Macy’s Exclusive Workshop Schools Entrepreneurs How to Make ‘Magic’

Next Year’s Workshop

Next year is the fifth anniversary of the workshop and Macy’s is planning to go big. They are playing around with an idea to showcase former grads and invite retailers to see what they have to offer.

Outler wouldn’t change much from when she started the program four years ago.

“The first class was like no other, just because we didn’t know the impact that we will have on those companies. It meant everything to us. To help someone connect the dots and make that leap. When we built this from the ground, I didn’t think we could do it to this extent. The first class was great but this last class for me, the one we just completed, just nailed it. I think because we selected the best companies, and I think this group was at a level where they could receive it and turn it quickly into action and that magic happened for them fairly quickly.”

Over the next couple of days, Black Enterprise will have profiles on some of the 2014 workshop grads and the past grads who have gone on to do big things.