Amplify
Get Equipped for
Bigger & Better
Your Business Has Grown. Now Your Leadership, Systems and Capacity Have to Grow With It.
That's not news. You know it every time you hit a wall... every time your ends don't meet... every time you become frustrated by a broken process... every time you (fill in the blank).
Amplify, a leadership development and business collaboration program, is your best next move.
Because you business is unique and so are your business challenges so they can't be resolved in a cohort environment. You crave a subject matter expert you can talk to about you and who holds you accountable to execute and lead.
Growing a bigger, better business will require something different.
As revenue grows, so can the complexity of running the business:
Your decisions carry greater consequences.
Your systems may no longer support the workload.
Your team needs stronger leadership.
We help you get through it to get to it.
Amplify is your resource to spark your growth specifically by deepening your skills around the backbone of your business- operations strategy and systems, supplemented with expansion of your business network, access to funding, and specific mentoring and coaching.
16
Weeks
50+
Hours of Collaborative Mentoring, Learning, Collaborating, Accountability Huddle
Expert Advisors
Pitch Competition
Lifetime Network
Independent and Customized Execution & Learning
Is Amplify for you ?
Scale means growing your revenue, customers or impact faster than costs, staffing and other resources increase. It means you can serve more people or sell more without without needing to add a proportional amount of expense.
If you are ready to learn what it takes and how to scale your business successfully, Amplify is for you.
Criteria To Apply
in business full-time at least 2 years. Not for profit leaders are welcomed.
Minimum revenue of $200,000
Seeking to lead their businesses into scalable enterprise (up to 10 employees) especially in Ohio's fast growing industries like ecommerce, healthcare, retail, small manufacturing, technology, food, transportation
Is self-motivated, seeks accountability, ready to solve her toughest problems by getting out of her comfort zone, tackling blind spots, is coachable with an unstoppable mentality prepared to experience a customized program that lights the path forward - with truth from new connections and unexpected rewards.
Applications are now being accepted
You aspire to grow your business. You aspire to run your business better instead of it running you. Amplify is your best next move. The Women's Center for Economic Opportunity created Amplify for full-time entrepreneurs and founders seeking collaborative relationships with experts to prepare to scale their businesses. Amplify is your resource to spark your growth specifically by deepening your skills around the backbone of your business- operations strategy and systems, supplemented with AI, expansion of your business network, access to funding, and customized advisory, mentoring, accountability and leadership development.
The application period closes September 15, 2026
Program Experience
Amplify Your Legacy
Amplify offers a comprehensive 16-week program of over 50 hours of assessment, business advisory, coaching, and mentoring as well as in-person learning labs inside a Collaboration Community. Access to a lifetime continuous learning community is an added value to your participation in Amplify.
Our program focuses on helping established
women CEOs prepare to scale their businesses to $500,000 to $1Million.
If you are building your legacy as a supplier or you are building in high-growth industries like tech-related, healthcare, financial services, e-commerce and more, Amplify can help you create the systems you need to gain traction, profitability and position to expand your team.
Unique within the Central Ohio business ecosystem, we focus on strengthening your business in four areas of operational excellence. Your experience is powered by the integration of local business advisors, experts with lived entrepreneurial experience, and business growth partners willing to break down barriers to entry, mentor, coach and provide opportunities as the critical force-multiplier for our program CEOs.
And you'll have a chance to pitch your business and win grant dollars.
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Amplify is results focused:
90% | Increased revenue
90% | Expanded their team
100% | Recommend friends attend
Cost:
$999.00
Scholarships are available
CEO VALUE
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Capacity-Building, Growth-Centered Curriculum
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Executive-level Coaching and Mentoring
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Direct Connections with Business Leaders & Growth Partners
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Receive Business Certification Funding & Application Support
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Compete for Business Grants
Developed using an equity human-centered design approach rooted in the unique experiences of women, Amplify consists of four multi-session sprints over a 16- week period leading to your Amplify certification. You'll also join a community of high earning CEOs for thought partnership and encouragement as well as a broader network of potential partners. In addition, you'll have access to post-certification continuous learning, business advisement, coaching and mentoring.
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AMPLIFY
BETTER BUSINESS SYSTEMS
In a recent survey 75% businesswomen said the #1 hindrance of being able to grow their businesses is that they are just plain worn out from chasing every business task!
In Amplify you'll learn and establish a repeatable system that works and you can use over and over to operate your business for the lifetime of your business, in every stage- stabilization for consistent revenue, growth and scale for increased profitability & sustainability. Our systems help you foresee business challenges coming your way so you can resolve it before it stops your momentum, gobbling up all your time, keeping you on that hamster wheel - chasing revenue, team members and time.
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AMPLIFY NEW BUSINESS
SKILLS FOR GROWTH
Understand and apply the core business operational competencies around refining your business concept and revenue model specifically for scale; accessing new customers and partners; solidifying your financials; creating a hiring strategy; and assessing and evolving your branding, sales and marketing tactics.
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AMPLIFY YOUR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP & CEO PRESENCE
Your gift of your vision is one of your super powers. How you show up as a CEO, as a leader, reflects all that you are. In Aspire, we take the time to explore with you many of the dimensions of your greatness so you can harness your strengths, leverage the opportunities with a personal development plan that complements your business growth strategies.
What You'll Gain
Financial Growth
Create predictable revenue systems and improve profitability
Marketing & Sales
Build demand, attract ideal clients, and increase conversation.
Operations
Create efficient processes that reduce overwhelm and scale.
CEO Leadership
Lead with confidence,
communicate clearly, and build strong teams.
Wellness
Because healthy leaders build healthy thriving business.
Who Should Apply
Amplify is perfect for established women business owners
ready to build to scale.
Service Businesses
Retail
Professional Firms
Consultants
Government
Contractors
And More
Healthcare
Technology
We're Building
More Than Businesses
We're Building
Community Economic Transformation
Invitation: Become an
Equity Growth Partner
Our Equity Growth Partners are enterprise level organizations truly seeking to strengthen their supplier-diversity programs with procurement-ready vendors. A partnership with WCEO not only translates into accessing new suppliers but also a pathway to build capacity in your organization's current vendors. We'd love to talk with you about our Amplify Local: Building Capacity in Women-owned Businesses. As a growth partner your employees can volunteer to mentor to program participants, lead instructional sessions, share the requirements of doing business with your company with the goal of help
open up potential contracting opportunities for our graduates.
Invitation: Become a Strategic Sponsor
Our sponsors play a critical role in helping us to achieve our programmatic outcomes. These outcomes aim to achieve root-level impact for women of color entrepreneurs in Central Ohio. We take a lot of pride in being stewards of your support, and work to ensure your organizational priorities are translated in a way that maximize the impact of your contributions.
For more information on becoming an Equity Growth Partner or a Strategic Sponsor, please reach out to Keena Smith, CEO via email at keena@womensceo.org
