Training & Education

All courses are practitioner-based and taught by industry veterans with years of extensive experience in designing and building sustainable entrepreneurship programs. Courses are offered either online or in person at our events hosted around the globe in a more formal classroom setting.

Current Training Opportunities

Entrepreneurship Center Management Certificate

Our Entrepreneurship Center Management Certificate (ECM) program has been the premier industry credential for staff of incubators, accelerators, coworking spaces, and other entrepreneurship centers for the last decade. The program involves a four-course curriculum and a series of exams. Regardless of whether you’re a 30-year industry veteran or just starting out, the ECM certificate provides insights and lays the foundation for learning how to build and sustain a high-growth entrepreneurship program.

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Advanced Mentor Development Certification

This interactive certification course equips participants with tools and strategies to design and manage impactful mentoring programs. It explores the profound value of mentorship, emphasizing its role in startup success and personal growth. The session guides attendees through the three essential phases of a mentoring program—preparation, activation, and evaluation—while grounding mentorship in both practical frameworks and philosophical insights. Participants will engage in discussions, learn to identify strong mentor profiles, and understand the dynamic nature of mentor-mentee relationships. 

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Additional training opportunities

NewCo Academy Courses

NewCo (short for New Company) Academy focuses on helping startup companies achieve success. These courses will give you the training and resources you need to teach specific concepts and tools to the entrepreneurs with whom you work. In addition to exclusive access to all the materials, you will receive a certificate to show you are a certified trainer of that course.

An Ecosystem Development Workshop: Build Your Community Framework to Accelerate Regional Collaboration

This course will help participants create or refine their communities’ entrepreneurship roadmap through several exclusively developed exercises and proven tools, drawing on the experience of leading regional innovation ecosystem developers. Course leaders will guide attendees through every aspect of the development of their roadmap, including stakeholder/asset mapping (community discovery), program vetting and deployment planning, and early assessment resources (community health check-ups). This is a one-of-a-kind,  immersive workshop for entrepreneurship centers interested in deepening their connections with their local ecosystems.

Entrepreneurship Center Revenue and Grant Strategies

This highly valuable course is a must-do for any level of entrepreneurship center manager. Led by an industry veteran who has fostered sustainable incubators and entrepreneurial ecosystems, attendees will learn tips, tricks, and fundraising insights sure to bring in income. Attendees will walk through a number of business models as well as winning award proposals of millions of dollars. The course includes resources including grant templates, awarded proposals, samples, guides for successful revenue streams, sponsorship packets, standard client equity requests, and more, all of which will be available in the Exchange community long after the course is over.