“Prior to SIG, I had ideas about what I wanted to do, and thought they might be possible,” says Jordan Munsters of High Caliber Karting and Entertainment. “Yet now I am certain with the direction of the company — and how we’re going to do it.”

“Knowing that I would speak to my team leader in a few days helped me focus and work on my business instead of in it,” says Caitlin McMahan of Marcellus Metalcasters.

From CEO roundtables to the System for Integrated Growth, Beau Anderson of Orion Hunting Products has leveraged several of the foundation’s programs, hosted in Michigan in partnership with the MEDC, to help tackle new challenges in second stage…

“On my wish list was marketing, marketing and more marketing,” says Linda Schlesinger-Wagner, Skinnytees founder. “The deliverables were beyond our wildest dreams.”