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Virtual Office Hours: Writing Your Business Plan

Virtual Office Hours: Writing Your Business Plan is a free one-on-one working session for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. This is not a class. Bring your draft, your spreadsheet, or the section you keep rewriting and get focused help on financial projections, your business model, and what a lender actually wants to see. October 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.

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Scalable Steps to Success: Strengthen Your Legal, Financial, and Operational Foundation

Scalable Steps to Success is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners preparing to grow. Led by Sheretha Gordon, CEO of Strategic Steps Consulting, LLC, and hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Learn to recognize legal and compliance risks, strengthen contracts, policies, licenses, and records, get clear on cash flow, profitability, and financial controls, remove operational bottlenecks, and build repeatable SOPs and a real roadmap for scaling. October 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.

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Create A Growth Plan For Your Business

Create A Growth Plan For Your Business is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Assess your current strengths and opportunities, set SMART growth goals, identify your ideal customer and new markets, build a sales and revenue strategy, scale operations and customer experience, and leave with a 90 day action plan and the partnerships and funding to support it. November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST. No fee.

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Disaster Preparedness for Small Business

Disaster Preparedness for Small Business is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Learn how to identify the risks inside your own operation, build a straightforward emergency plan, protect the records and data your business runs on, and get back up and running quickly after severe weather, power outages, cyberattacks, or supply disruptions. September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.

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Let’s Talk Shop: Salon Edition

Let’s Talk Shop: Salon Edition is a virtual conversation for current and aspiring salon owners, hairstylists, barbers, estheticians, and beauty professionals. Featuring Sherian McGhee of Rainy Expressions and Kanecia Davis of Klassy Kutz on daily operations, building clientele, marketing and branding, and the transition from beauty professional to business owner. September 30 at 10:00 AM CST.

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