Secure Essential Support To Empower Your Social Enterprise

Start with Impact coaching program

Join our 6-module program to gain confidence and build clarity for your strategy to grow a successful and impactful social enterprise. With our comprehensive program, you’ll receive the necessary tools and knowledge to bring your vision to life while growing your support network. Take advantage of this unique opportunity for the next steps in your entrepreneurial journey.

Stay tuned for our next cohort dates for 2025.

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coaching for social enterprises and social impact leaders

Find the right balance between
your impact strategy and business growth

Do you:

  • Struggle to find the right balance between purpose and profit?
  • Invest too much time and resources for little impact and stakeholder support?
  • Need to refresh your social enterprise goals for the next level of success?
  • Feel overwhelmed trying to balance day-to-day operations and long-term planning?
  • Experience challenges in getting recognized as a mission-focused social enterprise?

Start with Impact can help! We work together to address these challenges and build strategic next steps for your vision.

You are a great fit:

  • Leader of a for-profit or not-for-profit organization 
  • Focus on both generating revenue and impact
  • 1-5 years in operation with existing programs or sales from products/services
  • Represent a commitment to serve underserved communities and/or the environment
  • Open to innovation in social enterprise models and scaling

What to expect from the coaching program?

Start with Impact helps you to build on your commitment to sustainable impact and leadership for your social enterprise with:

Strategic planning to streamline, grow and amplify impact

Coaching to share your vision with a growing network of supporters

Dedicated resources, proven methodologies and templates

Reflection, accountability and encouragement with peers

Each cohort brings together a small curated group of social enterprise leaders to work through the program together and share ideas in a safe space.

We work together in 2-hour virtual coaching sessions over the course of 6 weeks. The course is designed for busy entrepreneurs so there is no required pre-work or homework for any of the session.

The Modules

The problem and systems for impact

Get a deeper understanding of systems and their complexities, why problems occur and persist, and how to navigate them with an effective intervention for impact

Customers, revenue and funding

Define your key opportunities for diversified, sustainable streams of revenue and funding to ensure that your enterprise can be resilient and meet its growth targets

Meaningful community engagement

Identify key stakeholders in the system, understand their needs and challenges, and plan how to engage them in your mission with meaningful roles

Aligning operations to core mission

Build your mission and values into all aspects of your organization for maximum impact, including research and design, human resources, supply chain, marketing and more

Activities, costs and outcomes

Apply goal setting and cost management techniques to expand your vision for impact into the day-to-day activities of your organization and desired outcomes for impact

Sharing your impact story

Combine research, powerful data analysis and storytelling to raise awareness, inspire supporters and promote your progress as an impact-driven and efficient organization

coaching as building blocks for creating your social enterprise

Our participants say...

"A step-by-step process to support the journey to level-up our social impact business. Zahra and Brooke provided an interactive, hands-on approach that created an individual coaching experience, in a group setting. The program delivery supported the ability for on the spot creativity and immediate application of the tools provided."
Cohort 1 Participant
"A unique, impactful program that was informative and interactive. I am looking forward to continuing to apply the insight to my business. I hope Zahra and Brooke can bring more support like this for next steps in the social enterprise journey."
Cohort 1 Participant
"The coaching program was incredibly helpful. I was able to learn how to integrate social enterprise strategies so they make sense in an environment with for-profit stakeholders. I learned about tools and language to explain these ideas better which has been a gamechanger."
Cohort 1 Participant
"The sessions were tremendously helpful and I am so glad I joined! Zahra and Brooke make sure we really understand the concepts and tied the content back to our ventures with interactive exercises and examples."
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Our participants say...

A step-by-step process to support the journey to level-up our social impact business. Zahra and Brooke provided an interactive, hands-on approach that created an individual coaching experience, in a group setting. The program delivery supported the ability for on the spot creativity and immediate application of the tools provided.
Cohort 1 Participant
A unique, impactful program that was informative and interactive. I am looking forward to continuing to apply the insight to my business. I hope Zahra and Brooke can bring more support like this for next steps in the social enterprise journey.
Cohort 1 Participant
The coaching program was incredibly helpful. I was able to learn how to integrate social enterprise strategies so they make sense in an environment with for-profit stakeholders. I learned about tools and language to explain these ideas better which has been a gamechanger.
Cohort 1 Participant
Truly empowering and impactful experience. The content presented during the two-day event allowed me to take a step back and reflect on my work, my business, and myself as an entrepreneur.
Retreat Participant
An introspective unlearning journey in order to better frame our social cause and to identify where our true efforts in terms of short and long term goals can progress.
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Your Network of Support

social impact and social enterprise coaches

Working with innovators and changemakers is a unique experience. The excitement, energy and commitment you bring to your work is unmatched.

We understand that it is challenging to focus on your goals with shifting priorities while setting new boundaries and expectations for your team. Sustained change is possible with a plan.

We are passionate about social impact and have cumulative experience of 25 years in supporting social enterprises to take the next steps for success and enjoy the journey.

– Zahra Qureshi and Brooke Gordon
Social entrepreneurs, coaches and creators of Start with Impact

Ready to move your social enterprise journey forward?

Thank you for your interest in our coaching program! Our current cohort is running from April 15, 2024 to June 3, 2024. We will be announcing dates and times for our upcoming cohort soon.

Please subscribe to our newsletter below to be informed of all updates, including the registration process and program schedule. The full program fee is $595 plus taxes and we offer early-bird and community discounts. Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss any updates and opportunities to join the program or be notified of all our community activities.

Register now - limited spots available

The next cohort will begin Monday, October 21, 2024 and runs till Monday, December 2, 2024. 6 virtual sessions will take place from 5pm to 7pm EST on Zoom over an 8-week period. Session dates for our Fall 2024 are on Mondays: Oct. 21, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 18, Nov. 25, and Dec. 2.

Investment to participate: $595 plus tax

Spots are limited and filled on an ongoing basis. Once all spots are filled, registration will be closed.

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Have questions about the program?

  • Check out our FAQ page.
  • Connect by email: zahra@socialventurecircuit.ca 

Stay tuned for our next cohort dates.

Investment to participate: $595 plus tax

Have questions about the program?

  • Check out our FAQ page.
  • Connect by email: zahra@socialventurecircuit.ca 
We currently have a cohort in progress from October 21 to December 2, 2024. Sign up for our newsletter below to make sure you receive updates when our next cohort in 2025 is announced.

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