The Leveling It Up Program offers you a customized curriculum path based on their challenges, including training programs, skill development workshops, mentorship, group collaboration, and networking opportunities.
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Following are the list of Training Opportunities (Programs & Workshops) available, talk to your program advisor for your personalized program path:
- Restorative 101 Workshop Series
Delivered by: Restorative Approach Conflict and Education Services Inc
A workshop series and 1:1 coaching focusing on what it means to be restorative, how to work with conflict when it naturally occurs, and how to create supportive relationships within your organization and with your clients. This 101 workshop will give you the foundations in the relational lens in business.
- The Champion Mindset
Delivered by: Champion Foundational Change Agency
This five-module program is designed for business owners, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be that may unknowingly be held back from bringing their complete authenticity, creativity, and innovativeness to their new or existing venture. This course will move participants beyond limiting beliefs, step outside their comfort zones, and Champion their goals of thriving where they work, live and play.
- Motivational Speaker Series
Delivered by: WKI – Wendy Kennedy.com Inc
Join Wendy Kennedy, founder of WKI, in this entrepreneurial speaker series designed to motivate and inspire you. Wendy will share her advice and lessons learned as a woman founder and also invite other women entrepreneurs to join the series to share their experiences. This is an opportunity to hear from other women founders about their entrepreneurial journeys. There will also be time devoted to engage the speakers in conversation with your own questions.
- WealthCare 101 - April Stroink Money Coaching
Delivered By: April Stroink Money Coaching
This opportunity is a step-by-step financial education 8-week program designed to help. participants understand the financial basics they need to run a successful business, withstand economic uncertainty, and own their role as Chief Financial Wellness Officer.
- Restorative Approaches to Client Relationships
Delivered by: Restorative Approach Conflict and Education Services Inc
A workshop series and 1:1 coaching focusing on client relationships and mastering the skills to listen more deeply to our clients’ pains and show up to hard conversations in good ways. Deepen your understanding of the restorative (aka relational) approach to business and why this lens is so important when leading an organization.
- Restorative Coaching Sessions:
Delivered by: Restorative Approach Conflict and Education Services Inc
A one hour coaching session for people who would want to have a personal perspective and understanding.
- Essential Presentation Skills for Women Entrepreneurs
Delivered By: ShiftED Academy Inc.
Training and Coaching to support and empower women entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals by increasing their competencies and confidence for presenting online and in person.
-Introduction to Venture Capital
Delivered by: Atlantic Women Venture Foundation
This is a five-week experiential course tailored as an introduction to Venture Capital concepts. You will learn and assess funding sources, founder funding journey, venture capital fit, inside venture capital firms, how to evaluate a venture capital partner and due diligence for pitch readiness.
- Profit In Practice
Delivered By: April Stroink Money Coaching
This is an eight week program designed as a transformative group experience designed to boost confidence when it comes to business finances. Participants will learn and put into practice proven tools and simple systems to give them complete financial clarity on making intentional decisions in their business.
- Validation Workshop
Delivered by: Mary Jane Copps Telephone Talent Inc. (The Phone Lady)
A half-day workshop that will provide you with the skills and tools to thoroughly research your target market, and reach and interview industry experts/potential customers.
- Innovator
Delivered by: CEED
A nine-week program designed for business builders and innovators with a disruptive idea they want to turn into a business opportunity. This program runs under the WKI Ideation Program So what? Who cares? Why you? ® and it guides the participant to move from ideation to initiation..
- Wendy Kennedy Monthly Mentoring Meetups
Delivered by: WKI – Wendy Kennedy.com Inc
A monthly online meetup where you as the entrepreneur can join together with Wendy Kennedy, founder of WKI, to learn about topics for designing your idea into a winning business. Topics will include: building traction in the market, designing a winning go-to-market strategy, profiling your ideal customers, articulating your idea using a napkin, and more. Each month will focus on a specific topic. Come along and join the conversation and bring your own insights. If you are participating in the Innovator Program, be sure to attend these sessions as they will support the work you are doing.
- Venture Jumpstart Program
Delivered by: NuBInary
1:1 Mentorship opportunity to support you through the different stages of venture development (commercialization, intellectual property strategy and fundraising) and Technology and Product Development
- Introduction to Web Development
Delivered by: Lighthouse Labs
This course is great for a business owner looking to understand the development workflow and improve communication with a development team to build more efficient relationships or an entrepreneur looking to get started on building a minimum viable product (MVP). This course will equip the participant with the tools that apply directly to professional web development. At the end, the participant will have built a functional web app and will understand web development fundamentals for both the front and back ends.
- Technology and Product Mentorship
Delivered by: NuBInary
A 1:1 Advisory program designed to help entrepreneurs identify the scope of costs and roadmap to build successful technology products. This program includes hours of 1:1 coaching a mentoring with a CTO and thorough technical due diligence and write-ups to develop the plan you need to build your prototype, identify the original costs, and design the technical roadmap.
- Incubator
Delivered by: CEED
A six-week program designed to help participants identify the best business model to run their business.
- LaunchPad
Delivered by: CEED
A seven-week program designed to guide you in deconstructing your initial business vision into a business model. If you are an innovator who has validated your idea, this is the next step before hitting your ignition switch. The outcome of this program is a sustainable business model design (assumption based) that you can pitch and start testing.
- Introduction to Front-end Web Development with Java Script
Delivered by: Lighthouse Labs
This course is designed for those looking to understand the development workflow and improve communication with a development team to build more efficient relationships or an entrepreneur looking to get started on creating a minimum viable product (MVP) and those who already run an existing website, want to build a new website, or work with developers to build your company’s web applications.
- The Marketing Audit 1:1 session
Delivered by: Safi Media
This is a written marketing audit of one marketing asset of your business (website, landing page, sales page, LinkedIn profile or page, podcast or B2V proposal) to outline the steps you need to take to strengthen your niche, offer and message clarity. Includes a one-hour private session. Safi Media will show you how to nail your niche, clarify your message, and craft an irresistible offer. In our 1:1 session, we will audit one asset to document the current power of your niche, your offer, and your message Assets can include: Website, Landing Page, Sales Page, LinkedIn Profile or Page, Podcast, B2B Proposal Clear, documented roadmap to strengthen and clarify your niche, offer and business message.
- The $500k Offer
Delivered by: Safi Media
In this practical training, Safi Media will guide you through a proven process they have implemented with hundreds of women entrepreneurs globally, to help you scale your service business. You will learn how to make more money and impact more clients by creating a premium scalable offer that saves you time, reduces overwhelm, and helps your company grow bigger than you. This training will teach you how to construct premium offers that take no more effort to generate %500k in sales, as they do to generate $50K in sales.
- Startup Workshop
Delivered by: Mary Jane Copps Telephone Talent Inc. (The Phone Lady)
A full-day workshop to guide participants to identify how many prospects they need to reach to meet their sales goals and then create the process for making this happen. They will define and refine how they sell and learn the necessary communication skills to consistently create revenue.
- Introduction to Data Analytics
Delivered by: Lighthouse Labs
Intro to Data Analytics is the right fit for professionals looking to familiarize themselves with data analysis fundamentals to better communicate with staff, enhance their current business reporting capabilities through tableau and make better business decisions based on company data.
- Wealth Care 101
Delivered by: April Stroink, Money Coach
This is a step-by-step financial education 8-week program designed to help women entrepreneurs understand the financial basics they need to run a successful business, withstand economic uncertainty, and own their role as Chief Financial Wellness Officer.
- The Beyond One-to-One Virtual Bootcamp
Delivered by: Safi Media
This is a 2-day Virtual Bootcamp to learn every secret, every strategy, every tactic Safi Media has used to create, launch and scale high ticket group programs that have generated millions in revenue and build a business with low overhead and high profit margins. You will learn how to complement your current 1:1 service delivery with a lucrative revenue stream Learn tips and techniques to ensure groups of people make genuine progress without your painstaking 1:1 attention.
-Legal Acumen for Business (1:1 Direct Support)
Delivered by: Initio Law Clinic
This is a A 1-year membership for legal support for business owners.
- Group Sessions Group sessions - Legal Broad Topics
Delivered by: Initio Law Clinic
This program is designed to focus on expanding its partnerships with the community, sharing expertise with a critical sector, and providing legal support and advice for startups, advise on all manner of business structuring, contract review and drafting, IP license and transfers, privacy compliance and more
- Profit In Practice
Delivered by: April Stroink, Money Coach
This is an eight week program designed as a transformative group experience designed to boost confidence when it comes to business finances. Participants will learn and put into practice proven tools and simple systems to give them complete financial clarity on making intentional decisions in their business.
- Legal Essential Online Course
Delivered by: Online Legal Essentials Inc
This is a self paced eight session online course designed to provide you with the tools to create a solid legal foundation while you grow and scale your business. Includes: Essential Contracts, Legal Structures, Copyright and Trademark Essentials, Website Legal Essentials and Doing Business Online.
- Weekly Q&A group sessions with Legal Essentials program
Delivered by: Online Legal Essentials Inc
This is a weekly group sessions intended to help program participants to integrate and implement the program materials. The goal of the content is to give business owners the tools to create a solid legal foundation so that they have confidence as they start, grow, and scale their businesses. The content is consistently adapted to meet legal changes and the changing nature of doing business. These do not constitute legal advice.
- Small group sessions
Delivered by: Initio Law Clinic
These are small group sessions for startups legal support and advising. It will include advise on all manner of business structuring, with questions concerning legal needs and structures of owning or running a business..
- The Thrive Marketing Academy with Group Coaching and support
Delivered by: Pepper It Marketing
The Thrive Marketing Academy is a one-year group and private coaching and training program tailored to service-based businesses and private practice owners. The Academy provides participants with the marketing knowledge, tools and skills to grow their businesses with practical marketing tactics and strategies that work for the long term. You will learn the Thrive Marketing Method to know where to focus your efforts and time to create and implement your marketing consistently and in a way that takes less time, you attract more clients, and you build a Thriving Business. Your program includes 6 private sessions with Kathy C.
- Open Office Hours
Delivered by: Pepper It Marketing
A 1:1 one hour private opportunity for support and advice for entrepreneurs seeking support on sales prospecting and customer service tactics.
- Pitch Readiness
Delivered by: Investoready
This Program prepares start-up founders to win venture capital by focusing on the crucial Investor Question & Answer session. If you are or will soon be pitching your business, marketing your services, or promoting your company to potential partners? This program will train you to effectively differentiate your offering, leverage in-person workshop online role-play in a Simulation Console, and immediate unbiased, industry-agnostic feedback about the founders’ answers.
- Social media strategy development Workshop
Delivered by: Twirp Communications
This six-month mentorship is recommended as a follow-up to the Social Media Strategy Development Workshop to encourage follow-through and assist you in building your professional presence on your chosen platforms. Provides ongoing support for a small group of entrepreneurs as they develop, tweak, and implement their social media strategy.
- Customer Service Management
Delivered by: Mary Jane Copps Telephone Talent Inc. (The Phone Lady)
A solid understanding of excellent communication skills is essential for successfully validating any new business idea. In this program, participants will develop a clear understanding of confirmation bias and how to avoid it. They will be given the skills and tools to research their target market, reach thoroughly and interview industry experts/potential customers. This program will also provide participants with necessary skills and the creation of a blueprint of their customer-service mandate. Whether a business is new or well established, customer service excellence is essential for growth. When businesses deliver excellence they keep existing customers, increase referrals, and continually attract new customers. Service excellence involves communication skills for everything from answering a phone call to facilitating a video meeting, and from working with big emotions to dealing with constant talkers.
- Social Media Marketing Development Mentorship Program
Delivered by: Twirp Communications
This is a three-hour interactive workshop is designed to teach the fundamentals of setting up a manageable social media strategy for a small business. The focus will be on choosing content and strategies that you are ready willing and able to commit to without overwhelming already busy schedules. This workshop includes a co-branded printable/fillable workbook.
Your Commitment To Us
- Please clear your schedule to attend each training module.
- Please commit to the training and attend your sessions.
- Please arrive prepared for your training and arrive a few minutes early.
- Please actively participate in each session, becoming part of the "extended team" of other founders in the room.
- Please turn on your cameras during learning sessions to improve involvement
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