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with a New Perspective

Consulting and Small Groups for Established Businesses

Small business consultant
Business continuity plans for diverse vendors

Our Diverse Certifications

We are entrepreneur educators’ educator.

We write books and create 2-hour to 36-hour courses for them to teach small business owners.

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Some of Our Projects

Walgreens sponsors a GUIDED Business Plan course

Walgreens sponsors WBENC RPO to refine small CGPs’ pitches to mass retailers

Consumer goods manufacturers (CPGs) who currently sell in retail stores were mentored by retail industry executives for 7-weeks based on the GUIDED Business Plan | Top Shelf Retail book.

SoCalGas supports business continuity

SoCalGas focused on business continuity in 2018

SoCalGas offered its suppliers a series of workshops to hedge against business disruption. Melanie facilitated discussions about disaster preparedness, cyber attacks and re-bounding strategies based on our GUIDED Business Plan™ | Protect the Customer book.

California Water Association retaains Guided Business Plan for cohort-based training

California Water Association invests in diverse businesses

In 2019, seven investor-owned water utilities in CA committed more than 280 personnel hours to group mentor CPUC-certified companies that wanted to pursue contracts in the water industry. They retained Guided Business Plan to develop the […]

Guided Business Plan provides books to PTACs for advising sessions for government contracting

Chicago PTAC accelerates prep for city and state contracts

“Melanie Rae’s book, which allows them to follow the in class conversations is a win! The book encourages a lot of brainstorming and research activities, again keeping them engaged in and out of class. “ J. […]

MWD opened Boardroom for diverse businesses to connect to their buyers

Metropolitan Water District of So Cal’s business outreach team were conduits for closed deals at a GUIDED Sub-Contracting Plan™ workshop at their headquarters in 2015.

WBDC and GBP develop EMBA - a coure to expand business access

EMBA: An Introduction to Government and Corporate Contracting

With support from The Fund for Equitable Business Growth, the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC) and Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council commissioned us to create a city-wide program to introduce corporate and government contracting opportunities to […]

Scott Vowels PhD

GBP connects with Supplier Diversity Professionals

”I have known Melanie for many years and have been impressed with all of the different projects she is constantly involved in. I have been particularly impressed with the programs she has created tailored to the Veteran business community. Melanie has authored several training manuals. workbooks and etc. focused on MWDVBE development.”

Scott Vowels, PhD | Author, Hacking Supplier Diversity

Supplier Diversity, Apple

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