Would you like to start your own business?
Do you need ideas or support on keeping your business going?

This group will help you learn to make wise business decisions as you start or grow a business. Members learn key business skills such as identifying customer needs, finding customers, and keeping good business records.

Group Facilitator

Jake Lawrence
We will provide all the tools (best practices) and discuss challenges with solutions, as well as ideas to support a budding entrepreneur’s dreams (or a current business) to help turn them into reality.

Group Recommendations

My business partner and I were part of the first "Start and Grow Your Own Business" discussion group.  The lesson manual is nicely formatted and easy to use. The structure of having weekly follow up with other group members allows reporting of progress, but also allows for an independent evaluation from the other group members.  Group members overall developed a mutual desire to learn from others' experiences, as well as a desire to help others with their own experiences, concepts and suggestions. Additionally, there are many "thought starters" in the manual, to help address the various issues of starting and running your own business.  I would recommend the course to anyone planning to initiate self employment.
​-Bill English
 My husband Michael and I attended the Grow Your Own Business group. We found the curriculum to be well structured and the concepts easy to grasp. The best part of the class however, was the inspiration that we received on a weekly basis. As we studied and learned as a group, inspiration flowed in ways that we never anticipated for our businesses. The facilitator was sensitive to the students’ needs and brought in a guest speaker to answer some of our questions that the manual wasn’t able to cover. It was time well spent for us and the principle of writing daily in the journal has continued. The lessons are truly inspired and we highly recommend this group.
​-Susanne Mulvany