Business Design & Coaching

Our Black businesses navigate The toughest challenges (Boston, MA, U.S. or Global). While some ‘helping’ agencies impose external concepts, frameworks & policies, we empower our community’s capacity to transform our startup ideas --business, non-profit, association, or leadership team-related- into a healthy reality. Our goal? You and your team are operating better, simpler, and truer.

How We Help:
Our d.BOBO business modeling tool, driven by YOU, and backed by AI heavy lifting, energizes your organization in these six areas:

  1. Share and fine-tune your narrative (Asili)

  2. Define simple mission and vision statements

  3. Conduct insightful research to develop priority customers’ priority needs

  4. Map operations, workflows, and suppliers to connect to those customers (including cost and price sketching)

  5. Build a strong marketing plan/sales funnel

Get Started Today
Schedule a free 15-30 minute discovery meeting to explore a consultation or plan a full-day workshop tailored to your goals.

RESOURCES

Learning Groups

Join our Facebook Group called d.BOBO (Design for Black Owned Black Operated). This group is for positive Black folks with a passion for leading by doing the right things, right, the first time. That is: DESIGNing health & direction into our community BUSINESSES and ORGANIZATIONS (non-profits and edu institutions included).

..we will post the latest in business information for our community: AI learnings, marketing ideas, story-telling ideas, operation/workflow ideas and events/workshops scheduled/available too.

Influencers of Note

  1. Mahdi Woodard https://100kcampaign.com @mahdiwoodard (Business/AI leader strategies)

  2. Chris Do @chrisdo https://thefutur.com/people/chris-do (Business startup for creatives/designers A-Z)

  3. Natalie Choprasert https://futureailab.com/  @brand.nat (AI learning)

  4. Lisandra Everret https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBizTaxLady @HomeBizTaxLady (Business Taxes)

  5. Anthony Lee https://aiplusautomation.com/ @aimarketerguy (Workflow improvement)

  6. Diana Gladney https://www.youtube.com/@DianaGladney (Video Specialist)

  7. Sabrina Ramonov https://www.youtube.com/@sabrina_ramonov (AI learning

  8. Karlton Dennis https://www.youtube.com/@karltondennis @karltondennis (Business Taxes)

  9. Justin Fineberg https://www.cassidyai.com @justinfineberg  (Workflow improvement)

  10. Marques Brownlee https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd @mkbhd (Tech reviewer)

  11. Wode Maya https://www.youtube.com/@WODEMAYA @wodemaya (freelance African vlogger)

Videos of Note

ReIdren’s public ’d.BOBO Youtube Playlist’ has over 70 small business videos of interest.

ReIdren’s public ‘BlackGen Youtube Playlist’ has over 250 generative AI related videos of interest (mostly midjourney and chatgpt related)

Madan Sara - Business at the core: overcoming structural obstacles to deliver a Need (in Ayti)

How to SET GOALS (& rich channel about a creative/practical note-taking).

Excellent workshop by Chris Do at Futur Inc. discussing HOW TO PRICE your service (applies across industries).

Excellent video about CREATING LOGOS. Note the theory, then use AI sites to sketch i.e. logoai.com or looka.com.

 

Tools We Use in Our Business

Gmail ($) and Google Keep (workspace email and note taking system)

ChatGPT OpenAI ($) AI prompting

Claude Anthropic ($) AI prompting

NotebookLM (free) Information Curation/AI prompting

SquareSpace ($) Web hosting/building

Midjourney Discord ($) Image generation/Design (AI)

Adobe Illustrator ($) Graphic Design/Text/Posters (AI)

Adobe Photoshop ($) Photo Editing (AI)

Grammarly ($) Writing assistant (AI)

Canva.com (free) Design program (AI)

Perplexity/Gemini (free) basic AI prompting

Chrome (Browser) Tools/Extensions: Full Page Screen Capture, Bitly- Short links and QR Codes, Save Image as Type,

Hire designers (logos, biz cards, video content): upwork.com, fivver.com

Social Media: Facebook (groups), LinkedIn, Instagram, X, and Youtube ($)

Other Tools: Zapier, Wave, Paypal, Amazon, Zoom, Eventbrite, QR-Code Generator

Other Teaching Programs

ReIdren actively delivers quality workshops & programs every day to a number of locations in Boston, Cambridge, and worldwide (& online). By Appointment:

  • AI and Generative Learning & other Technology Projects

  • Black History (Ourstory) Projects

  • Genealogy Projects

  • Decolonized Adulting Skills