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Workshops

The Council for Entrepreneurship offers monthly workshops designed to provide relevant information that will address the challenges facing entrepreneurs and small business owners today. The workshops feature local and national experts thanks to our relationships with our Strategic Partners and Benefactors.

The workshops focus on four key tracks: Leadership & Management, Sales and Marketing, Strategic Planning and Finance and Capital. Each track features three back-to-back workshops and each workshop is designed for the four stages of business growth: Start Up and Solopreneurs; Early Growth; Advanced Growth; and Mature Growth.

Executive Roundtables

An exclusive association of dynamic business leaders, the Executive Roundtables lets you share and build your own business knowledge in an intimate, confidential environment from small business owners who have become successful in their line of work.

The Executive Roundtables function as your informal Board of Directors. Groups of 10 to 15 members offer a confidential sounding board for your challenges and a place to relish in your business successes. Roundtables are peer group forums for entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners that directly impact your organization's bottom line.

Groups are comprised of non-competitive, complimentary businesses of similar size. They meet independently on a monthly basis and set their own agendas and schedules based upon the needs of each individual group.

Meet the Purchasers

A major reason business owners join the Metro Atlanta Council for Entrepreneurship and the Gwinnett Chamber is to market their products and services. The Meet the Purchasers program provides an opportunity for Council members to meet with purchasing agents from large companies and governmental agencies to learn what they buy locally and their bidding and purchasing procedures.

Diversity Supplier Forums

The goal of the Diversity Supplier Forums is to generate employment and improve the general economy of Gwinnett County and the metro Atlanta region by assisting minority and women-owned businesses in obtaining contracts from federal, state and county government and from the private sector.

Many large companies and governmental agencies are actively encouraged to give procurement preference to small, small disadvantaged and woman-owned firms by establishing annual procurement goals, contract set-asides, certifications and technical assistance programs. This forum helps bridge big business and government purchasing opportunities with minority small business firms – a win-win for both.