How do we take advantage of these trying times and turn them into opportunities? It takes focused leadership and engaged employees with team spirit to make good things happen. Oftentimes, it takes an objective business coach or facilitator to help you ask the right questions in meeting the ultimate challenge of our day: "what now?" As innovative business leaders and project managers, we go beyond the mere survival mode to help you realize how to reveal insights, develop ideas, launch new products, and find better ways to serve your customers. 

If you're a business owner and/or entrepreneur seeking to grow, then start working with us. The Small Business Development Center at Johnson & Wales University can help you shape your strategy, solve your core problems, and facilitate your action plan. Our counselors and trainers provide the fundamental support you may need to reveal and seize the business opportunities that may be hidden within yourself, your customers, your employees and/or your peers. 

We help you take it to the next level by facilitating connections to a resource network of business coaches, management consultants and peer groups. Our hard-working collegial approach has a proven track record that keeps improving every day through each one of our business relationships. We work both one-on-one with clients as well as in group workshops to help you get to where you want to go in the business world. 

Working with over 5,000 entrepreneurs over the past two years has produced significant results: $92.5M total client sales; $15.3M total capital assets; 1,020 total jobs; and an estimated $5.79M in tax payments. Our service model also works well for Rhode Island's university students. JWU and other university students deliver an array of valuable services including market research, marketing collateral and website enhancements. 

Our success is measured by your goal achievement: to secure capital, increase sales, improve productivity, solve problems, sustain profits, and build your loyal customer base. My colleagues and I look forward to working with you and becoming part of your success. 

John Cronin

State Director

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