Imagine this: you are in a room with some of the Bay Area's most talented advisors. Everyone rallies around you, and brainstorms ways to grow your business. You leave feeling focused and supported in taking bold next steps to move your business to the next level.
The BABAC Roundtable is a one-time, complimentary 1.5-hour brainstorming session offered to entrepreneurs eager to tap onto expert brain power from 6 to 8 advisors representing critical business areas. The entrepreneur shares his top business challenges and opportunities, the advisors listen and respond with creative ideas, questions and suggestions for helping move their business to the next level. The entrepreneur often walks away feeling energized and full of possibilities for growing their business… and, it’s fun!
Founded in 2003, BABAC is a non-profit virtual advisory board for aspiring entrepreneurs. The board is represented by successful practitioners skilled in critical business functions such as legal, finance, banking, risk management, human resources, branding & marketing, and leadership & organizational development. While these consultants fetch premium billings in their full-time jobs, they give fully of themselves on a no-cost basis during our BABAC Roundtables.
BABAC has a limited number of slots for hosting clients during the year, generally hosting one client per month. Contact Elyse at 415.469.7460 for more information on applying for a Roundtable Session.
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The BABAC Growth Strategy Café
January 31, 2007
As you returned to work in 2007 you no doubt took a look at 2006 and
what the year meant to you and your business. Did you achieve what you
set out to achieve? What is in store as you look forward in 2007? Such
a look can either be as if staring down a long road of obstacles, or
stepping onto a thoughtfully produced path. BABAC aims to help its
members and its members’ clients create that path.
With that in mind, BABAC is hosting its 2nd Annual Growth Strategy Café to kick off 2007.
We are playing with a concept that’s been around for a while – the
“World Café.” Have you heard of this concept? World Café conversations
are an intentional way to create a living network of conversation
around questions that matter. The World Café is a metaphor. A Café
conversation is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue,
sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action. What better
way to appreciate the importance of discovering shared meaning and
bringing forth the future, than coming together to collectively discuss
what we hope to achieve in 2007?
In our version of the World Café – the BABAC Growth Strategy Café – we
will gather 8 BABAC members and 30 to 35 of our clients to collectively
discuss growth strategy for 2007.
Our conversation will center on the theme of ‘right growth.’ In our
culture we often receive the message that, in business and everywhere
else, bigger and faster is better, leading us to chase any and all
growth. Assuming not all growth represents ‘right growth,’ what does
right growth or sustainable growth look like in your business? In
discussing this, we’ll consider the measures, the foundation necessary
to support growth, values, sustainability, effect on family and
friends, and learnings from 2006.