Workshop 1 - day 1a - March 1st, 2025

• 8 am - Welcome

• 8:30 am to noon - The leadership and management of neurodiverse employees - Margaret Monaghan and Tom Edwards

• Noon to 1 pm - Lunch and guest speaker

• 1 pm to 5 pm - Creative problem solving - Bobbi Block and Tom Edwards

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Workshop 1b - day 2 - March 15th, 2025

• 8 am - Welcome

• 8:30 to 11:30 - Round Robin brainstorming. Each team will have the opportunity to apply the creative problem solving approach of Workshop 1 - day 1 to fine tune their initial business idea - Tom Edwards

• 11:30 am to 12:30 pm - Lunch and guest speaker

• 12:30 pm to 2 pm - Complete Round Robin brainstorming.

• 2 pm - 3:30 pm - Buying an existing business - Doug Fastuca

• 3:30 pm to 5 pm - Legal forms of organization - John Buckley

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Workshop 2 - one day only - March 22nd, 2025

• 8 am - Welcome

• 8:30 am to 9:30 am - Financial business models - Libby Felten or Cindy Bergvale

• 9:30 to 10:00 - Teams take first cut at their financial business model

• 10:00 - 11:00 - The reverse income statement - Tom Edwards

• 11:00 am to 12 noon - Teams update their financial models

• Noon to 1:30 pm - Lunch and guest speaker

• 1:30 pm - 2 pm - scale up to the breakeven point - Tom Edwards

• 2 pm to 2:30 pm - Teams work initial breakeven plan

• 2:30 pm to 3 pm - Teams THINK-PAIR-SHARE

• 3 pm - 4 pm - Introduction to Crowdfunding

• 4 pm to 5 pm - Teams work on initial crowdfunding plan

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Workshop 3 - one day only - March 29th, 2025

• 8 am - welcome

• 8:30 am to 9:30 am - Introduction to employment law - John Buckley

• 9:30 am to 12:30 pm - Round Robin brainstorming. Each team will have the opportunity to apply the creative problem solving approach of Workshop 1 - day 1 to think through how to modify their business operations to be friendly to neurodiverse employees.

• 12:30 pm to 2 pm - Lunch and guest speaker - introduction to the Neurodiversity Employment Network

• 2 pm to 3:30 pm - Continue Round Robin brainstorming

• 3:30 to 5 pm - Introduction to business services - legal, accounting, equity crowdfunding, franchising

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Workshop 4 - one day only - April 4th, 2025

• Each team will have the opportunity to pitch their business launch plan to their cohort peers and a panel of experts. Receive feedback and recommended additional actions to launch