Immerse yourself in an environment focused on helping you succeed. Engage with faculty who shape the future of business. Grow your network and build the community of your dreams. The Brookline Chamber of Commerce has brought together experts who will help to create a customized approach for your business in a 10-week program.
 

Join an intimate cohort of Brookline, Brighton, and Allston business people for hands-on virtual workshops, facilitated by distinguished Boston University and Boston College faculty, specializing in marketing, public relations, and cyber security. 

Limited seats are available for this exclusive no-cost opportunity. Acceptance into the program includes 20 interactive virtual workshops and five office hour consultations. 

Important Information
 

Here's a recording of the November 16th Information Session: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/lUxsywT8m5i2krcn8KOY6GrPjbQnpUQAMpDVq6ms3Yv8w52Dbs1qUaf5U5Jyc6Ck.c5BwmKWQvP_2sH3B?startTime=1668607449000

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If you completed this course last year, please sign up for the Bootcamp REBOOT: https://business.brooklinechamber.com/events/details/brookline-brighton-allston-business-bootcamp-reboot-workshops-2843

Course 1: Begin Your Best Branding, Patricia Hambrick

In Begin your best Branding, Patricia will help you apply best practices in branding to your own company through workshops and application models. 

Course 2: Tell Your Story so Others Will Listen, Sue Jung Grant

Develop a storytelling strategy that moves people using traditional and digital media to create compelling communications.

Course 3: Creating a Digital Experience, Kim Donlan

Create an extensive digital experience for your customers. Learn the shortcuts to finding and keeping your best customers online.

Course 4: Attract Customers with Best Marketing Practices and PR, Sue Jung Grant and Amy Shanler

Part One: Learn to analyze market challenges and opportunities to implement a successful and sustainable marketing mix, and to cultivate customer intimacy. 

Part Two: In this two-part workshop focused on public relations, you will learn the secrets to social media success and how to tap into the power of reporters and influencers to reach more people.
 

Course 5: Cybersecurity, Kelley Misata

Looking at your business through the lens of cyber and information security can immediately feel overwhelming, confusing, and often too technical to figure out where to start. The Cybersecurity Workshop is a four-part series designed specifically for small businesses to begin improving cybersecurity using national standards (NIST Cybersecurity Framework) re-purposed in everyday language. With a hands-on approach to assessing where your business measures against cybersecurity best practices, we will explore practical cybersecurity risks and provide practical ways to integrate cybersecurity as a part of business operations.

Faculty
 

Patricia Hambrick

Patricia Hambrick began teaching marketing and branding to MBA students at Boston University after running marketing organizations for companies such as Reebok, L'Oreal and many others. She is known as an expert on Branding, having created unique brand positionings for large companies as well as start ups and early stage such as Bag Borrow or Steal, in what the NYT called Netflix for high end handbags. 

Learn more on LinkedIn and at hambrickgroup.com.

 

Sue Jung Grant

With two decades of experience teaching at multiple levels: undergraduate, masters, MBA, PhD, and executive. Sue supports students, leaders and teams in their understanding of marketing strategy, growth and the consumer connection. Her research, which has been published in top-tier journals, investigates consumers' social and cognitive psychological processes in persuasive communications. As a marketing professor at BU's Questrom School of Business, Sue has led curriculum innovation, introducing new courses, new techniques and new programs. She earned a PhD in consumer psychology and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Learn More

Kim Donlan is a Marketing Lecturer at Boston University and CEO of RedSwan5, an agency pioneering a new framework for creating unique messaging and digital strategies that create exceptional customer experiences. Learn More

Amy Shanler

Amy Pavel Shanler has 25 years of experience managing communications activities for multiple organizations and industries, including retail, technology, business, health care, and entertainment. Most recently, she has been co-directing the award-winning PRLab at Boston University, the nation?s longest-running, student-led public relations agency, named "Best Training/Education Program" by PR News Agency Elite awards in 2018.

Previously, Amy was director of public and media relations for Royal Philips in North America, and director of PR strategies and community relations for the office products giant Staples. Learn More