Betty Hines
Owings Mills, Maryland
President & Founder, Betty Hines Business Strategist
Chair | Global Virtual SDG
Email: betty@bettyhines.com
Betty J. Hines is a Strategic Business Consultant who works primarily with CEOs and their Executive Management Teams in both the public and private sectors. However, many know her as a “Chief Collaborator,” “Business Connector,” “Women Business Advocate”, and founder of W.E.W Women Elevating Women.
Going above and beyond, Hines is an entrepreneur, speaker, business mentor and coach, certified group facilitator and served as a corporate executive, at a multibillion-dollar Fortune 100 Company, for many years. She was the former co-founder/owner of a property and casualty company that provided small business, homeowners, and automobile insurances to the underserved urban markets in the greater Baltimore and Washington, DC communities. Currently, she offers consultation with women entrepreneurs, who desire to elevate their businesses to the next level as a million-dollar business.
Betty exemplifies her value as a strategist consulting on how to scale and elevate. As a Chapter Chair for the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), a non-profit membership organization for women presidents, CEOs, and managing directors of privately held, multimillion-dollar companies, she facilitates monthly meetings that provide solutions to business challenges through shared experiences and expertise. In serving as a Chapter Chair with WPO, in order to increase visibility in the multi-cultural business community, and attract more diversity in WPO, Betty became one of the founding architects of the Women of Color Achievement Awards, in collaboration with Women Presidents’ Organization and The 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Since 2010, the Women of Color Achievement Awards celebrated in 22 cities across the country, including London, United Kingdom.
Betty also produces 1-day Virtual Global Conferences. This is a platform for multicultural women executives and entrepreneurs, and some visionary men, to come together and openly share and discuss what they did and what they need to do in order to sustain momentum, to reach new heights in their business and personal lives. It is about access to capital and more importantly for this group of women, access to opportunities. From these teaching moments, Hines defined her five Pillars of Success: Courage, Communicate, Collaborate, Connect and Cultivate. Women Elevating Women is teaching women with drive how to survive and thrive together.
When Betty is not being a women business advocate, she is active helping with nonprofits. Currently she is a Lifetime Member of VFW Auxiliary #521 and has served on numerous nonprofit boards. She has been inducted into the “Circle of Excellence” with the Daily Record Maryland’s Top 100 Women. Most recently, Betty awarded in July 2020, the Adrienne Hall Award for Breaking Down Barriers. This award goes to a Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO)member, Chapter Chair, organization, or sponsor – any stakeholder who has gone out of the way to collaborate with the WPO , and to forge alliances that have proven helpful to the organization. Esteemed WPO Board Chair Adrienne Hall started the first women-owned advertising company in the United States. A strong advocate for women’s rights, Adrienne contributed to the success and growth of the WPO by making connections that still enable the organization to provide superior programming and continued expansion-
Hines is a graduate and Lifetime Alumna the University of Michigan. She has received Executive Training in Strategic Leadership from Northwestern University, Kellogg Business School and has her Advanced Group Facilitation Certificate from the Edward Lowe Foundation. At present, Hines is training for a certificate on the One Page Business Plan.