Meet Our Team
Millie Chu
Founder & CEO
Millie Chu, founder of Global Entrepreneurship Business Lab, has been committed to economic and community development, education, program design, and building infrastructures to strengthen communities around the world for nearly two decades.
In 2019, Millie was featured in Forbes as an immigrant leader who helps and inspires other immigrants to become entrepreneurs. In addition, she has been in the U.S. News and World Report along with dozens of media publications on economic and social justice, business and entrepreneurship.
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Globally, she created programs in the Middle East to benefit refugees and women owned businesses, and assisted entrepreneurs in the advanced technology industry across Asia, Europe, and South America.
When embracing work-life harmony, you can likely find Millie enjoying time with her loved ones, pampering her fur babies, gardening or exploring a new adventure.
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T.Rose Malone
Business Plan Specialist
T.Rose empowers entrepreneurs by helping them to write stellar business plans, transforming ideas into reality.
Armed with this invaluable tool, entrepreneurs are able to effectively evaluate their business’ potential, attract investors and lenders, and grow their enterprise. As a coach at the Global Entrepreneurship Business Lab, she mentors small businesses, guiding them in launching, expanding, and accessing capital.
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Drawing on research and personal entrepreneurship, she established WriteYourPlan.com in 2017 to assist entrepreneurs in crafting comprehensive business plans.
T.Rose, a dedicated mother of two motivated daughters, holds a master’s degree in guidance and counseling, and has excelled as a human resources consultant, public speaker, business owner, and international business consultant.
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Sharonda Simmons
Community Engagement Consultant
With over a decade of executive leadership experience, Sharonda Simmons has a proven track record of building high-performing teams and developing sustainable infrastructure that drives long-term success.
At Global Entrepreneurship Business Lab, Sharonda trains organizations on organizational principles. She has a deep-rooted passion for social impact and has served as a trained facilitator in Intergroup Dialogue for over 15 years. She has trained and facilitated curriculum for universities, educators, non-profit professionals, and community members since 2007.
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Colette Douglas
Soft Skills Development Specialist
Colette brings 30 years of training and consulting experience to the business community. At Global Entrepreneurship Business Lab, she specializes in delivering communications and soft skills training from a holistic lens and incorporates a wealth of best practice techniques.
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As an entrepreneur herself, Colette is a certified WBE and Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and President of Elite Customer Service (ECS), an Ann Arbor, Michigan based consulting firm.
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Guiqiu Wang
Career Consultant & Linguistics Specialist
At Global Entrepreneurship Business Lab, Guiqiu supports the team as a career consultant and linguistics specialist. She is an international educator and has 10+ years of experience working for economic development and social impact organizations facilitating people-to-people communications exchange between the U.S. and China.
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At GEBL, she also provides translation and interpretation services to benefit Chinese-speaking business owners, translates technical business training documents, and develops talent recruitment and retention strategies for skilled international STEM workforce.
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Shonna Hawkins
Attorney
Attorney Shonna Hawkins is an accomplished trial lawyer, counselor, and tireless advocate. For the past 20 years, she has successfully represented individuals and businesses throughout Michigan and Texas. She has represented clients on a multitude of matters—including business formation and development, employment matters, wills and trusts, guardianship, and conservatorship.
She also represent clients in civil matters including real property purchases, commercial lease negotiations, employment disputes, and estate planning.
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Shonna is a proud graduate of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and she holds degrees from Loyola University New Orleans in Philosophy and English Literature. Since 2010, Shonna has been a partner at DeYampert & Hawkins-The DeYampert Law Company PLLC in Southfield, MI.
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John Deyampert
Attorney
John is an experienced trial and appellate attorney. An alumnus of the United States Department of Justice's prestigious Attorney General Honors Program, John has handled complex litigation and successfully argued cases in courts across the country.
He founded The DeYampert Law Company PLLC in 2010. John specializes in Family Law, Business Law, Courtroom Advocacy and oversees the law company’s mission to help Detroit plan for prosperity and protect clients from injustice, abuse, and predatory acts.
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John graduated summa cum laude from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law and received the West Publishing Award for outstanding legal Scholarship. John worked as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Dale Wainwright (Former Associate Justice for the Texas Supreme Court) and the Honorable Kenneth M. Hoyt of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. John is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Thurgood Marshall Law Review, and has taught trial advocacy and persuasive skills at the National Advocacy Center.
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