Speaker La Quita "Dr. Q" Frederick, Ed.D

Dr. La Quita Frederick, known in academic and industry circles as “Dr. Q”, is an award-winning marketing and communications professional with 20+ years of authentic and progressive leadership empowering, engaging, and inspiring the “teams behind the teams” to chase excellence and to be exceptional.

Recognized globally and nationally for exemplary leadership and performance, Dr. Q has a proven track record of building innovative campaigns/programs and leading strategic initiatives that expand opportunities and promote exponential growth across academia and industry.

She aptly and successfully combines forces with transformational leaders and collaborative teams to develop and execute frameworks, to apply qualitative and quantitative analysis, as well as to oversee strategic planning, implementation, and management for diverse projects and purposes.

Dr. Q’s diverse body of work spans business to academia, professional sports to college athletics, corporate to nonprofit, and beyond. She delivers and leverages high impact branding, marketing, and communications expertise as well as extensive event management and meeting planning experience to achieve corporate goals and vision, to cultivate executive branding and presence as well as to optimize organizational culture and synergy.

Having honed experience and expertise at The Ohio State University, Orlando Magic, Atlanta Braves, Durham Bulls, NC State University, Georgetown University, as well as working with the NBA, NCAA, MLB, and others, Dr. Q is known for challenging those in her sphere of influence to up their game.