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We believe that business education should be easily accessible for everyone at an affordable price.

We support business ecosystems through partnerships with

  • Governments
  • Libraries
  • Nonprofits

Whether your community needs one time programming or ongoing support, we want to help you create resilient and sustainable growth for your businesses and the organizations who believe in them.

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Business Workshops

Professional development

Keynote Talks

Duration 20-90 Minutes

Business Workshops

These workshops are tailored to local business needs, covering key skills like software evaluation, hiring plans, pricing structures, and more, giving your community actionable processes to implement right away! You can choose a workshop from our catalog or work with us to custom build something for your audience. Check out our YouTube channel for examples and what to expect from our workshops.

Target Audience

Small business owners and solopreneurs

Execution

Focused on specific operational or decision making skills, such as writing a job description, creating a pricing strategy, or building a spreadsheet

Implementable

Participants leave with a process they can implement in their business immediately. 

technical Assistance

Workshops are tailored to community needs, and skills are presented at a variety of technical competency levels

Flexible

Can be presented as a one time occurrence or as part of a series, whether we're teaching in person, virtually or hybrid.

Duration 60 minutes to full day

Professional Development

These workshops empower community organizers to address the needs of small business owners through targeted workshops that focus on creating connections with local resources, using online technology to reach a wider audience, and providing staff training. You can choose a workshop from our catalog or work with us to custom build something for your team.

Target Audience

Community organizers, librarians, administrative staff, and educators

SKill Building

Focused on training organizations on how to work with small businesses and support the local workforce

Collaborative

Created in conjunction with the organizer to meet the needs of their community and team

Subscription-Ready

Can be included as part of a course subscription package or workshop series

capacity building

Support organizations in expanding their business services within existing staff and budget constraints

Duration 30-90 Minutes

Keynote Talks

These focus on practical solutions for making entrepreneurship easier. Typically, we present to industry groups, business funding organizations, small business conferences, and economic development summits.

Founder Jessi Burg is known for her ability to take complex problems and distill them into actionable solutions with clear starting points. Her keynote speeches focus on specific ways organizations can support small business owners in their growth, with topics ranging from making grant applications more accessible to the relationship between hiring process and company culture.

Organizations she's spoken to include:

Rocky Mountain MicroFinance Institute, Impact100 Metro Denver, ProGreen Landscaping Confrence

Past Topics

Previous topics have included:

Grant Support

Making grants more accessible to small businesses

Technology

Impacts of changing technology on small business operations

Compensation

Balancing wages with rising costs of living in small businesses

Family-Owned

Hiring family members and successfully building a family-owned business

Download our founder’s speaker one page here:

Past Talks

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Podcast Guest Appearances
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Interviews & Press