Closing the Gaps: Partner Strategy Roundtable

Tired of missing support or seeing overlap? Work with partners to spot gaps and build stronger connections for your business.
About this Event

Organizations supporting businesses are often working toward the same goals from different directions. This facilitated working session brings regional partners together to examine what resources already exist, where efforts may overlap, what needs may be falling through the gaps, and where stronger collaboration could create greater impact.

Rather than another presentation about individual programs and services, participants will work together to look at the broader business-support ecosystem and ask: What do businesses need? Who is already addressing it? What is missing? And where can we work together more effectively?

Bullet Point Objectives of the Workshop

• Identify gaps in the current business-support ecosystem
• Examine where programs, services, or resources may overlap
• Identify business needs that may not currently be addressed
• Explore opportunities for stronger partnerships and referrals
• Improve connections between existing resources and the businesses that need them
• Identify 2–3 collaborative “needle movers” that could create meaningful regional impact
• Establish practical next steps for continued collaboration

About the Speaker

Maria Daniels is the Founder and CEO of Reset Business Consulting, a strategy and operations consulting firm helping businesses and organizations identify challenges, improve systems, navigate change and turn opportunities into practical action.

With more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, Maria brings a hands-on perspective to business strategy, growth, operations, technology implementation and economic development. She works with small businesses, corporate and organizational teams, and community partners to move from activity and complexity toward greater clarity, alignment and sustainable growth.

The Economic & Community Development Institute's Women's Business Centers of Ohio guide individuals at any stage of the business process. Through one-on-one counseling sessions with WBC staff and volunteers, you can get the direction and resources to meet your goals. Business advisers want to help you successfully start a business, or grow and expand your existing business -- increasing revenue and creating jobs for the local economy.

The WBCs present training workshops regularly to provide access to small business knowledge at no charge. They are the only SBA-funded Women's Business Centers in the state.