Speakers, Presenters & Moderators

Fireside Chat: “Creating Our Next Generation of Change Agents” Panelist

Phylanice Nashe

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Podcast Host

Phylanice Nashe has more than twenty years of entrepreneurship and business leadership experience in the legal, manufacturing, IT, and e-learning industries. She has served as the CEO of the Nashe Law Group, LLC, co-founder of Innertainment Delivery Systems, LLC and principal of MaxxContent, LLC (leading e-learning and content distributor in the corrections space). Currently, Phylanice hosts the Phylanice Nashe Experience Podcast, featuring interviews with influential entrepreneurs and business leaders on how they’ve overcome the challenges of being Black in business.

Phylanice is a graduate of the 2023 class of Leadership Nashville. She is the 2021–2022 annual campaign chair for the Nashville Symphony board of directors and serves on the education and governance committees. Phylanice is also on the board of the YWCA of Nashville and Middle TN and serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Nashville Business Incubation Center. She is a member of the Curatorial & Education Committee of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) and a member of the Fulcrum Society and McWhorter Circle, annual giving societies supporting the YWCA and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

In 2021, she and her husband, Dr. Turner Nashe, Jr., donated $1 million to The Bridge Resource Partnership Fund, a funding resource for Black-owned businesses in Middle Tennessee. Since the fund’s inception, more than $450,000 in business loans have been committed and deployed.

Phylanice holds a B.S. from John Carroll University and a J.D. from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (Cleveland State University).