Benefits of Membership

Welcome to NAWBO NYC, an organization specifically designed to fuel the success of over 350,000 women-owned businesses which generate more than $50 billion in revenue each year.

NAWBO NYC and NAWBO National provide a host of exclusive member benefits that will help you support and grow your business. Be sure that you are taking full advantage of our extensive member offers through partnerships, discounts, and opportunities to showcase your business and your expertise.

NAWBO NYC Social Media Accounts

Website Opportunities

Member Directory
NAWBO NYC Blog
NAWBO National Directory
Public Policy & Advocacy
Publicity Opportunities: NAWBO NYC Speakers Bureau and Volunteer Opportunities

BUSINESS EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

Networking

NAWBO offers women business owners a national and local platform to tap into the power of an established community of women entrepreneurs.
Our NAWBO NYC events and online communications and groups promote interconnectedness between members to leverage the evolving, more networked, business environment – both in NYC and when visiting other chapter cities. We warmly welcome new members and encourage relationships among our growing community.

Mastermind Groups

We all need ongoing support as entrepreneurs. In this monthly meeting, your group of women business owner peers shares problems, successes, ask advice and help develop solutions on a confidential basis. NAWBO NYC Mastermind Groups launch on a rotational basis. Premier/ Established members interested in participating should email us.

Mentorship Programs

The NAWBO NYC Mentoring Program was created to help women business owners achieve excellent results in their businesses and their lives. Our members have experienced the power and enjoyment of receiving personal support from qualified women business owners that lead to breakthroughs, strengthen business acumen and gain confidence in their leadership skills. Interested Mentees and Mentors, find our more about the program, application, and deadlines.

PROGRAMMING

Our programs are mostly educational and focus on members’ needs to support their successful business growth.
Programs encompass morning, lunchtime and evening events, typically starting with networking followed by an expert speaker sharing insights and answering questions on topics including leadership, sales, marketing, finance, and public policy; plus programs on work/life balance, time management, health and other topics of interest to our members.
Click here to see some of our past events, and register for our next event so you can experience it and meet some of our great community members.

NAWBO OFFERS

NAWBO Partner Offers

NAWBO’s national corporate sponsors and affiliate partners offer discounts and benefits every month that deliver significant bottom-line savings to all members.
Premier members get exclusive benefits from NAWBO partners.
NAWBO NYC continues to develop more local benefits to suit our members’ needs. Click here to email us additional suggestions.

COMMUNICATIONS

NAWBO provides a rich variety of online newsletters, tools and social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to give women pertinent information to help them understand the marketplace and grow their businesses.

Member Spotlight

Member Spotlights for Premier/Established members. It’s ALL about YOU!!! Email Tania Sterl, and she will send you the format to follow.

Success & Stories

Share your accomplishments. Send them, with photos if you have them, to info@nawbonyc.org.

Facebook NAWBO NYC

NAWBO NYC Facebook page allows members and non-members to learn more about NAWBO NYC, our events, and offerings.

Facebook NAWBO NYC Members Only Group

Need to ask for some urgent advice or recommendations, post some news, or find resources? The Members Only group is a private area for NAWBO NYC members to receive and share help. Join our Members Only group on Facebook. Click here to join.

Twitter

Keep up-to-date with event notices, news and more via NAWBO NYC’s Twitter account.

NAWBO NYC LinkedIn is where you can share posts, news, and resources.

WEBSITE OPPORTUNITIES

NAWBO National Directory

NAWBO’s national directory allows members to connect country-wide for business development purposes and to network when traveling. Go to http://www.nawbo.org, log in to your account and navigate to the Directory.

PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY

NAWBO represents a united voice on issues that impact women-owned and small businesses daily. NAWBO provides members with information about current legislation affecting women-owned businesses and serves as a vehicle for exercising political influence through action – at national and local levels.

National Conference

NAWBO’s Women’s Business Conference provides women with personal and professional business development opportunities to take their businesses to the next level of success. The annual conference brings together owners of businesses of all sizes from all industries to celebrate and leverage the collective power of the fastest growing segment of the economy—women entrepreneurs. This year, the annual conference will be in Jacksonville, Florida. Come and join us and meet hundreds of women business owners.

PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITIES

NAWBO NYC’s Speakers Bureau

Interested in sharing your expertise at events sponsored by NAWBO NYC and/or other organizations that approach us for recommendations? NAWBO NYC’s Speakers Bureau is seeking your application. Click here to fill out the form. Note: NAWBO NYC Premier members are given priority.

Volunteers Welcomed!!

Volunteering is a win/win – it helps you play a bigger part in your community, develop new skills, meet new people and feel more confident! Come and volunteer for one of our current or upcoming initiatives. We have specific short and longer-term projects that can fit anyone’s availability and schedule. Let us know your interests.

Upcoming Events

january

06jan5:00 pm5:45 pmJanuary New Member Orientation CallPart of the New Member 30-Day Challenge

09jan5:00 pm6:00 pmVirtual Connect & Learn: Building Relationships Through Networking

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Business is built on relationships, not 30-second commercials. Your ability to connect with people is essential to developing profitable relationships. You’re aware that people do business with those they know, like and trust; yet you struggle with maintaining good relationships with your connections -relationships that result in a referral or client. Not many people were taught how to network for business. They simply show up and pass out business cards without having a plan or strategy for building relationships. Women business owners are natural collaborators and connectors; but with a strategic approach to deepening relationships they can be more productive, effective and build a high net worth network. This session is essential for NAWBO members and leaders who want to strengthen relationships with members, sponsors and the business community. Tarsha Polk, helps attendees move beyond passing out a business card to strategically building successful networking relationships.

Key Takeaways

Learn the skills you need to build business relationships.
Strategies for developing and nurturing relationships.
Ways to leverage your contacts to gain contracts.

Presented by Tarsha Polk, NAWBO DFW

Tarsha Polk, The Marketing Lady™ is an award-winning entrepreneur, author of the book, Making an Impact: How to Build a Powerful Personal Brand and Beyond the Business Card: Strategic Networking for Success. She is the immediate-past president of the Dallas/Ft. Worth chapter and under her leadership, the chapter grew from small chapter size to medium. She is a personal brand strategist, marketing coach and professional speaker who is passionate about empowering people to make an impact in business and increase their income. With over 20 years of marketing experience and 16 years as an entrepreneur, Tarsha has helped hundreds of small business owners, corporate professionals, and non-profits succeed!

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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14jan8:00 am10:30 amFeaturedJanuary Facilitated Breakfast Networking: Curated ConversationsCurated Conversations With Women Business Owners

20jan6:00 pm8:00 pmWomen in Business BitesNetworking

21jan12:00 pm1:00 pmManaging Cash Flow for Growth

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This webinar, presented by Wells Fargo, will take a look at managing cash flow with an emphasis on growing your business. A representative from Wells Fargo, as well as the owner of Advocations will discuss ways that may help you take control of your cash flow and create safeguards to keep cash flow positive.

Key take aways:

Key areas of managing cash flow
Cash flow and the business lifecycle
Evaluating your credit choices

Lindsey Braciale, Founder of Advocations

Lindsey Braciale is a social entrepreneur that started Advocations in 2009 to amplify the way companies source, hire, and retain talent with disabilities. In 2015, Advocations’ narrowed their focus to autism and expanded services to Fortune 500 customers including Wells Fargo, Meijer, Boston Scientific, Ally Bank, etc. In 2017, Advocations received a national award from the Small Business Administration/SCORE for generating $153,000,000/year in earned income for a population often counted out of the workforce.

For personal and professional reasons, Lindsey is doubling down on the Charlotte Region. Currently, Charlotte is ranked 160 out of 182 cities for people with disabilities and it’s time we close the gap and make “not” “able,” Notable. How will we do it? There is a need to provide a modern, inclusive, centralized, just-in-time resource for job seekers (with and without disabilities) and employers, so we are going to flip the script a bit and create a workforce development 1-stop in a coffee shop. Lindsey is currently helping the 501c3 Make It Work build out a hub for social impact at the Brooklyn Collective in uptown and is looking for partners to make this a reality.

Lindsey holds a Cognitive Science degree from the University of Virginia, Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling from the Medical College of Virginia, and attends the Executive Program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

Val Jones, Wells Fargo

Val Jones runs the Small Business customer segment strategy for Wells Fargo retail banking in Texas. As a 19 year banking veteran, Jones has focused her time and energy on providing information, resources and tools to help small business owners feel empowered and knowledgeable about their finances. Jones serves on the National Advisory Council for NAWBO.

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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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february

03feb5:00 pm5:45 pmFebruary New Member Orientation CallPart of the New Member 30-Day Challenge

04feb12:00 pm1:30 pmFebruary Lunch & Learn: Balance Your Personal Life with Your Professional Passionswith Speaker Danielle Gelfand

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Modern dating and finding love in New York City can feel overwhelming, especially for us, professional women!! So many of us have careers we are passionate about, but which can also be incredibly demanding on our time. It is also so easy to become disheartened, especially in the era of swipe culture, and give up, or take long breaks. Often, this is done by retreating into our professional lives.

So this month we are hosting Danielle Gelfand, dating coach and online dating expert & founder of www.mydatingcoach.nyc. She is going to share 10 easy strategies for making love a priority in a way that is “live-able” and sustainable in everyday life, even with the most difficult of schedules. Topics covered include ways of meeting people in real life, the secrets of successful online dating, and communicating online and off.

This talk is for all singles, regardless of where they are on their dating journey: feeling “stuck” in the world of online dating and apps, re-entering the dating world after many years, or are ready to date but not sure where to begin.

Our Speaker:

Danielle Gelfand is an NYC based dating coach, online dating expert, and founder of www.mydatingcoach.nyc. Danielle knows firsthand how challenging dating can be from her own single years searching for love in New York City while navigating her career as a television network executive producer. After meeting her husband in her 40’s, Danielle launched

My Dating Coach to help other singles who shared her dating struggles by providing clients with a personalized road map to finding love, as well as empathetic, expert coaching along the way. Danielle has coached many singles to successfully find the love of their life.

Danielle is also a television executive producer and writer who develops hit programming around the subject of dating and relationships, including the VH1 series “Why Am I Still Single?” In addition to VH1, her television work has also been featured on MTV, Lifetime, Discovery, and NBC, and her personal essays have been published in The New York Times and Salon.com. Danielle graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in Communication Arts and English. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Special thanks to our venue sponsor:

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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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05febAll DayNAWBO Leadership Academy - Reception

06febAll DayNAWBO Leadership Academy - Winter 2020

06febAll DayeLearning Series: Leveraging Purchasing Power of Anchor Institutions for your Business

07febAll DayNAWBO Circle RSVP Registration

07feb1:00 am1:00 amNAWBO Circle RSVP Registration

11feb8:00 am10:00 amFeaturedFebruary Facilitated Breakfast Networking: MastermindingProblem Solving With Women Business Owners

13feb5:00 pm6:00 pmVirtual Connect & Learn: When Generations Collide – Better Communication Strategies

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We tend to show up as we are, regardless of who we are meeting with. We assume that everyone is like we are. How often has someone started talking about politics to you, assuming that you are in their party, but you aren’t? How often do we put our foot in our mouth because of our assumptions?

To successfully influence others, we need to be intentional about who is sitting across the table from us and how we approach them. The first step is being self-aware, and then having a toolkit to learn to read and estimate others. Once we have a basic picture, we need to tailor our behavior and communication to meet them where they are. This is the best way to influence others. It is important in all areas of our lives, but this session will concentrate on meeting your prospects and clients where they are.

You will take away:

A broad view of the five factors of personality that academics and psychologists use as their standard
Very specific behaviors to look for in your prospects and clients
Very specific strategies to employ when communicating and influencing your prospects and clients.

Presented by Caryn Lee – NAWBO Charlotte

Narrative founder Caryn Lee is – first and foremost – a business person. In the sometimes “touchy feely” world of leadership development, coaching, personality assessments, and training, Caryn maintains a laser focus on real-world solutions that improve profitability. Her

deep business background, coupled with her technology expertise, helps her bring a fresh perspective to Narrative and enables her to pursue her greatest passions: making businesses more profitable and helping people become more successful and satisfied in their professional lives.

Caryn founded Narrative in 2014, a consulting firm improving business performance through coaching, consulting, training, and certification of the Narrative Big Five Self-Assessment. She founded Narrative after a successful 15-year career with Accenture, followed by 10 years with a small company that published a Big Five personality assessment.

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST

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17feb6:00 pm8:00 pmWomen in Business BitesNetworking

18feb12:00 pm1:00 pmFebruary Advocacy Call: Meeting Your Advocacy Goals

24feb7:30 pm10:30 pmBizwomen Mentoring Monday

march

10mar8:00 am10:00 amFeaturedMarch Facilitated Breakfast Networking: Curated ConversationsCurated Conversations With Women Business Owners

10mar4:00 pm4:30 pmWhy NAWBO!

12mar5:00 pm6:00 pmVirtual Connect & Learn: Transform Your Thinking to Positively Impact Business Results

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“Neuroscience has revealed that when we make decisions, we’re not always in charge… and that listening to your gut is critical to the collaboration between emotion and reason in the brain” (Harvard Business Review, Special Issue, January 2019). However, as women entrepreneurs, oftentimes we are told how to express and present ourselves, often ignoring the wisdom we carry within us. Furthermore, powerful cultural messages reinforce some of our negative self-talk while we struggle to balance what we know to be instinctively true with acceptable social behaviors.

In this interactive webinar, you will:

Explore ten dimensions that women consistently take into account while making business decisions.
Review the principles of a unique, empowering model called WISDOM™: Women Influencing Self-Directed Outward Motion.
Evaluate the impact that your thinking has on your business.
Come up with at least two concrete actions to transform your business results.

As a leader, you want to utilize all available tools to successfully grow your company. Sometimes the most simple changes have the greatest impact! Raising your awareness of your internal dialogue and working on how you express these thoughts become the first steps toward creating a more profitable business.

Presented by Eugenia Lunden, NAWBO Silicon Valley
Founder and CEO of Lunden International LLC – a certified woman and minority-owned business

Eugenia is award-winning innovator who has been positively impacting the performance and culture of many organizations through creating and transforming workplace programs. She has a Masters of Counseling degree and has held numerous executivepositions prior to becoming a small business owner. Her professional skills, leadership, and career advancement programs have been internationally recognized as Best-of-Class. She supports her clients through providing customized solutions and her own unique creations, such as WISDOM™coaching and workshops and the Technology 101 for New Business Owners program. Eugenia is honored to serve on the Board of NAWBO Silicon Valley as Director of Marketing and Social Media.

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST

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Benefits of Membership

Welcome to NAWBO NYC, an organization specifically designed to fuel the success of over 350,000 women-owned businesses which generate more than $50 billion in revenue each year.

BUSINESS EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

Networking

Mastermind Groups

Mentorship Programs

PROGRAMMING

NAWBO OFFERS

NAWBO Partner Offers

COMMUNICATIONS

Biweekly Newsletter: Member Spotlight and Successes & Stories

Member Spotlight

Success & Stories

NAWBO NYC SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook NAWBO NYC

Facebook NAWBO NYC Members Only Group

Twitter

LinkedIn

WEBSITE OPPORTUNITIES

NAWBO National Directory

PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY

National Conference

PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITIES

NAWBO NYC’s Speakers Bureau

Volunteers Welcomed!!

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NAWBO Leadership Academy February 6, 2020 Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town

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NAWBO Leadership Academy
February 6, 2020
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town