We help small businesses, diversity suppliers, entrepreneur educators and supplier inclusion teams
simplify business growth strategies
with our comprehensive, proprietary, and award-winning GUIDED Business Plan™ training platform that can guide someone to start, scale and become a government/corporate supplier.
Try our GUIDED approach for yourself — live workshops, on-demand course and cohorts!
Our Praise
"If Melanie designed the program, it has to be good."
"Melanie has provided training for more than 10 years with the companies I've been involved with. So many client compliments."
"Melanie has been a driving force in Suburban’s overall Supplier Diversity success. She eliminates pain points for both the vendor and utility, which adds to a more lucrative RFP process by ensuring diverse vendors are prepared.”
“I have known Melanie for many years and have been impressed with all of the different projects she is constantly involved in.”
"Absolutely fabulous working with Melanie!"
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Supplier Diversity Programs - Vendor Mentoring
Reach your goals faster by registering for online work sessions and on-demand courses.
Engage your small business clients at various development stages with our GUIDED Business Plan books and digital materials – our clients have attracted millions from sponsors and donors.
Our GUIDED Business Plan™ books for small business owners are the cornerstone of our small business training programs and courses that entrepreneur educators license to teach thousands of businesses.
Supplier diversity programs continuing to evolve and we do too providing diversity supplier mentoring to accelerate introductions to buyers to increase diverse spend.
With trillions in government contracts, microenterprises and small businesses need Capability Statements and we offer business advising, strategy sessions, group feedback sessions and on-demand courses for capabilities statements.
We love creating BEFORE and AFTER transformations with our small business consulting services that range from pitching to corporate buyers to “getting unstuck” to finding new revenue streams.
We help small business advisors increase their revenue with our small business classroom training materials and business coaching workbooks.
Our instructional design services are “world class” as a Fortune 50 supplier diversity practitioner stated. As entrepreneur education curriculum developers, we have guided thousands of businesses with our books and classroom training materials.
Public speaking – we facilitate engaging virtual “work sessions”. Our signature topics are Capabilities Statements, ESG and Sustainability, and ERG Innovation Discovery.
Curricula consultation? Learning design? Online course feedback? Small business training and supplier diversity programs? We are all things entrepreneur education.
“Inspiring economic independence and equality through entrepreneurship."
GUIDED Plan with Peers™
Join today to fast-track creating your proposal toolkit. Government contracts? Corporate clients? MBE/WBE certification? Prepare for larger contracts with a Guide!
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GUIDED Capabilities Statement Tutorial
“Know What We Know” Eblasts
Motivation Moments
Time saving app spotlights
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$
500
Prep for opportunities with mini-activities
Get over challenges with group feedback
Build your confidence for larger contracts
40% discount for online classes
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ALL-IN (COHORT)
Pursuing 5- or 6-figure contracts?
$
5,000
Proposal toolkit development to impress buyers
Group work sessions with instant feedback
Replays of missed Work Session content
Accountability group to reach goals faster
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