Innovation Lab
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a 3 month business residency for creative entrepreneurs
breath time, money &creative freedom back in your business
without selling your soul or your free time
You’re pretty much at capacity, but you want more
But you aren’t willing to compromise your integrity or wellbeing to grow…..
so you’re stuck
You don’t want to burn yourself out to achieve more & you’re kinda bored with the monotony of the day to day grind, plus you’re maxed out.
You are devoted to your business but it’s not giving you everything you need.
You don’t just want something new or different.
You are craving a turning point in your career
Where you build the next stage of your business to buy your time back & allow for your creative mind to thrive
You built it up & booked it out…
But your business is still falling short & you’re not sure what to do next.
Build a team? Create a course? How about a group program?!
The entrepreneurial urge to start something NEW is the creative-knee-jerk reaction that keeps so many visionaries trapped in the starving artist loop & STUCK on a plateau.
(Not to mention the Biz-fluencers on the internet giving FOMO with their 10,000 options for you to chose from, keeps you feeling dizzy about what to do next.)
And here’s the truth:
Prescriptive scaling will kill your passion.
Chasing the new again? That’s how your genius gets lost in busywork.
And doing nothing? That’s not an option either.
You’ll wither. Creatively, emotionally, financially.
But that’s not what’s going to happen, cause I built you a loophole
one that’s built for the mind of an entrepreneur with a heavy does of creative fire
A framework that lets you evolve without starting over.
The Innovation Loophole
the perfect fusion of the entrepreneur + creative mind
1. Curate
You've already built a business. In order to create the growth you want, you gotta clear some stuff out. It's a necessary process & without it you’re gonna stay stuck.
You need to evaluate what you have built & eliminate what doesn’t fit in the future vision, so you are left with a solid structure for your next growth stage.
Take what you have and make it the best it can be before doing more.
Evaluate + Eliminate
2.Beta
Experimenting is a regular business practice for thriving businesses, but most solopreneurs or small businesses don’t do it or even think about it doing it.
In this phase, you put on your entrepreneur hat & test your market. You need to learn what people actually want, how they want it & why. You also need to figure out what you are truly interested in doing so you aren’t just making something because you think it’s the right thing to do. We do this by Beta testing so we get real results & data.
Test + Learn
3.Create
Once you know what your business needs, what your market wants & you are excited about doing, you can start creating. Yay!
Putting creation last allows you to really make something special, because everything is lined up and ready to go. And I promise, the opportunity for using your creative spark will be vast.
You’ll be set up for launch with a warm market who is ready for what you offer.
Make + Launch
But what if I already launched something & it’s not working?
I truly understand how frustrating that can be. Let’s get to the bottom of why and fix it.
The Benefit of the Beta
Entrepreneurs notoriously build their businesses like building a boat while going out to sea. Setting sail before you’re ready, just sets you up to drown.
The Beta test is like building a boat and letting it float before getting in and setting sail.
The Innovation Lab
made for the entrepreneur + creative mind to thrive
You want growth
that feels like art & a strategy you can stick to with ease
The Innovation Lab is your 3 month creative business residency to get your business ready for it’s next evolution.
It’s a lab space & a classroom.
It’s a creative haven where you can test & prod your ideas until they come together in a cohesive vision.
In the Lab you learn along side other entrepreneurs doing amazing things like you. You gain the tools & skills you need to build what’s next.
If you’ve been trying to scale while stifling your creative rebel side, let me show you a smarter way that I designed for people like us.
Sharon is an expander, a wizard and a pioneer of intelligent, mindful business and personal growth. She gave me just one tip that single handedly grew my income even easier, faster and more efficient than I thought possible. This is a journey and I’m thrilled I invested in myself by joining!
Conrad Gonzalez, High Desert Massage
I didn’t make a business program based on a trend
The market has changed so drastically thanks to the 2020 coaching boom
endless garbage courses flooding the internet with quick fix programs based on what’s trending
I’ve seen it all & wasted money on more than I’d like to admit….
✖︎ 60K in 60 days
✖︎ 10K Instagram subscribers in a 30 days
✖︎ Launch your Stan Store & quit your day job
✖︎ The Canva hack that will retire your husband
✖︎ Heal your nervous system to make a million
✖︎ The course collection that’s really a word salad
✖︎ Monetize your podcast to be the next Oprah
✖︎ Travel the world working 4 hours week
That’s not what this is.
This is a high touch program for creative entrepreneurs crafted from studying countless businesses that succeeded & even more that failed, to learn what methods are tried & true.
This is a program created from years of experience working with creative entrepreneurs & seeing the same repeating patterns time & time again.
business school + creative residency= Innovation Lab
I’m Sharon
Part creative director, part business strategist, full-time creative rebel
I’ve spent my 15 year career at the intersection of creative identity & business evolution.
As an art teacher, gallery curator & residency director, I’ve helped artists make sense of their brilliance & create moving bodies of work.
As a grad student in Entrepreneurship, I’ve studied what actually scales (hint: the answer is strategy & innovation) & what kills momentum
As a business growth strategist I push entrepreneurs forward to grow their business with proven methods to turn their business into their life’s work.
I get the creative brain & how it works.
I also understand what a business needs for longevity.
Too many brilliant entrepreneurs get bored, frustrated or burnt out trying to scale while running their business.
I did. I see it all the time. It’s a real issue.
So I created a solution.
A place for you to Innovate your next phase of business…
Sharon is a lifesaver. I had been spinning my wheels creating a business offering that was not right for me or my demographic. The general idea was there, but Sharon helped me craft it into something that solves real problems for my clients, as well as aligning with my goals.
Sharon is the absolute best and I highly recommend that everyone stop trying to figure it all out on your own and call her!
Jorde Matthews of Be Someone Designs
By the end of your 3 month business Lab residency you will have:
★ A business that works more efficiently & effectively
★ A clear understanding of who your target market is
★ Repeatable methods to scale (again & again)
★ Your unique position that sets you apart in your industry
★ More space on your calendar & excitement for your business
★ Confidence in your next move
PLUS + Your Innovation Toolkit comes with structure, strategy, a dope AF community of other scaling entrepreneurs & a trained master’s level business mentor (that’s me) to help you innovate your stuck-ness.
Your Innovation Took Kit
1 to 1 strategy calls where I personally help you work through the who, what, when, how & why of what’s next & it’s all tracked in your personal Notion Sketchbook.
Lab Calls
Live weekly group trainings & work review to help you build community & learn from each other. It’s a mix of workshops & group coaching.
Teaching Lab
Get my eyes on your work for edits, updates and high fives. Copy review, course evaluation or whatever else it is you are creating, gat my feedback weekly.
Personal Reviews & Edits
Sharon is the bee's knees! I was at a point in my creative business where I felt like I was plateauing and really needed a professional outside perspective to help me grow into the future. She has been more than helpful in this pursuit by identifying what I needed to shed, refine and discover. I can't thank her enough for the clarity she has given and look forward to her continued guidance
TJ Smith, Stray Wild Studio
The Innovation Lab
Stop trying to recreate what others are doing and make what is right for your business
The A’s to your Q’s
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The Business Residency inside the Innovation Lab is a dedicated period of strategic development, experimentation, and refinement like a creative residency, but for your business.
Instead of trying to work in your next big move in between client calls or late at night, the time in the Lab gives you structure, support, and a protected space to work on your business with expert eyes on it.
During your time in the Lab, you’ll be beta testing an offer, system, or strategy that fits your next stage of growth. You’ll have consistent access to me as your mentor & strategist, plus learn a repeatable innovation process you’ll use long after the residency ends. Think of it as pressing stop on winging it and finally getting into flow with a real plan.
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A HIGHLY supported container to work on the future of your business. In the Lab you have
A real partner in the process. 1 to 1 strategy calls with me plus copy & work review.
Your own Innovation Toolkit in Notion, so you can track insights, experiments, and decisions in one place and use the method again anytime your business hits a growth edge.
A repeatable innovation process to help you test and validate ideas instead of guessing.
Teaching Labs: bi-weekly live calls with me and other Lab members to learn new skills , ask questions, get feedback and keep moving forward.
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I have too, which is why I designed this program for what you actually need to be successful. The Innovation Lab is built like a hybrid between business school and an artist residency. I’m not going to release you into the wild with a little information and some videos.
You’ll bring your real business challenges and projects into the Lab, and we’ll refine them together. That includes things like copy review, offer structure, business model evaluation, and idea testing. You will see me every week for 3 months and we will make sure life doesn’t life you into not finishing.
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They are dope af.
Calls consist of a small intimate group of creative entrepreneurs getting together to work through their business growth. Each person gets time with me to bring to the table what they are working through, so there is never a lull in your progress OR I will teach on a process or skill that we all need to work on.
Sometimes other participants will share their insight if appropriate. You get a community of like minded people & regular support to keep you growing with ease.
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ALWAYS. I will always offer a payment plan for every budget. My goal is to make business growth as accessible as possible. There are so many over priced programs out there with limited support. This is not that.
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ABSOLUTELY YES! I work with creative minded entrepreneurs, which is pretty much any entrepreneur really. Since this is ultimately a creative process, that’s why I use the term creative entrepreneur. But seeing as you have made it this far in the sales page, I would say you are a perfect fit.
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It depends. In our first call, we aim to Curate what you already have. By evaluating your current business we streamline what you have in order to eliminate any piddly little shit. That will give you some space to breath so you can start the next phase of growth. Most of my clients spend a few hours a week working on what they need to to get momentum.
The Innovation Lab
Get off the plateau & grow