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2021 Woodforest Foundry Kickoff

Our 2021 Woodforest Foundry Kickoff was a huge success! Relive this great session and hear from seasoned entrepreneurs who shared their success stories and helped registrants to learn how to take their BIG dreams and transform them into even BIGGER businesses.

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Terrie Simmons

Terrie Simmons is an entrepreneur, civic leader, and the owner of Strategic Exceptions, a professional business consulting firm, innovative employee training and organizational development company focused on delivering exceptional service standards with quantitative results. Terrie is expertly experienced in non-profit management, leadership development and all phases of entrepreneurship How To’s. Terrie is also an adjunct professor teaching business courses at the graduate level.

2021 Woodforest Foundry Kickoff

By Terrie Simmons | December 2, 2021

Our 2021 Woodforest Foundry Kickoff was a huge success! Relive this great session and hear from seasoned entrepreneurs who shared their success stories and helped…

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Minority Business Development Agency Awards $13.9 Million in Grants

By Terrie Simmons | September 29, 2021

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is awarding $13.9 million in federal funding to 35 grant recipients as part of its…

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Aurora-based Organization Granted the Minority Business Development Agency Grant to establish the Minority Business Development Agency Business Center in Illinois

By Terrie Simmons | August 6, 2021

WHAT: Strategic Exceptions Professional Consulting Inc. was awarded the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Grant to establish the Illinois Minority Business Development Agency (IL MBDA)…

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