Carla Walker-Miller
Carla Walker-Miller is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur, Detroit booster,[1] and public speaker.[1][2]
Business career[edit]
Walker-Miller is the founder and CEO of Walker-Miller Energy Services,[3] a company in Detroit that, among other services, upgrades homes to be more energy-efficient[4] and employed almost 90 people as of 2018.[5] Under her leadership, Walker-Miller Energy Services made a list of the top fastest growing private companies five times.[6] However, her leadership of her company has been criticized on Glassdoor.[7]
Accomplishments, honors and awards[edit]
Walker-Miller is one of only a few business leaders to adopt progressive policies like a $15 minimum wage and a policy against excluding people with a criminal history from employment, and was added to the Inc. Female Founders 100 for efforts at "making an energy services company a tool for social justice".[6] She has also advocated a policy of hiring the long-term unemployed.[8]
Walker-Miller's work with her business led to her being named a "50 Black Women Over 50" Honoree.[2] She has also been inducted into her local Business Hall of Fame.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Martin, Raven (21 August 2020). "Carla Walker-Miller". Detroit Regional Chamber. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "CARLA WALKER-MILLER". 50 Black Women Over 50. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ↑ "About". Walker-Miller Energy Services. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ↑ Sherman, Laura. "Energy efficiency has been hit hard by COVID-19; don't question its merits". Utility Dive. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ↑ Gallagher, John. "The backstory of a black female entrepreneur's rugged path to profit". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Meyer, Anna. "Carla Walker-Miller". Inc.com. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ↑ Anonymous. "Walker-Miller Energy Services - Don't do it!". Glassdoor. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ Adams, Susan. "How Carla Walker-Miller Survived Corporate Life And A Startup Crash: 'By Crying A Lot And Being Stubborn'". Forbes.
- ↑ Christopherson, Matt (4 March 2021). "Metro Detroit Women, Linda Orlans and Carla Walker-Miller, Honored in Southeastern Michigan Business Hall of Fame". Retrieved 10 March 2021.
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