Business Impact NW
Ericka Whitfield, MBA, is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in business coaching, finance, and health transformation. Currently serving as a Business Coach and Trainer at Business Impact NW, Ericka focuses on empowering female entrepreneurs through training and financing opportunities. As a Transformation/Health Coach with Optavia, Ericka provides personalized mentorship to clients, guiding them to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes. Previous roles include positions at State Farm, Matrix Finance and Accounting, and Tacoma Housing Authority, showcasing a strong background in accounting and claims management. Ericka holds an MBA in Management and Strategy from Western Governors University and a B.B.A. in Organizational Leadership & Management from the University of Washington.
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Business Impact NW
Business Impact NW provides coaching, classes, and capital to meet the needs of low/moderate-income business owners and underserved areas in Washington and Oregon; particularly, serving women, persons of color, veteran, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ owned businesses in order to create positive economic impact within these communities. Business Impact NW offers financing and coaching services at every stage in a business’s development. Through our in-house programs, we offer support classes and one-on-one counseling for all entrepreneurs, from startup to established business ownership. As a community lender, we offer business loans from $5,000-$350,000 to qualified small business entrepreneurs. We also focus on partnerships across the Pacific Northwest in order to deliver robust opportunities. This collaboration includes credit unions, banks, corporations, private foundations and gov’t agencies including the SBA and CDFI; local gov’t HUD and economic development departments; our own robust training/coaching programs with the WA Women’s Business Center and the Veterans Business Outreach Center; and diverse local community development not-for-profit partner organizations.