The Womens Business Center:
A business incubator for contemporary, fast-track women business owners and career professionals.

Founded in 1989, the Womens Business Center was the first incubator in the nation to teach entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship to women according to a development methodology designed specifically for women.

Recognizing "There are no glass ceilings in Entrepreneurial America."  (C. Dean Kring, Director of Research, co-founder) created the  WBC to level the playing field and accelerate the number, growth and success rate of woman owned businesses and the number of women in executive positions.

The WBC is certified by the Texas Business Incubator Association.

The WBC uses business development and entrepreneurial education programs pioneered by the Entrepreneurial Development Center Houston's first and Texas' oldest business incubator.

The WBC teaches self-sufficiency and, as a demonstration of capability, is entirely self-sufficient. No public funds, grants, contributions or donations are sought or accepted.

The WBC has always been financially independent.

The WBC provides the resources, methodology and educational environment to accelerate the business growth of emerging business owners and the career development of professional women.

Development programs are self-paced, easy to apply to real life situations and directly applicable to individual requirements. Fees are sliding scale and very affordable.

The development methodology, the Entrepreneurial Development Program is uniquely tailored, case-by-case, to the specific personal resources, attributes and aptitude of clients to address the aspects of marketing, operations, administration and finance of the business and/or the advancement of the career.

For business owners, comprehensive assistance in the business plan, marketing strategy and personal selling skills is included.

For career professionals, a career strategy is designed, based on individual personality factors,  skill sets and career objectives

The WBC provides answers for business growth from pre-startup entrepreneurs-to-be to business owners with many years of business operations and from entry level career professionals to senior executives in both public and private sector.

Development methodologies include advisory boards, mentors and a professional development coach. (We are the first in the nation to provide a "professional development coach" to incubator clients.)

The Womens Business Center was co-founded by Sandra L. White, CFP, CPS, partner in Green/White Financial Advisors, a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Development Program, Chairman Emeritus of the Womens Business Center Advisory Board, Past Chairman of the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas, Past Chairman of Services Cooperative Association, and recipient of the 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 awards for "Outstanding Supporter of Women's Entrepreneurship."

To find out more about the Womens Business Center, call, write or visit today. There's much more that we can tell you about us. More importantly, we'd like to know much more about you and your ideas, aspirations for growth and what your business or career might look like in 3 to 5 years.

For more information, call (713) 932-7495 ext. 6. Appointments preferred. Walk-ins warmly welcomed. Or email Kathleen O'Brien, owner of Business Support Center - a Womens Business Center graduate company.

You need not be in Houston to benefit from WBC programs.

Women's Business Assistance Forum

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Grants for Women

"There is no force so powerful as a group of like-minded women who are bonded in common purpose."
C. Dean Kring, Director of Research, co-founder

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