Business Mastermind

The Small Business Center understands the value mentoring and peer-connections have on your success as an individual and business owner. To help clients and alumni continue to build and leverage their inner circle the Small Business Center has created a Premier Business Mastermind Group.

What is a Mastermind Group? An action-oriented structured group of entrepreneurs/business owners that are like-minded and focused on a similar goal to continue to stabilize, improve, and grow their business. It is a safe space to hone skills, share ideas, build peer connections, and gain the knowledge to help you achieve your goals.

How are the sessions structured? Each Mastermind session includes education segments and a working discussion.

Who leads the Mastermind session? Mastermind sessions are facilitated by SPCC’s lead business counselor, Sherese Duncan. Duncan is President and CEO of Effició, Incorporated, an education firm, and advisory, and has served as an advocate of entrepreneurship for over two decades providing entrepreneurial education and training for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business owners around the world. Duncan’s expertise extends to research on entrepreneurial cognition and behavior, innovative marketing, economic intelligence, and power relationships; in addition to three other business ventures. To further her contribution to intellectual rigor in entrepreneurship, Duncan is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Luleå University of This is an action-oriented structured group of entrepreneurs/business owners who are like-minded and focused on a similar goal to continue to stabilize, improve, and grow their businesses. It is a safe space to hone skills, share ideas, build peer connections, and gain the knowledge to help you achieve your goals.

Each Mastermind session includes education segments and a working discussion. Below is an example of the format for the session. Note, that each member will be required to present updates.

• Introduction and Review of Mastermind Prep Form
• One-Minute Intros and Wins

Education and Discussion:

• Executive Roles
• Executive Credentials
• Entrepreneurial Leadership, Careering, and Visioning
• Operational Excellence
• Sustaining a Financially Healthy Business
• From “Things to Do” to a “Work Breakdown Structure”

Working Discussion

• Complete forms
• Work on business
• Discuss/Ask Questions

Closing Comments and Adjourn