The Business Growth Academy can chart where you are, where you want to be and how to get there!
The Business Growth Academy is a 7-session program including insight from experts that will help you build a strategic growth plan specifically for your company!
Applications are open. Please complete the form below and you will be contacted for next steps.
New for 2024
The Business Growth Academy will be offered in Spanish!
This cohort will run alongside the English-language Business Growth Academy. Please visit Academia de Negocios for more info.
Business Growth Academy Spring 2022 Graduation
Business Growth Academy (BGA) is a must for all business owners. The learning materials are relevant. The instructors are very experienced and knowledgeable, but they keep it fun. The BGA Program provided me with the tools and the framework to develop a plan for growth. I highly recommend this program! No matter where your business is in its current life cycle, BGA will help you focus and prioritize your time and energy so you can grow your business.
- Max Mong, The Unboring Granola
About The Instructor
Jock M. Sommese
Teaching is something I’ve done my entire life...help others help themselves.
A self-described lifetime learner, my entire life has centered on taking the knowledge and lessons that I acquire and sharing them through teaching, coaching and mentoring. It is a passion that has provided immense enjoyment and satisfaction.
Professionally, I have more than 30 years of extensive start-up, merger and acquisition, financial, sales and marketing, and operations experiences. I have utilized those experiences to mentor employees and co-workers in companies of various sizes, industries and stages.
In 1999, I was recognized as the Small Business Journalist of the Year for the state of Pennsylvania by the Small Business Administration. As President/Publisher of “Smart Business Now,” I created the magazine to support our area’s entrepreneurs, provide information that they can use in their business immediately and help provide a forum for like-minded business professionals.
For the last 20 years, I have been an adjunct business professor for higher education institutions in the Philadelphia region, and last year at Northern Illinois. The opportunity to teach and challenge students to expand their skills, consider alternatives, and help build a better community is my life’s purpose.
To be able to pursue one’s passion on a daily basis is an honor not many individuals are able to attain. Teaching, mentoring and coaching has given me that opportunity!
To be able to pursue one’s passion on a daily basis is an honor not many individuals are able to attain.
