Welcome to our exciting lineup of Fall Courses! We’re thrilled that you’re interested in expanding your knowledge and skills with the Leveling It Up program By CEED.
Now is your chance & time is running out! You don’t want to miss out on this amazing opportunity so make sure to register for your courses ASAP.
Only eligible LIU participants can enroll for these Leveling It Up programs/workshops for FREE.
This course will teach participants all the skills needed to build and customize their own WordPress site for their business. By the end of the course, the participants will have set up and created their own basic, informational WordPress website along with their hosting account and domain registration with Bluehost. Eager participants can finish the project and have an operational website if ready to finalize and add their branding and copy.
This twelve week training and coaching program is designed to support and empower women entrepreneurs in achieving their business goals by increasing competencies and confidence for presenting online and in person. Please note that registrations are now closed.
This training 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.
This is a seven week live 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.
A five week experiential course tailored as an introduction to Venture Capital concepts. You will learn and asses funding sources, founder funding journey, venture capital fit, inside venture capital firms, how to evaluate a venture capital partner and due diligences for pitch readiness.
In this half-day workshop, 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 and reach thoroughly and interview industry experts/potential customers.
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.
This course focuses on essential entrepreneurship components for diverse and intersectional Canadian women: empowerment, vision development, business navigation, overcoming obstacles, and funding acquisition. Participants will learn to formulate personal and business visions, set impactful objectives, understand economic dynamics, identify market opportunities, tackle gender-specific challenges, and leverage success narratives. Additionally, they will gain insights into diverse funding mechanisms and receive guidance for successful grant applications, empowering them to thrive in the Canadian business landscape.
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.
This 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.
In this full-day workshop, participants will identify the number of 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 will sell and learn the necessary communication skills to consistently create revenue.
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.
This half-day workshop will provide the necessary skills and create a blueprint for your customer service mandate. This program will also provide participants with the necessary skills and the creation of a blueprint for 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 from answering a phone call to facilitating a video meeting, and from working with big emotions to dealing with constant talkers.
This is a 1:1 coaching session focused on restorative conflict resolution providing practical guidance and support for hard conversations with employees or clients, planning for uncomfortable but necessary change and organizational transitions, pains in leadership and team disconnects, navigating difficult relationships with clients or employees, finding balance and resilience in periods of high stress.
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.
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.
Includes a one-hour private session. This is a written marketing audit of one marketing asset of your business to outline the steps you need to take to strengthen your niche, offer and message clarity. 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.
1. Open Office Hours with The Phone Lady:
Time: 1:1, based on your availability
This is a one-hour private opportunity for support and advice for entrepreneurs seeking support on sales, prospecting, and customer service tactics.
Time: 1:1, based on your availability
A 1-year membership to Technology and Innovation Law Clinic services (incorporation, business structuring, liability advice, contract review and drafting, privacy assessments, etc.)
Date(s): Fall 2024 (holds every Friday)
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am Atlantic Time
This is a weekly group session 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.