Shanta Lana LLC | Business Consultant

When it comes to developing businesses, Ms. Shanta Lana Hereford is a visionary and mastermind. For more than twenty years, she has worked behind the scenes helping individuals, nonprofits, and both small and large businesses with their business strategy, formation, branding, marketing, management, and more.

Today, Ms. Hereford is a phenomenal businesswoman and serial entrepreneur with over 20,000 global connections and businesses in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Lagos, Nigeria.

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Each of the businesses and brands developed by Shanta Lana Hereford are built on the Build Your Brand Now Core PRINCIPLES ™. These core principles reflect each brand’s culture and commitment to our clients, partners, and everyone we do business with.

Passion and Purpose
Respect Everyone
Integrity
Nobility
Community Involvement
Inspire Others
People over Profits
Lead and Help Others Excel
Excellence is Expected
Support Others

Shanta Lana Hereford is an extraordinary woman and a resilient force to be reckoned with. She’s a full-time single mother and a pillar in her community who spends her spare time volunteering to help others.

Ms. Hereford is a visionary whose purpose and calling is to prepare people today for the problems of tomorrow by educating them and ensuring that they have access to the information and tools needed to sustain themselves and build generational wealth.

Passion and Purpose
Respect Everyone
Integrity
Nobility
Community Involvement
Inspire Others
People over Profits
Lead and Help Others Excel
Excellence is Expected
Support Others

Each of the businesses and brands developed by Shanta Lana Hereford is built on the Build Your Brand Now Core PRINCIPLES ™. These core principles reflect her companies’ culture and commitment to their clients, partners, and everyone they do business with.

Madame Ambassador, Ms. Shanta Lana Hereford is a mother of four, social entrepreneur, visionary, Global Goodwill Ambassador, and an advocate for Black wealth and empowerment.

She is the President and CEO of Building Bridges Global Investment Group, (BBGIG, Inc.) Inc. an investment company that started to help Black investors unite and create wealth to bridge the racial wealth gap. BBGIG, Inc. is the owner of several brands developed by Ms. Hereford including QwikTrips LLC, Baby Trap LLC, MyVirtual Show LLC, and Kith and Kin LLC.

Ms. Hereford is also the Founder and Primary Business Development Consultant for The Star Factor Effect, an award-winning business development agency helping entrepreneurs worldwide to start, scale, or transform their business for the 4th Industrial Revolution.

In 2017, she launched the Center for Truth and Healing, a nonprofit organized to provide food outreach, transportation, housing assistance, job skills training, holiday assistance, and more. CFTH has provided assistance to clients in Atlanta, GA; Beloit WI; Port Au Prince, Haiti; Wuhan, China; and Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2018 and 2020, Ms. Hereford was voted Stone Mountain’s Small Business Person of the Year. It was also during this time that she was appointed as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for the United States.

Ms. Hereford is also the Founder of CyberED Academy, a newly developed online platform dedicated to prepare K-12 students for the 4th Industrial Revolution and provide them with a beyond-basic quality education.