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

Which kinda scares you since 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 now you’re not sure what to do next. Build a team? Create a course? How about a group program?! Every time you try to launch or create something new as a knee jerk response to feeling the need for growth, it takes you right back to where you have been.

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.

But here’s the deal, your business is unique & creative just like you. It is going to take more than you trying to reverse engineer a stock photo level growth method.

You want growth that looks, feels & sounds like you.

Growth that not only pays your bills, but allows for you to secure a brighter future for yourself.

More than anything, you want growth that excites you and takes you to the next stage of your career.


It’s time to enter your next stage of business, but in order to do that

You need a clear method to innovate your growth

one that’s built for the mind of an entrepreneur with a heavy does of creative fire

The Innovation Method

my proven 3 step system for business growth

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.

Part creative director, part business strategist, full-time creative rebel

I’m Sharon

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…

The Innovation Lab

the 3 month business residency you need for the growth you want

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

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.

business school + creative residency= Innovation Lab

By the end of your 3 month business residency you will have:

★ A more organized version of your current business (think work less, make more)

★ A clear understanding of who your target market is (like they are your besties)

★ A repeatable method to scale again (and again) like the entrepreneurial master you are

★ A Beta run under your belt of whatever you decide to build or create with a lot of data to help you make it

★ More space on your calendar for living a full life

★ Confidence in your next move because it’s carefully crafted, tested & rooted in your genius

And you’re not doing it alone. 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 turn your stuckness into something stunning.

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

Your Innovation Took Kit

Deep dive 1 to 1 strategy calls where I personally help you work through whats holding you back as we move you forward, and 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

Think office hours with the professor. I open my virtual doors once a week to work through your biggest hang up at the moment.

Office Hours

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

The Innovation Lab

Stop trying to recreate what others are doing and make what is right for your business

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

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 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.

The Innovation Lab

Get off the plateau & grow

Answers to your Q’s

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • Office Hours: weekly 1 to 1 time to step into my office and ask me a question or two you need answers to ASAP

    • Teaching Labs: weekly live calls with me and other Lab members to learn new skills , ask questions, get feedback and keep moving forward.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Think of it as time with the professor every week to step into my office and ask me a question or two.

    You can submit work ahead of time that we can review together, or you can come with what’s on your mind at the time.

  • 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.

    Payment plans start at as little as $250 a month.

  • 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.

  • 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