SBA Women in Business Advocate of the Year for the State of Alabama, 1991
Delegate for the State of Alabama to the White House Conference on Small Business, 1995
Alabama Women and Handicapped Business Council Supplier of the Year, 1995
Delegate to the First National Women’s Economic Summit, Chicago, IL, 1996
Top Ten Career Women in Mobile, 1997
University of South Alabama Small Business Development Center Service Award, 1999
YWCA Woman of Achievement Award, 1999
Graduate of Leadership Mobile Class of 2000
American Business Women’s Association Mobile Bay Chapter Woman of the Year 2005
History Museum of Mobile Herstory 2012 Award
Accredited Constant Contact Solution Provider 2013
Certified as a Constant Contact Authorized Local Expert for the State of Alabama 2014
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Workshops, Etc!, Inc. is a professional development organization that provides workshops and motivational sessions in the areas of team building, process improvement and performance management.
Educational background includes degrees from Spelman College and the Georgia Institute of Technology along with studies in Total Quality Management, Statistical Process Control, Fundamentals of Human Resource Management and team/group facilitation. Ramona is a certified trainer of adult trainers, a master trainer and holds Masters Degree in Human Resources and Organization Development and a Doctor of Arts in Communication.
Raised in an entrepreneurial immigrant Lebanese family, Cariglino started her own business in 1989. As owner and publisher of the Women’s Yellow Pages of the Gulf Coast, Inc., she soon realized the true need of the women business owners in her area was for counseling, networking and training.
She founded the Women’s Business Assistance Center (WBAC) in Mobile, Alabama in 1993. The WBAC was one of the earliest SBA Women’s Business Centers, and has been continuously contracted with the U. S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership from 1993 to the present.
The Women’s Business Assistance Center, now called simply Women’s Business Center, Inc., is a 501 (c) (3) corporation that currently operates two SBA Women’s Business Centers serving seven counties in southern Alabama and formerly operated a Women’s Business Center in Pensacola, Florida. Retiring after almost 25 years of work in the women in business arena, Cariglino now has started her own consulting business called NGU Consulting. NGU stands for her personal philosophy of life and business: Never Give Up!