An Atlanta-based Black business owner is Georgia’s Small Business Person of the Year. Ken Taunton, founder of The Royster Group — a professional recruiting and staffing firm — received the award this week at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
For Taunton, who started his career off as a sales rep, as he rose in his career, he discovered the lack of diversity in positions of leadership.
“What I really found out was … working on those senior-level executive positions, there were no people of color or women in those executive positions,” said Taunton. “I realized that … there’s got to be people — people of color and women that could go into these positions or that are qualified, and so I said, you know what, I’m gonna start The Royster Group.”
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