The WIBO

WIBO's mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from underserved communities to obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs, and improve communities. Launched in 1966 by the late Walter Geier (a sales and marketing training consultant for F... ortune 500 companies) and Mal Woolfolk (a legendary Black lawyer and advisor to the Harlem political elite), WIBO was the nation's first comprehensive entrepreneurship program - nuts-and-bolts training designed to help people from low-income and minority communities build growing, profitable businesses. Since its founding, WIBO has graduated more than 18,000 entrepreneurs, 75 percent of whom launched their businesses within a year of completing the course. Further, 42 percent of companies saw an increase in revenue after participating in WIBO. Some graduates have been running their businesses for more than 25 years, a testament to the WIBO's long-term value. WIBO Academy is not a self-study course like many popular learning management systems. WIBO Academy was designed to host live classes and self-study lessons along with our successful interactive peer-to-peer learning. WIBO doesn't teach entrepreneurship. Its programs facilitate discussion, and its budding entrepreneurs answer questions to develop their successful growing style. When you sign up for a WIBO Workshop, be prepared to apply the principles discussed each week to your own specific business. Everything you learn is reinforced by weekly homework assignments that require you to utilize what you have learned by making decisions that prepare your specific companies for success. This is the WIBO Way.Read More