Charlotte, NC – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is pleased to announce that Blair Carpenter graduated from the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance’s Emerging Business Leaders (EBL) program. Blair was part of the 13th cohort of the program, which aims to elevate the leadership potential of high-performing professionals who come from a wide range of industries across the Charlotte region. The program is designed to connect peers from across industries to help create a competitive advantage for the region’s workforce and economy.
Over the past seven months, Blair and her fellow emerging business leaders participated in several sessions dedicated to topics such as ethical leadership, executive communication, and polarity management. The program’s 61 participants ranged from professionals across banking, health care, manufacturing, retail, and higher education.
Blair’s capstone group project centered on the work of Charlotte-based nonprofit Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas, with a particular focus on their JA Finance Park. That program provides students a hands-on education in personal finance planning and career exploration. Blair’s group volunteered to help run a JA Finance Park program for a local middle school, and then interviewed Crystal Taylor, the nonprofit’s vice president of programs and operations and EBL alumni, to learn about her leadership story and how she overcomes challenges within the nonprofit sector by keeping the mission her top priority.
At Parker Poe, Blair focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance, advising clients on a range of properties including hotels, retail, office buildings, multi-family complexes, and self-storage facilities. She represents financial institutions in a variety of transactions, such as construction loans, acquisition and development loans, term financing, and revolving credit facilities. Blair also represents financial institutions and businesses in purchasing, leasing, and selling real estate. In addition, she advises funders, law firms, and companies in the evolving world of litigation finance.
The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance is an economic development organization that advocates for business and aims to grow the economy through business recruitment and other means.
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