by Kandiss Edwards
October 15, 2025
Ed Gordon, veteran journalist, interviewer, businessman and good friend of BLACK ENTERPRISE will host the 2025 “EXCEL Summit for Males.”
Few journalists command a room the best way Ed Gordon does. For greater than three a long time, he’s given a platform to tales and voices that may in any other case have gone unheard. In October 2025, the Emmy-winning interviewer will convey that very same power to the mainstage of the BLACK ENTERPRISE XCEL Summit For Males. Gordon will function host and grasp of ceremonies for the three-day occasion on the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando.
Gordon isn’t any stranger to the BE viewers. He was a 2024 XCEL Summit Award honoree and the face of the journal’s signature interview sequence, Our World. Throughout this period, his deep, thoughtful method to politics, tradition, and enterprise was on full show. His roster of profession interviews reveals the depth of his data, curiosity, and vary, having spoken with notable figures equivalent to Nelson Mandela and Tupac Shakur. Moreover, he talked to President Joe Biden in considered one of Biden’s remaining sit-downs earlier than withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.
His 2020 ebook, Conversations in Black: On Energy, Politics, and Management, compiled dialogues with greater than 40 influential Black leaders, designed to spark change and problem the established order. His profession accolades embrace an NAACP Picture Award and Journalist of the 12 months honors from the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ), along with his Emmy.
In 2025, Gordon continues to steer Ed Gordon Media and hosts his nationally syndicated radio present, WEEKend WITH ED Gordon. The versatile expertise mixes music with sharp dialog.
“By a long time of groundbreaking interviews and steadfast advocacy, Ed Gordon continues to amplify voices and form narratives that matter,” BE famous.
The 2025 XCEL Summit For Males, going down from Oct. 15 to 17, will function high-profile fireplace chats, management workshops, one-on-one teaching, and the XCEL Awards gala. With Gordon steering the dialog, attendees can count on candid dialogue, highly effective takeaways, and moments that stick lengthy after the lights go down.
Tickets can be found now on the official XCEL Summit For Males web site.
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