Everette Witherspoon is a CEO, motivational speaker, and author of the must read book From Minor Setback to Major Comeback.

He made history in 2010 when at the age of 32 he become the youngest person ever elected to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. That year he also became the youngest African American ever elected to an urban county board of commissioners in the state of North Carolina. He was reelected for a second term in 2014. He has also managed winning state senate, state house, school board, city council and county commissioner campaigns. During his eight-year tenure as County Commissioner he was known as one of the most articulate and outspoken elected officials in the state of North Carolina, choosing to focus on issues such as poverty reduction, job creation, health care, mental health advocacy and education equality.

Witherspoon is an entrepreneur, in 2010 he started a mental health care company that eventually grew into the biggest provider of psychosocial rehab services in the state North Carolina and expanded to Atlanta Georgia. Witherspoon was also an adjunct professor at Winston-Salem State University. Witherspoon graduated from Jackson State University with a bachelor’s degree in social work and from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor with a master’s degree in social work.