Creatively keeping momentum moving forward even during a pandemic.

We are The Workmans! More specifically, Alex, Chelsea, Keegan, and Oliver Workman! We are a husband and wife creative team in Tallahassee, FL and in this crazy season, we really wanted to do something creative that could put smiles on peoples faces and “poke fun” at the strange times the world is living in and the adjustments everyone has had to make (without being disrespectful of the severity of this virus). So we came up with a concept…

COVIDwear. Business on the top. Quarantine on the bottom.

We created a series of portraits of people dressed in business wear from waist up and dressed for quarantine in PJs/workout clothes/loungewear/boxers on the bottom. Participants played up their character as much as they felt comfortable. We wanted to portray what’s probably happening out of the frame on a ZOOM call.

Challenging times call for innovative approaches. Are you looking to start a side hustle to earn some extra income? Dr. Gabrielle K. Gabrielli will share strategies to help you develop a plan and tap into resources to help. Gabrielle started her own side hustle- a video production company- as a teenager. It became so successful that she didn’t need to work in her j-o-b. As she evolved, so did her side hustle until she found her ultimate niche of human performance improvement including through leadership coaching, training, and speaking. Attend this session to determine your needs, tap into your talents, consider your options, and increase your earning potential with your own side hustle(s).

Dr. Gabrielle K. Gabrielli is a speaker, coach, author, evaluator, and educator who helps improve leadership, motivation, performance, and learning. She is CEO of Gabrielle Consulting, Inc. where her clients include nonprofits, education, business, and government. She juggles a variety of projects from designing award-winning curriculum to conducting evaluations to teaching human resource topics and coaching executives to achieve higher-level leadership. She is a Maxwell certified coach, speaker, and trainer who founded the Leadership Academy to provide yearlong leadership development curriculum, evaluation, assessments, coaching, and mentoring to professionals.

Danielle Irwin serves as a director, oceanographer and regulatory expert at Cummins Cederberg, a marine and coastal engineering firm. Previously, as owner-CEO of her own firm, DHF Consulting, Inc., she helped landowners navigate through the bureaucratic process of environmental resource permitting.

Female entrepreneurs often don’t receive enough recognition for the balancing act they must do in their lives as businesswomen, mothers, community advocates and more. The many roles they play become invisible in the public eye as they try to do it all. The type of support they tap into will often influence their level of success. Since selling her business in 2012, Danielle has utilized her skills and knowledge as a businesswoman and her entrepreneurial initiative to successfully open local offices for two Florida-based coastal engineering firms. Danielle has learned how to balance her life as a scientist, a mother, and a businesswoman. Join her for an open and honest discussion about female entrepreneurship, lessons learned, and finding the balance through it all.

We welcome Dr. Michelle Mitcham to lead a "courageous conversation" on how we move forward by having a better understanding and plan of action for a more diverse and inclusive way of being....#TogetherInTallahassee.

The webinar will discuss reevaluating and reconfiguring where and how we work. We will also discuss important Post-Covid safety measures that should be considered for your office space.

Adrianne Kautz earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Interior Design from Florida State University in 2011. Her work includes furnishings for the MT Mustian Center, Meenan Law Firm, and Domi Station. She is also Co-Founder of local business One Fresh Pillow.

Talethia Edwards is a local community activist. She joins us to lead a discussion on how race, gender and inequity are interlocked in the social constructs of our society. In addition to focusing on the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, she'll also discuss #sayhername, an initiative to bring awareness to female victims of police brutality and anti-black violence. She will also discuss how as a sisterhood of women, we can together be on the front line of this important movement to bring about a better and more just society for all.

#SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for black female victims of police brutality and anti-black violence in the United States. #SayHerName aims to change the public perception that victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence are predominantly male by highlighting the gender-specific ways in which black women are disproportionately affected by fatal acts of racial injustice.

The topic discusses with examples the four (and more) leverages in business that enable companies to grow. Some of the leverages are well known like financial, or people. These are elements that people used for hundreds of years to grow companies. But they still might not unlock exponential growth yet.

More recently, leverages like media and technology, have enabled tech companies to grow exponentially and punch way above its original inputs. Think how Facebook can reach 3 billion users with only 50,000 employees, VS how American Airlines had 260 million passengers in 2019 with over 130,000 employees.

How to find and maximize the leverages to use in your business? How can you design services and products that have potential exponential growth?

Under the Skin of Racial Trauma, The Pineapple Metaphor with April Fitzpatrick. More info soon.

Randi Atwood is the Platform Editor for the Tallahassee Democrat. As industry norms are disrupted worldwide, compounded by COVID19, Randi will share her perspective on the impact to local news media. With local newspapers serving as a critical medium to highlight the important issues impacting communities, we'll discuss how they are dealing with the current climate and challenges, and what benefits are derived from supporting local news.

Join ACT House and Reach for Build Day X- an X-tended and virtual version of our typical build days!

For a few hours over the course of 5 days, you will get a chance to elevate your daily routine, connect with other like-minded individuals and top industry experts, acquire new skills and build digital products that solve real problems.

Online orientation kicks off on June 6th from 6:00p-7:00p.

Build Day X will take place online and at home on June 10th- June 14th.

More details will be sent out in a follow-up email and text notifications. Sign up now to reserve your spot!

Concept is your product/communication idea in its PUREST FORM. It is the BASIS OF ALL MARKETING ACTIVITY. A well-developed concept is both an art and science. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop consumer insights from observations, then develop a winning concept from solid insights. Bring your questions for Q&A as well!

Facilitator: Marketing Expert Jin Zhang

Learn how to update your marketing plan to address your customers' changing buying behavior due to COVID-19. Bring your questions for Q&A as well!

Facilitator: Lydia Hanks from the Dedman School of Hospitality

This Summer - What to expect for kids, family fun, and more!

Jessica Duncan (from www.fun4tallykids.com) will be letting us know about some summer camps that will be open and how they'll be keeping things safe, virtual summer camp offerings, family fun events and activities, and more ways to keep families active, engaged, and having fun this summer!

Join Women Wednesdays on Facebook LIVE!

Your brand is more than just a logo. Learn how to develop your brand in cost-effective ways and stay consistent with your core values.

We'll cover the following and have time for Q&A as well:
-The meaning of a brand
-Main steps in developing a brand
-Great examples of branding
-Tools you can use
-Expectations of costs

Facilitator: Julia Holly from JH Creative

Maximize Your LIVE! Tips/Tools for Live-Streaming w/ StreamYard.

Live-streaming not only offers a way to reach people at a safe and comfortable distance, but you can reach MORE people via livestream versus how many people you can fit in an actual room. Those realizations are changing the way we conduct business now and beyond this pandemic. Learn tips & tools for maximizing the benefits of your own livestream event.

Join Women Wednesdays on Facebook LIVE!

Launch Yourself with Podcasting with Rosanna Catalano

More than 62 million people listen to podcasts weekly and that number keeps growing. This fast-growing media format can be a great way to promote your business, gain credibility in your professional life, support your brand, or just share your personal interests and hobbies. Learn how to create a show, market your podcast, and much more about the industry. Rosanna Catalano is a graduate of the Podcast Engineering School and hosts the popular podcast, The Floridaville.

Tune in on Facebook LIVE

Businesses around the world are experiencing unparalleled change.
Many are rethinking every part of their organization, and learning how to quickly adapt to the situation. In this session, experts from Lumsden McCormick, LLP will share strategies and best practices, together with their insights on how businesses can plan for the unknown.

In this webinar, you’ll learn more about:
1. The Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a $2 trillion relief act aimed at providing relief to individuals, businesses, and government organizations—and how to access these measures
2. Determining and managing cash flow to better protect your business in a downturn
3. Business management strategies for planning and performing efficiently in the face of unexpected circumstances

This webinar is part of Shopify Plus
Curated by the Tallahassee Mentor Network Task Force.

Over the past 60 days, the realities of COVID-19 have derailed thousands of carefully-crafted financial strategies. From headcount to marketing spend, many companies are reassessing every line item as they prepare for an uncertain future.

What factors should you consider when making tough decisions? How do you communicate trade-offs to stakeholders across the organization? And how do you plan when everything could change in a week?

Join Pilot CFO Paul Jun and Rippling CFO Adil Syed for a master class on financial planning & budgeting during the COVID-19 crisis.

You’ll learn:
- A framework for making the right financial decisions for your company
- How to incorporate economic uncertainty into your decision-making
- How to get stakeholder buy-in for your new financial plan
- How Rippling and Pilot applied these lessons to their own businesses

This webinar is part of Pilot’s COVID-19 Resources for Startups
Curated by the Tallahassee Mentor Network Task Force.

Note: Due to COVID-19 this will be a Facebook LIVE event.

Chelse Collins has a cross-functional background spanning the beauty and fashion industry.

She is also a graduate of Florida A&M University where she received her degree in broadcast journalism. After graduating, Chelse served as a news producer for one of the top local stations in Northwest Florida.

In 2017 Chelse opened Novus Racks; Tallahassee's first mobile personal styling and private shopping boutique. Now she shows women and men how to enhance their image and build confidence all while staying within their budget.

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Congress has struck a deal to replenish the emergency loans available to small business through the CARES Act. The bill infuses more aid into the economy, including $320 billion into the Paycheck Protection Program, which had run dry. It’s critical relief for small businesses who are struggling to find the resources they need to survive this economic pause. Where can small business owners turn for help? How should companies operate in this low-cash environment? And how and when should businesses plan for a return to work?

This Friday, April 24 at noon ET, Inc. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will join forces for a fifth virtual National Small Business Town Hall to help guide business owners through the resources available to them.

This event is part of Inc. and U.S. Chamber of Commerce National Small Business Town Hall Series

Curated by the Tallahassee Mentor Network Task Force

Congress just passed a roughly $480 billion relief package, including over $300 billion in the Payroll Protection Program. Mark J. Koehler and Matt Sorenson, nationally respected tax lawyers, will guide you through the extended Paycheck Protection Program. During this webinar, Mark and Matt will cover:

• How can you apply quickly?

• Who is eligible?

• What are the terms?

This webinar is part of the Entrepreneur Magazine Crisis Management Series.

Curated by the Tallahassee Mentor Network Task Force.