Welcome to The WELL
Community, Collaboration, Confidence, and Capital.
Our Approach
The Women Entrepreneur Leadership Lab (The WELL) is a transformative network of black women business owners that facilitates the growth of black-women-owned businesses by fostering community, collaboration, and confidence.
We seek to close the success gaps in black women-owned business by offering a proven continuous improvement approach and safe space for black women business owners to collectively explore and address our unique business challenges while establishing and sharing our own best practices.
The WELL is one part sister circle, one part mastermind, and one part research initiative; all parts love. Thriving is our birthright and together, we will grow our businesses, author our stories, and lead our communities.
Our Beliefs
Our Tribe - We all need a village; No one makes it alone.
Continuous learning - We learn and grow through authentic and repeated opportunities to learn from others, to take risks, to practice and to get support.
Our Flaws - No one has it all together or all figured out. But that doesn’t make us frauds. It makes us human.
Representation - We need affirming spaces, faces and experiences.
Our Elevation & Success - When black women succeed, we elevate all black people.
Our Expertise - Black women possess everything we need to thrive and to uplift communities that thrive.
Our Process
1. Community Building & Networking
Each month we begin our meet-up by fellowshipping and networking over breakfast.
2. Learning
Each quarter business expert(s) on a specific topic join us to share new, relevant, and member requested content on an area of need.
3. Action Planning & Adjusting
Following new content, members engage in an action planning process where each person determines an area of focus for the next month. In the subsequent months of the quarter, we adjust our action plans based on individual and shared wins, challenges and additional needs.
4. Problem of Practice
Members lead and support one another through problem of practice presentations & discussions.
5. Commitment & Accountability
Members determine commitments for the next month, implement and follow up with accountability partners as agreed.
