Rose Ward, MBA, is a turnaround professional with over 12 years of classroom experience facilitating business management, professional development, and IT classes.  She teaches others how to innovate and helps entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses to create new wealth. As a consultant, Rose has ten years of business experience in numerous industries, from start-ups to mature businesses. Throughout her career, she has served on the board of various companies and handled projects involving business plan development, grant management, human resource allocations and non-profit management.  She has worked with profit and non-profit entities in the public and private sectors.  Rose’s experience displays her ability to translate key business management and her most important strength is an ability to quickly analyze a company’s strengths and weaknesses and communicate that analysis to the stakeholders. In addition, she has a comprehensive knowledge of the working capital required to start a business, and is working with lenders, the SBDC (Small Business Development Centers), and companies to meet the combined objectives of both.  Rose understands what lenders want and need and understands how companies produce profits and cash flow.