C200’s membership includes the world’s leading women corporate executives and entrepreneurs, who understand first-hand the adversities that come with being a woman in business, especially in entrepreneurship.
Only 1.7% of women-owned businesses have revenues over $1M, and 88% are below $100K. Even further disparities exist once comparing white women-owned businesses to those owned by women of color.
Through research and the shared real-life experiences of our entrepreneurial members, we at C200 know that women entrepreneurs greatly benefit from access to a peer network and mentors, educational opportunities to enhance their business acumen, and access to funding. We created C200’s CHAMPION Program to offer women entrepreneurs just that.
C200’s CHAMPION Program Participants receive access to:
C200 Members, will you help make a positive impact on the leading women entrepreneurs of tomorrow?
It’s no secret that having the right mentor or coach can change the business trajectory for an entrepreneur. One component of our CHAMPION Program pairs participants with C200 members to advise, teach, and develop the women into stronger business leaders and more successful entrepreneurs.
Click on the volunteer categories to see their descriptions and time commitment. Then, click the VOLUNTEER button below to submit an interest form. Thank you!
Coach
Coaches serve as role models who support the entrepreneurs throughout the process by validating their ideas and providing them with the tools and skills necessary to pivot and scale their ventures. Coaches will serve as their sounding board, provide guidance and accountability, and be their confidante as they mature as entrepreneurs. Time Commitment: 2 hours per month between February 1 and May 5.
Mastermind Expert
Mastermind groups meet three times during the 12–weeks of the WIN Global Lab program
Tuesday, March 1st – 6-8pm EST
Tuesday, March 29th– 6-8pm EST
Tuesday, April 26th -6-8pm EST
Each group includes you and a fellow expert with 3 – 4 entrepreneurs operating in a similar stage or industry. Designed to leverage collective intelligence and peer accountability, the group serves as a critical sounding board that provides customized feedback to members. Mastermind group meetings follow the program’s milestone path, requiring entrepreneurs to present progress to their goals in the following categories: marketing and sales, funding for scale, and social/human capital and traction. Time Commitment: Approximately 8 hours over the 12–weeks
Topic Expert
Topic experts work with entrepreneurs to support them in a particular area. Topics could include marketing, securing financing, pitching, and general business strategy, just to name a few. Through 40–minute office hour sessions, topic experts speak with entrepreneurs about their ventures and ideas and provide them with guidance to pivot and scale their ventures. Time Commitment: 2 hours and 15 minutes
Meet the 2022 CHAMPION Cohort!
Maya Adams of Taylor's Tacos
Co-Founder
Taylor’s Tacos is a pop-up catering company located in Chicago that specializes in authentic street style tacos with a whole lot of soul. They offer large-scale event catering, taco trays, and individual meals. Taylor’s Tacos believes in interaction, connection, and qualiTAY experiences.
Lilianna Aguilar of Solutions Cleaning Services
President-Owner
Solutions Cleaning Services is a full-service cleaning company that provides high-quality construction cleaning and post-construction cleaning services at an affordable price to businesses of all sizes. Their clients include construction companies, construction sites, developers, general contractors, restaurants, real estate companies, retailers, commercial office buildings, airports, vacant spaces, retail buildings, corporate offices, and more.
Alice Cherng of Dear Bella Creamery
Founder & CEO
Dear Bella Creamery is a premium, all-natural plant-based ice cream shop in Los Angeles, focused on high-quality ingredients and creative flavors that satisfy sweet tooth cravings and inspire moments of connectivity and joy. Their bold flavors are inspired by classic favorites, childhood memories, and their Taiwanese heritage.
Karen Clarke-Bennett of A Better You, LLC
Founder, Medical Director
A Better You is a health and wellness company focused on helping their patients look better, feel better, and function better. They offer general medical care with health promotion and disease prevention as the cornerstone of their treatment goals. A Better You is committed to offering the highest levels of patient care, making them the one-stop-shop for beauty, health, and wellness. work.
Angel Cornelius of Maison 276
Founder and CEO
Maison 276 is a nationally recognized and distributed beauty brand for middle-aged women that celebrates everyone’s unique version of beauty. They specifically address the naturally occurring changes in a woman’s maturing body with innovative, clean, and vibrant products that include hair care, body care, and skincare. Maison 276 is where your beauty lives.
Naomi Crellin of Storycraft LAB
Founder & CEO
Storycraft LAB is a creative startup that designs communicative experiential environments. Their work is both process and product – facilitating the development and shaping the delivery of creative strategies for the experiential industry. Through workshops, focus groups, and facilitated ideation, they help identify the narratives for exhibits, events, and conventions, that help messages resonate with audiences beyond a singular moment in time.
Gianne Doherty of Organic Bath Co.
Co-Founder
Organic Bath Co. specializes in organic skin and body care their customers can feel good about using. Their award-winning bath and body line is clean, safe, effective, and easy to use. Organic Bath Co. is committed to advocating for health, wellness, and accessible, safe skincare.
Tammy Dowley-Blackman of Tammy Dowley-Blackman Group, LLC
Founder and CEO
Tammy Dowley–Blackman Group LLC focuses on building companies with an innovative approach to leadership and organizational development. With two decades of cross-sector experience, Tammy Dowley–Blackman offers a universal and knowledgeable opportunity for growth with consulting, leadership development, and actionable workforce solutions.
Betsy Guerra of Better with Betsy
Founder and CEO
Better with Betsy is a heart-centered private practice of competent professionals devoted to helping the community overcome adversity, transform their struggles into strengths, and become a better version of themselves. They offer coaching and psychotherapy, as well as innovative group programs that elevate participants’ self-worth, leadership skills, emotional intelligence, spirituality, healthy habits, and interpersonal relationships.
Marie Incontrera of Incontrera Consulting, LLC
Founder, CEO
Incontrera Consulting is a digital marketing and thought leadership company focused on helping individuals and small businesses leverage their big ideas in online spaces. Their services include social media consulting, podcast booking, podcast production, TEDx speaker consulting, general speaker consulting, graphic design, event PR coordination, and more.
Aimee Iverson of Rose City Sound
President
Rose City Sound is an event production company that specializes in high-quality and professional audio, video, and lighting services. They pride themselves on creating meaningful, lasting relationships with their clients and community. For over 80 years, Rose City Sound has dedicated itself to providing the very best products and services to each of its clients.
Faizun Kamal of The Franchise Pros
Founder & CEO
The Franchise Pros is a full-service franchise consulting and development firm. Within their two areas of expertise, they help their clients find the franchise business opportunity that is right for them, and they help business owners turn their existing business into a national franchised brand. Faizun Kamal, an award-winning franchise coach, nationally renowned public speaker, and best-selling author, encourages her clients to “…embrace chaos, fear, insecurity, and uncertainty as doorways of opportunity.”
Dr. Cindra Kamphoff of Mentally Strong Consulting, LLC
Founder
Mentally Strong Consulting is a coaching and training company that provides performance services and mental training to help athletes and professionals learn the tools and strategies to increase their mental toughness. They are committed to supporting high-performing individuals in developing a mindset that can pursue sustainable, peak performance. In high pressure and constantly changing world, they understand the need to build a mindset ready to face uncertainty and adapt to change.
Danielle McGee of Black Business Boom, LLC
Founder and CEO
Black Business Boom is a social enterprise with a mission to support small Black-owned businesses through digital marketing training and coaching, with a hands-on support approach. Their programs simplify the complexities of digital marketing and provide a roadmap for self-started business owners in tasks of building their online presence, increasing leads online, acquiring paying customers, understanding their audience, and more.
Amanda Mitchell of InTouch & Motion
Founder/CEO
InTouch & Motion is a psychotherapy and creative arts therapies practice that strives to produce an innovative, unique, and accepting environment for the healing process. They offer their clients a range of counseling and services, as well as creative, art-based tools for growth and celebration of Self. Their team of healers aims to find the right balance of support and opportunities to meet their client’s needs.
Mara Stoica of Dymaptic
CEO
Dymaptic creates software solutions for real-world problems. Specializing in Application Development, they offer result-oriented consulting related to Geographic Information System (GIS), off-the-shelf software, and software development. Dymaptic’s carefully crafted culture is based on their founding principles of excellence and honesty.
Ying Stoller of Ying's Kitchen, Inc.
Founder
Ying’s Kitchen is passionate about its mission of bringing healthy Asian meals to every American table. They manufacture and wholesale high-quality, easy-to-use Asian cooking products such as sauces, batter mixes, and cookbooks that are designed to make it easy to bring cultural flare to meals at home. They work hard to create high-quality products and services and include ingredients you can pronounce. Ying, the founder, has always said, “we believe Asian cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. With a few tips and tricks, anyone can do it!”
Sarah Suzuki of Chicago Compass Counseling, LLC
Owner and Founder
Chicago Compass Counseling (CCC) specializes in inclusive, evidence-based behavior change counseling. CCC connects individuals and organizations seeking solutions for self-destructive behavior with a team of specialized counselors that meet their specific needs. Their clients can expect restored integrity between values and actions, with the ultimate goal of unleashing their power to change.
Jandie Turner of Acuity Sports and Acuity Events
CEO
Acuity Events is a management company that provides full-service event management for corporations, associations, and nonprofits. Starting over 20 years ago as a golf event management business, Acuity Sports, a division of Acuity International, LLC, excels at creating world-class golf event experiences delivered with unparalleled professional client service.
Esther Wallace of Playa Society
CEO
Playa Society is a sport-inspired streetwear brand bridging the gap for women’s sports. They work to inspire athletes with products that reflect gender equality and social justice. Since 2018, Playa Society has created products that define female athlete culture, facilitate discussions around representation and recognition, and remind every woman that there is no limit to what she can achieve.
Precious Williams of Perfect Pitches by Precious, LLC
Founder & CEO
Perfect Pitches by Precious is hired by top Fortune 500 tech and financial services companies to show them how to boldly bait, attract, and close on their most ideal prospects. Precious, a 13-time national elevator pitch champion, has appeared on Shark Tank, Forbes Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and as a corporate trainer for Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, the Federal Reserve Bank, and Intuit QuickBooks. Nobody does it better than the KillerPitchMaster and her team at Perfect Pitches by Precious, where they create killer sales pitches, elevator pitches, and investor pitches that #slayallcompetition.
Donate Now — so more women entrepreneurs have equal access to opportunity.
C200’s CHAMPION Program is 100% funded by C200 and the total cost of the program equals over $15K per participant. Your donation helps ensure we can continue this program for years to come and grow the program to include even more women entrepreneurs in future cohorts. Click the button below to donate.
Is your company interested in sponsoring C200’s CHAMPION Program? Email us at champion@c200.org.
