The Greater Cincinnati Executive Business Accelerator (EBA) is a key training program offered to Strategic Partners and businesses throughout Cincinnati. The EBA is a premier business program tailored for established business owners who are looking to move their business to the next level of growth and potential. In 2018, The Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce invited the Collective Empowerment Group along with the Cincinnati Minority Business Assistance Center, with the support of Fifth Third Bank, to form a partnership to bring the EBA Program to Cincinnati. For 6-7 months business owners of this cohort utilize StreetWise MBA™ curriculum developed by Interise, in Boston. The EBA was created to provide business owners with the business knowledge, management know-how, and the networks needed to grow established small businesses. The EBA provides business owners with the opportunity to work on their business and not just in their business. Graduates of this program have increased their annual revenue significantly and hired additional staff. The inaugural launch of EBA began in September 2018 through April 2019 with a charter class of 9 CEOs. The EBA is intense and according to Jean Horstman, former CEO of Interise, “When small businesses grow, the community grows stronger – this is what Interise stands for.”

REGISTER FOR THE UPCOMING EBA COHORT CLASS

If you’re the owner or in a leadership role in a local small business, and you’re looking to take your business to the next level of growth and potential, please consider registering for the next EBA cohort. Click the link below to learn more about the EBA program and to register for the upcoming cohort:

Executive Business Accelerator Program

2023/2024 COHORT CLASS GRADUATES & LEADERSHIP TEAM

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Jeffery Sample – Sample and Sons Investments, Brittany Coleman – Creative Connections Learning Center, Dr. Valencia Moses – EBA Facilitator, Cedric Pashi – Pashi Group, LLC, Elite Smith – New E.R.A. Elite Roadside Assistance, Gregory Carradine – C&D Service Experts, Liberia Carradine – C&D Service Experts, Vernon Rawls – eXclusive Services, Lauren Vinson – Queen City Medical Transport, Edouard Tende – Zoe Consulting, Erica Garrett – CEG Executive Director & EBA Program Manager, Briston Mitchell – AACC’s Director of Transformative Initiatives and Relationships

CLASS OF 2022 & LEADERSHIP TEAM

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Third Row: Caroletta James – ECO Health Care Center, Fred Harrison – Fresh Coat Painters of Anderson and Loveland, David Choate – Revolution Dance Theatre, James Stocks – DJX Construction, Eric Kearney – AACC

Second Row: Royce Sutton – Fifth Third, Crystal Render – Magnificent Morsels Catering, Paul Booth – CEG, Oswald Baker – Half Price Roof, Joyce Browning Walton – Allstate, Holden Pierre – Interise, Boston

First Row: Epiphany Davis – Have an Epiphany, Theresa Gordon – Sugar Loft Events2, Rea Waldon, Toilynn O’Neal Turner – Robert O’Neal Multicultural Art Center

CLASS OF 2021 & LEADERSHIP TEAM