Carolyn Johnson
Carolyn Johnson is a Business Advisor with over twenty years of experience in small business management and finance. She works with sole proprietors and micro-business owners, small business owners and nonprofit organizations throughout California.
As a Business Advisor, she combines the support and guidance of a business coach with the expertise and hands-on interaction of a business consultant. Carolyn, in active collaboration with her clients, develops effective business plans to guide them to exceed break-even in the early and emerging stage(s) of their business and achieve profitability in the expansion phase of their business. Carolyn also provides comprehensive loan packaging services which includes, based on her experience, a pre-underwriting assessment and presentation to her network of contacts with community, micro- and commercial business lenders. Finally, Carolyn provides strategic and tactical advisory services to business owners on various elements of their business plans, including location planning and financing options.
As a trainer, she facilitates the Simple Steps to Business Success course at Women’s Initiative, is a lecturer in the Peralta Community College District on the topics of Small Business Management, Business Communications, Business Law and Salesmanship; and is a certified trainer for the NxLevel Business curriculum for start-up, micro- , expansion and green businesses.
