December 2026 Queer Business Owner Roundtable (IN-PERSON)

Northern Michigan's peer-support community for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, business leaders, freelancers, and aspiring founders.
About this Event

This Month's Topic

• Making Meaninful Progress 2027 Strategic Planning + Focus, Priorities & Productivity

Please Note: This month we're gathering in person!

About This Group

The Queer Business Owner Roundtable brings together Northern Michigan LGBTQ+ business owners, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and aspiring founders to work through real business challenges, learn from one another’s experience, and build trusted relationships.

This isn’t networking for networking’s sake. Participants help identify the topics, shape the gatherings, and share the knowledge, connections, and resources they’ve gained through their own entrepreneurial journeys.

Rather than trying to tackle a broad business topic in a single meeting, we work through it over three monthly gatherings:

• Explore — Virtual, 1 hour: Participants share how the jointly-decided monthly topic shows up in their businesses, identify common challenges, and clarify what meaningful progress could look like.
• Design — Virtual, 1 hour: Participants decide what the group should work on together at the following month's in person gathering, what preparation or resources would be useful, and whether local experts should contribute.
• Work — In person, 2 hours: Participants put those plans into action and leave having made concrete progress on a challenge, decision, plan, or project.

Each gathering builds on the previous one, though participants are welcome to attend whichever sessions are most relevant and accessible to them.

The Roundtable is co-hosted and facilitated by and , with additional support from local experts and other partners when helpful.

This is a Grove Affinity Group

The Queer Business Owner Roundtable is a . These groups bring together innovators with shared experiences and identities to build trust, exchange ideas, and elevate each other’s work. These groups help activie and asspiring business onwers grow together in commuity rather than competition.

Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome & Intros

Info: Everyone is invited to share:
- Who you are and whatcha do
- A recent small win we can all celebrate with you
- An ask that you have for the group; something that’d advance your good work.
- A give; something you can provide for others.

🕑: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Strategic Planning Exercises

Info: This part of our gathering will include peer-led, full group and breakout exercises to improve our individual and collective 2027 Strategic Planning!