Start Strong. Grow Strong. Stay Strong.

As Illinois Small Business Development Center advisors for over ten years, Joanne Osmond and Claudia Pannell helped hundreds of small business owners find their path to success. Offering one-on-one consulting targeted to small businesses and entrepreneurs, they are dedicated to providing the best advice and resources. They are trusted business partners offering expert advice on business plans and development, loan readiness, financial, marketing, and operations. They have facilitated a variety of business workshops to sharpen the entrepreneur’s skills and have developed their own courseware and workbooks for in-person classes before turning their focus to online training and counseling.

Joanne Osmond & Claudia Pannell
Pannell holds an undergraduate degree in business and a MBA from the University of Dallas. Osmond received an undergraduate degree in education from Purdue University and an MBA from Webster University.

Joanne Osmond – Joanne.Osmond@SmallBusinessSpokenHere.com

Claudia Pannell –Claudia.Pannell@SmallBusinessSpokenHere.com

Find your path to success with small business expertise. Offering As your partner targeted to small businesses and entrepreneurs, we are dedicated to providing you the best advice and resources. We are your trusted business partner offering expert advice on business plans and development, loan readiness, financial, marketing, and operations through a variety of business workshops to sharpen your skills.

Accountability Partners – Appointments are available online.

Weekly Webinar – Take charge of your future – Our webinars “Know to Grow” is designed to give you, the small business owner or the “small business owner to be” all the tools and techniques to make your venture a success. Whatever the question, we have an answer from accounting and finance to sales and marketing, from eCommerce and web sites to doing business globally, we can help you grow.

Monitor – View your progress with GrowthWheel online.

Questions, Free Counseling, Courses-If you have questions and want to discuss a topic, you can schedule an appointment with an advisor located at a center close to you.

Please direct questions to Instructor@SmallBusinessSpokenHere.com.