Helping you build your business your way.
Woven provides business training to creatives, freelancers, & entrepreneurs.
You can do work you love, and get paid well.
We recognized that the standard curriculum assumes access to capital, able-bodied stamina, and a relationship to risk that we and our students don't have. Entrepreneurs in our communities — queer, disabled, and BIPOC creatives — were getting business advice built for someone else's reality, so we built programming for our own.
Community-centered entrepreneurship skills for creatives, freelancers, and small business owners.
Whether you want to start a business but don’t know what you want to do yet, or if you’re ready to level up the business you already poured your heart into, we have options!
You want to start a business but you don’t know what you want to do yet? Our Business Starter MiniSeries includes:
Class 1: Boundaries for Creatives
and Entrepreneurs
Class 2: C.R.A.P. Creative Resets for Activated People - Self Regulation Tools to not Crash Out
Class 3: I want to start a business but I don’t know what yet
Class 4: I'm Scared of Social Media!
Class 5: Skeleton of a Business Plan, but not Scary
You want to level up your business? Woven’s 3-Month Entrepreneurship Program is our most comprehensive offering. You will leave with a scaleable business structure that allows you to make more money without working more as you gain traction and a following. Some of the classes include:
Self-Advocacy for the Self-Employed
Set and negotiate rates
Confidence
Practice saying no to misaligned gigs
Be clear about the gigs you want
Boundaries + Your Business
What do you do and what do you not do?
Who is your audience? Who is your work for?
You are your first employee
Designing your brand manual
Marketing funnel and yearly marketing cycle
Making your website
Your Personal and Professional Values
Resourcing Yourself + Burn Out
People Pleasing and Perfectionism in Art + Business
Your Inner Critic + Imposter Syndrome
Seeing your business as part of your body of work as an artist
Creativity / Biz + Marketing as Creative Self Expression
We will have incredible guest teachers offering classes on content creation, finance, and more!
Read more and apply here.
Do you already run a company and want some tailored guidance, or work at an organization that could use some support in creating sustainable flow and creativity in the workplace? We can consult!
Hannah offers one-on-one consulting for entrepreneurs, creatives, and organizations ready to grow with intention. Her work spans business development, DEI strategy and program design, executive coaching, narrative and storytelling, and community engagement — helping clients build strategic partnerships, access grants and alternative funding, craft compelling pitches and proposals, and communicate their mission in ways that open doors. With a client roster that includes Google, Disney, Lyft, the LA Times, and the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, Hannah brings Fortune 500 experience to founders and organizations who are building something that matters.
Mia offers one-on-one support on building your business with tools for keeping it sustainable for you. They will help you figure out what you don’t and don’t do, who your work is for (your audience), how to find creativity with marketing and social media, how to pitch yourself, and more. They’ll help you find your confidence and ask for what you want, as well as say no to gigs that aren’t aligned with the kind of work you want to do. You’ll practice setting and negotiating your rates, pitching your services or products, and you’ll find authentic branding that feels like you.
We offer in-person events in LA! Our events contain an educational component either through a workshop or panel discussion, and feature local small business owners vending their goods, and boy are they goooooood.
We offer online events in the form of panel discussions and interviews.
Our Social Impact Business Guidelines :
These are our principles. They guide everything we do — the work we take on, the partners we choose, the funders we accept, the teachers we platform, and the members we welcome into our community. They are how we decide what is a yes and what is a no.
Woven Business Academy exists to build a queer-centered ecosystem for artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs. The ten guidelines below describe the standards we hold ourselves to as a business and the standards we ask our members, advisors, funders, vendors, and collaborators to grow with us. When something — or someone — does not align with these principles, that is information we act on.
Queer-Centered by Design
Woven is built for LGBTQ+ founders first. Queer, trans, and non-binary entrepreneurs are at the center of our curriculum, hiring, and community — not added on. Pronouns, name changes, and identity shifts are honored across our systems without friction. We do not platform partners and will not accept funding from sources whose policies, donations, or public stances harm queer and trans people.
Equity Across Race, Culture & Language
BIPOC founders, teachers, and advisors are centered in our programming and decision-making, and the cultures and languages our members carry into their businesses are honored — not flattened.
Designed for Different Bodies & Minds
Our programming is built for disabled and neurodivergent members from the start: plain-language communication, varied formats (visual, audio, hands-on, written), shorter chunks, flexible attendance, and captioning on recorded content. We choose venues, vendors, and platforms that meet this standard, and we expand access features — like ASL and sensory-friendly spaces — as budget and partnerships allow.
Economic Justice & Access to Capital
We open doors that traditional capital keeps closed. Scholarship seats and transparent cost and ownership are core to how we run, with a direct pathway to grants and the forthcoming Woven Founder Fund. We want to build an economic ecosystem for and by our people.
Sustainable Pace & Community Accountability
We reject hustle culture in how we teach, run programs, and treat our team. Programs are scoped so members and staff can do their best work without burning out. Our Advisors have a real voice in how Woven runs: we share decisions, finances, and program outcomes openly, take feedback seriously, and repair harm when we cause it.
Local Roots & Environmental Stewardship
Woven is grounded in Los Angeles and the neighborhoods our members serve. We prioritize local vendors, socially-aware operations, and small businesses that strengthen — rather than extract from — their communities. As we expand to new cities, we follow this same principle: rooted before scaled, and accountable to place. We have no interest in being gentrifiers who extract, rather when we enter new spaces it's done intentionally by building connections and giving to the community. We recognize we live and work on land stewarded by peoples who were here long before us, whose land was forcibly taken from them. We pay homage and we pay back as much as we can.
Our Commitment
These principles are how we make decisions. We use them to choose the members we accept into our cohorts, the teachers and advisors we bring in, the partners we collaborate with, the funders we take money from, and the vendors and venues we hire. When a relationship aligns with these guidelines, we lean in. When it doesn't, we say no — and change course.
We’d love to work with you.
Reach out to talk to us about consulting and coaching.
Let’s work together to create a sustainable future for your business.