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Women-Owned Businesses

Featured Women-Owned Businesses

With 30 years of professional experience and a passion for bridging cultural disparities, Gladis Benavides founded Benavides Enterprises Inc. Groups and individuals alike benefit from Ms. Benavides’ unique ability to communicate profound insights into multi-culturalism in a practical and understandable manner.

Heritage Quality Printing is a women-owned business whose commitment to offering the latest technology only becomes meaningful through their passion to provide personalized service. Heritage knows it’s only by listening to their customers and understanding their needs that they can provide solutions that will make a real difference in their business. It’s what sets Heritage apart from other printers.

Joan Lloyd & Associates offer Executive Coaching; Team Assessment / Teambuilding / Conflict Resolution; Customized Online 360-Degree Feedback Processes; Presentation Skills Training & One-on-one Coaching; and Customized Supervisor / Manager Skill-Building Workshops. From assessments to custom-designed solutions, Joan Lloyd & Associates will help you improve and maximize your key talent. Their clients, ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to large corporations, trust them with their leadership development challenges. Joan Lloyd & Associates takes a comprehensive approach to Executive Coaching; they assess the strengths and development needs of each executive and create a customized plan based on his/her unique needs, and the needs of your organization.

Next Generation Consulting is a market research firm committed to engaging the next generation. We’re serious about what’s next. In a fun way. Next Generation Consulting works primarily with companies who want to become great places to work for the next generation; communities that want to attract and keep young professionals. THey work occasionally with consumer brands on marketing campaigns.

Directory of Resources

The Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation publishes a Resource Directory each year which represents many of the entrepreneurs who have participated in their business lending, business incubation, self-employment initiatives, and WWBIC’s social business venture, Coffee With A Conscience. We invite you to consider these businesses when looking for a particular product or service.

Entrepreneurual Assistance & Networking

Women Entrepreneurs of Wisconsin brings together businesswomen of many occupations in a non-competitive setting. Our mission is to assist women business owners and those with an entrepreneurial spirit on their journey to building and maintaining successful businesses.

The Racine/Kenosha Chapter of Wisconsin Women Entrepreneurs (WWE) is a non‑profit, non‑partisan organization that is dedicated to fostering the growth and stability of businesses owned or co‑owned by women in Racine and Kenosha counties.

The National Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. (NABWE) is recognized as the nation’s first organization dedicated to addressing the specific needs of African American entrepreneurial women; women who work full or part time for themselves and intrepreneurial women; women who make a living applying their entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and behaviors while working for someone else.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) was established in 1996 through the consolidation of various independent state organizations. It provides development assistance in areas such as marketing, business and community finance, exporting, small business advocacy, and manufacturing assessments.