Run Your Business - Don't Let It Run You! SCORE
Run Your Business. Don't Let It Run You!
Hosted by: Business Connections and the Erie Chamber of Commerce
- Learn what SCORE is and about the resources they provide
- Strategies to find the "why" in your business
- Zero in on who your customer is and what they are looking for
- Business Plan light
- Sales projection exercise
- Activities to support your business financial goals
Free for all Chamber Members - $5.00 for non members
Coffee will be provided
Presented by: Mike Forney
Mike has been an active small business counselor since 2004 when he helped form the Steamboat Springs SCORE group. (Formerly called Service Corps of Retired Executives, SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Following his relocation to Fort Collins in 2017 Mike has continued SCORE counseling in Larimer County and has already met with more than 200 clients assigned by the Denver office or directly from the national SCORE website. Mike is also a certified counselor with the Larimer County Small Business Development Center (SBDC), focusing primarily on CARES Act advances and funding for small business owners in Larimer County. Although most of his consulting has been in the general area of start-up businesses, he
has worked actively with existing small business on partnership issues, strategic and
business planning, personnel management and commercial and real estate lending. He has also counseled numerous non-profit organizations. Mike retired in 2003 as president and CEO of PW Funding, a national commercial and multi-family mortgage banking company headquartered in New York City. PW Funding provided more than $1.5 billion in commercial real estate financing over a two-year period under Mike’s leadership. Following retirement and a move to Colorado he started Management Dynamics, a consulting business working with business owners and partnerships. He began his commercial mortgage banking career as an owner and chief operating officer of Larson Financial Resources in Bernardsville, New Jersey in 1985. Forney is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB). He was a member of the national board of directors for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America for ten years until his retirement and served on the multi-family advisory panels for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Prior to 1985, Mike was employed for 18 years as a public relations, public affairs and national advertising manager with AT&T in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and New York City. He also spent eight years as an announcer and news director at four different radio broadcast outlets in the Pacific Northwest.
He is Past President of the Routt County United Way, former Chairman of the Yampa
Valley Regional Airport Commission, past president of the Steamboat Springs Rotary
Club, past district governor of Rotary District 5440 (Northern Colorado, Wyoming and parts of Idaho and Nebraska) and a founding board member of the Steamboat Springs Main Street organization. He is now an active member of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins-Foothills. Mike is also a children’s story-teller with the Spellbinders group and now shares stories every month with fifth graders in both the Thompson and Poudre school districts.
He was a general aviation pilot for 50 years flying volunteer humanitarian missions for the national Angel Flight organization and the Department of Homeland Security before selling his last plane in 2014. Mike now lives with his wife Janet Finley in Fort Collins.
Run Your Business - Don't Let It Run ...
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Date and Time
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM MST
January 16th
7:30 - 8:30am - Seminar
8:30-9:00am - Questions and Networking
Location
Calvary Bible Church
615 Evans St., Erie, CO
Fees/Admission
Free for Chamber Members
$5.00 for non members
