Business Coaching and Consulting
for Social Entrepreneurs
with C.J. Hayden
Do you want to make a difference in the world
with your business or nonprofit? Is your enterprise built around a global mission or social agenda?
Working with a business coach can help your passionate ideas make a bigger impact on the world.
I help my clients make a living by making a difference. I believe that everyone has a
path of right livelihood — a way of earning a living that makes the best use of your talents, honors
your values, and allows you to be of service to others. My personal mission is to assist you in
succeeding at your right livelihood by building an enterprise that makes a positive difference in the
world. If you own or lead a business or nonprofit with a social agenda at its core, or you have a business idea grounded in the
principles of social entrepreneurship, I may be the right coach for you.
What is a social entrepreneur?
Here's what I help my clients do:
- Get clear about what you want to accomplish
- Evaluate your concept and develop a sustainable business model
- Build an effective business plan, marketing plan, or action plan
- Locate resources, make connections, and build alliances
- Own your leadership qualities and claim your potential
- Solve problems and eliminate obstacles
- Gain perspective, get feedback, and discover new ideas
- Stay true to your vision, focused on your goals, and on track with your plans
I have the skills and experience to help you and your business with:
- Business visioning, strategy and planning
- Marketing tactics, tools and skills
- Financial modeling and analysis
- Product design and development
- Managing projects and people
- Developing yourself as a leader, visionary and entrepreneur
Since 1992, I have been helping clients like these:
- A successful author wanted to use her experience
in the publishing industry to found an entrepreneurial nonprofit teaching business skills to at-risk
girls. I coached her to clarify her vision, define the mission of her enterprise, form her first management
team, and build alliances in the community, and make it all fit into her already busy life.
- An MD who founded a medical research
facility to discover new treatments for AIDS/HIV hired me to consult with his management team to define
appropriate marketing strategies, develop a marketing action plan, and assist the doctor/CEO personally in
learning entrepreneurial thinking, better delegation skills, and project management techniques.
- A training school owner worked with me to
begin sharing her innovative ideas about leadership and personal development on a worldwide basis. I
advised her on public relations and writing techniques, and helped her balance her heavy workload with
managing her health, nurturing a new relationship, and writing a book, while growing her nonprofit school from a
local success into a global enterprise.
- A husband-wife team of psychotherapists contacted
me about their mission to make psychological services available to areas in crisis in the developing world.
I mentored them in reorganizing their private practices and finances to make a life of travel and volunteering
possible.
My clients are founders and leaders of businesses
and nonprofits, and individuals with a global mission or social agenda. They include social
entrepreneurs, social business owners, community and nonprofit leaders, activists, and educators. I work with clients in any
phase of developing an enterprise or project, from the beginning stages of exploring an idea or vision
through later periods of expansion and growth.
Meet some of my clients
Here's what some of my clients say about our work together:
"You have been instrumental in facilitating the development of a successful business
plan, and your extensive professional network has brought into this organization a wealth
of important connections... In you I have found a mentor, a coach, a business-savvy advisor,
a skilled networker, and a wise woman."
Amy Wilson • Director, Grameen Shakti U.S. Liaison
"Your coaching sessions have moved an idea, a passionate dream of mine... into a working reality...
Your expertise, your enthusiasm, and your guidance have all enabled me to plunge into this career and
move forward full speed ahead."
Jennifer Esperante Gunter • Youth Leadership Speaker
"I chose you as my coach because of your demonstrated
mastery of your business, your expertise in business marketing, and my sense of your integrity. You
delivered on all those... What I experienced and came to value so highly is your ability to hold a space,
keeping me in my vision and helping me practice self-compassion."
Beth Hand, MBA • Leadership Coach
"It's wonderful to have a champion in your life that supports you in
achieving your dreams. It is even better when that champion has the wisdom, expertise and experience to guide you in the
steps to take to make your dreams a reality. That is what my experience in working with
C.J. has been like."
Judi Henderson-Townsend • Serial Entrepreneur
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If what you've read so far sounds like I might be the right
coach or consultant for you and your enterprise, please contact me
to find out more. I work with my one-on-one clients over the phone, so you can be located anywhere in
the world. There's no long-term commitment required to schedule a session. For team coaching or strategic
planning sessions, I can travel to your site. Please note that because I often have a full roster of
clients, I do have to be selective about which clients I can work with personally. To find out more about
my availability and rates, please tell me a little about your enterprise when you call or write. I look
forward to hearing from you!
* What is a social entrepreneur? If your enterprise has a global mission or social agenda that
holds a higher priority for you than maximizing profits, you may be a social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneurs
build mission-driven businesses aimed at solving social problems, direct their professional skills and training
toward social benefit projects, or use their entrepreneurial skills to direct innovative nonprofits.
Social entrepreneurship may take many forms: starting a business, implementing a corporate or community initiative,
offering professional services on a pro bono basis, directing a nonprofit, serving as an activist, working to educate others
through writing, teaching, speaking or artistic works — or even launching a movement.
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