After a three-month hiatus, VSEDC is back with new business courses, fueled by our CEO Jazz Keyes’ expertise and energy. We started the year listening to our community and are now delivering on what we learned from you.
Our first six courses of the year offer best practices and real life applications in the areas of AI for small business, launching or growing a non-profit, sales strategies, clean workflows to optimize your time and energy, addressing the challenges of navigating your business as a woman entrepreneur, and identifying a quick fix that will shift your business toward improved productivity.
If any of these sound like the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for, dive into the details below. Our programs are always free for our community.
AI Power Tools for Entrepreneurs
Monday, February 23
5:30p – 8p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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AI is about removing busywork that’s slowing you down. This workshop shows entrepreneurs how to use AI as a digital assistant to write, plan, analyze, organize, and create content so you can focus on the work that actually makes you money – real tools that save time and help you move faster.
The AI Power Tools for Entrepreneurs workshop will teach you how to:
✔ integrate AI into daily operations
✔ generate content and messaging faster
✔ build templates and workflows
✔ automate administrative tasks
✔ support sales, customer service & marketing
✔ analyze information and make smarter decisions
✔ identify what should NOT be automated
✔ avoid common AI pitfalls for small business
Money Mission & Momentum (Running a non-profit)
February 24, 25 and 26 (3 session series)
5:30p-8p
Instructor: Dr. Sharon Elephant
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Capital is what keeps the lights on. Running a nonprofit requires money, infrastructure, and compliance. Fund the Mision trains nonprofit leaders to prepare, secure, and manage funding through grants, donors, and institutional relationships. Learn how funders evaluate proposals, align budgets with program goals, and build internal systems that keep organizations compliant and fundable. You will also learn how find grants that align with their mission and workshop a real proposal in our Grant Writing Lab, which walks participants step-by-step through an actual application so they leave with what they need to get funded.
The Money Mission & Momentum three-part series will teach you how to:
✔ Clarify and refine a mission that funders understand and support
✔ Develop a confident, fundable 60-second pitch
✔ Turn ideas into clearly defined, money-ready programs
✔ Connect programs to outcomes, costs, and funding opportunities
✔ Identify sustainable revenue streams beyond grants
✔ Create a practical roadmap toward financial stability
From Hustle to Flow
Tuesday, March 3
5:30p – 8p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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From Hustle to Flow shows entrepreneurs how to turn raw hustle into clean workflows, time blocks, and basic business systems. If you have been operating on panic, scrambling and chaos, come to learn to work smarter and get paid cleaner.
The Hustle to Flow workshop will teach you how to:
✔ Identify operational bottlenecks
✔ Learn simple workflows that remove chaos
✔ Understand prioritization vs. busywork
✔ Improve consistency and follow-through
Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed (aka Sales)
Wednesdays, March 4, 11 and 18
5:30p – 8p
Instructor: Derrick Brew
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Selling is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs. Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed teaches founders how to talk about their offer, ask for the sale, and sell themselves without apology. This workshop trains entrepreneurs to speak with confidence, articulate value, and close a deal with real belief in their product.
The Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed three-part series will teach entrepreneurs to:
✔ Learn how to describe your offer clearly
✔ Practice asking for money without shrinking
✔ Understand value vs. features vs. pricing
✔ Make a real sales ask during the workshop
In Her Power
Wednesday, March 4, Orientation
Wednesdays, March 11th – April 14th (6 session cohort)
5:30p – 8p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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Entrepreneur longevity requires more than revenue — it requires regulated leadership, financial confidence, and operational sustainability. This program equips women founders with the tools to strengthen CEO identity, align mindset with money, and build systems that support energy, focus, and high-performance execution. Participants will develop practical burnout-prevention strategies, improve emotional regulation in leadership and sales environments, and implement pricing and value frameworks that increase confidence and financial stewardship. Through structured peer mastermind engagement, founders will expand their support network while building a personalized CEO action plan designed for long-term business resilience and growth.
The In Her Power six-week cohort will teach you how to:
✔ Reframe wellness as a business strategy for longevity and execution
✔ Develop emotional and nervous system regulation techniques for high performance
✔ Strengthen identity and confidence as a woman CEO with agency, boundaries, and decision-making power
✔ Apply mindset + money alignment tools to pricing, value, stewardship, and self-worth
✔ Build burnout-prevention practices and nervous system regulation strategies for high-performance moments
✔ Recognize personal capacity limits and design systems that support energy, focus, and intentional recovery
✔ Navigate the emotional load of entrepreneurship with community rather than isolation
✔ Engage in a peer mastermind to co-strategize challenges, share resources, and expand possibility
✔ Access wellness modalities that support long-term entrepreneurial longevity, not just symptom relief
New Lunch & Learn Workshop below!
Quick Fix, Big Shift
Thursday, March 5
12p – 1:30p
Instructor: Jazz Keyes
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One clean fix can improve speed, reduce cost, or increase conversions — and most businesses are sitting on those quick wins. Small problems cost real money. Quick Fix, Big Shift is a live improvement lab where founders identify one operational bottleneck and fix it during the session.
The Quick Fix, Big Shift Lunch & Learn workshop will teach you how to:
✔ Diagnose operational friction
✔ Apply improvement framework in real time
✔ Increase efficiency or revenue with one fix
✔ Build a habit of iterative improvement
VSEDC’s small business and entrepreneur curriculum is presented by VSEDC’s SBA Women’s Business Center, and made possible by a generous grant from Citi Foundation, as well as funding from Wells Fargo, Comerica, Columbia Bank, and Citizens Business Bank.
All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.
