HERstory with Toni Simmons-Henson

Toni Simmons Henson is a distinguished non-profit executive with over 30 years of experience in business development, event marketing, and arts administration. She is a published poet, a number-one best-selling author, a public speaker, and an award-winning entrepreneur dedicated to fostering creativity and organizational excellence. Notably, Henson became the first African-American executive director of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), the largest theatre conference in the U.S., where she led a significant organizational transformation, turning a projected deficit into a six-figure surplus. Additionally, her accomplishments include streamlining processes, restructuring workflows, developing new job roles, negotiating vendor contracts to optimize cost/benefits, and enhancing sponsor relationships with major companies like Disney Entert ...