves as a resource for business owners and buying agencies to foster effective partnerships within procurement and supplier diversity. She is active in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion industry as a cultural equity advisor and collaborates with organizations such as Small Business Development Centers, Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, and Chambers of Commerce to enhance supplier diversity and government contracting programs. Naylor has been recognized as one of the nation's top 100 pioneering small business owners and received a White House invitation to represent business interests.

As an advocate, Naylor has spoken on behalf of small businesses at Capitol Hill and served on advisory councils, policy boards, and commissions. Her contributions extend to press releases, business journals, and policy initiatives. She has held roles such as marketing director for the Silicon Valley African Film Festival and contributed to community revitalization as the Small Business, Retail, Art and Culture Chair and Council Advisory Co-Chair for the West Oakland BART Station Project. Naylor also served as a park, recreation, and historical commissioner for Alameda County, overseeing the safety, funding, and maintenance of parks and historical sites.

Naylor's work as a storyteller includes roles as a voice-over artist, actress, and speaker. She has appeared in "AARP - 70s," "Beyond Bars," and "Suppressed 2024: The Fight to Vote." For more than 25 years, her efforts have focused on economic empowerment, small business advocacy, and cultural equity. Naylor participates in discussions on various platforms, councils, and roundtables, contributing to conversations on economic equity and small business development.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/17/2026.

Vernita Whitaker Naylor Speaking Topics

  • Leading and Managing Diversity

    Speak the Colors of those within diverse settings as a leader so that you can embrace everyone and make sure that their voices and ideas can feel heard to obtain the desired results and goals. Leaders are taught the best practices for interpersonal relationships regardless of the diversity of personalities present. All ideas that are brought to the table should be accepted with the understanding that when we communicate we are exchanging vibrational frequencies of information and intelligence that can either positively or negatively affect the outcome. With her experience in leading and managing diverse groups and individuals Vernita teaches that exchanges processed between the parties that are understood either consciously or subconsciously when we speak to each other are being filtered through the colors (personalities) lens that began within our childhood. What messages are you conveying?

  • Making the Right Connections

    When you notice a breakdown in communication what do you see? How we communicate determines how we connect as the message is being conveyed by the sender and how it is interpreted by the receiver. We can look at or read the same thing yet come away with varying viewpoints. She teaches the power of communication and what it reveals about us. It can either build up or tear down, motivate or hinder, influence good or bad results, or can impact life or create death. What happens is when information is received it is filtered and interpreted through our internal lens. These lenses are developed in several ways from what we’ve been taught, our surroundings, and our environment to our biases. Using her various experiences from the music, construction, and IT to the entertainment industries for over twenty years Vernita has the desire is help build connections through establishing an understanding of how to work through the biases and obstacles that tend to hinder communication styles.

Vernita Whitaker Naylor Videos

“Colorful Communication” with Vernita & Nikita Nikol Naylor

“Colorful Communication” with Vernita & Nikita Nikol Naylor

Co-authors of “Speaking in Colors,” Vernita and Nikita Nikol Naylor explore the benefits of knowing your color frequency and advantages to...

Vernita Naylor | Speaking In Colors | Tech Inclusion SF 2017

Vernita Naylor | Speaking In Colors | Tech Inclusion SF 2017

Speaking in Colors Solo Talk by Vernita Naylor at Empovia's (formerly Change Catalyst) Inclusion Conference in San Francisco, CA in October 2017.

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WSO Conversations

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Speaking In Colors
Speaking In Colors

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Vernita Whitaker Naylor is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Leading and Managing Diversity and Making the Right Connections. The estimated speaking fee range to book Vernita Whitaker Naylor for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Vernita Whitaker Naylor generally travels from Atlanta, GA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Tiana Sanchez, Dr. Kimberly Harden, Jamira Burley, Kristie Kennedy and Shiza Shahid. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Vernita Whitaker Naylor for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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