SF-CAPS:  Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more then their peers and create unexpected results. Whether you're an expert or new to the world of consulting, coaching, authoring, and or sp …

Are you curious about getting your business to not only grow but thrive? This group is for women who own or run a business, whether it be a small business or solo business. Coaches, consultants, speakers, holistic practitioners and traditional, are welcome! All entrepreneurs, freelancers, small business owners and professionals are welcome! This group is built so you can: 1. Surround yourself, meet, and network with other women in business, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Grow your re …

My name is Mary Liu and I am the Organizer of this Meetup and I welcome you to the Premier Women's Business Network.  I, like yourself, am an entrepreneur and have been for the past 28 years so I know the challenges of trying to balance it all.  From a business, to your children, your husband or partner and everything else in between. I own several businesses including Empowered Women Speakers, a visibility consulting firm that provides resources for speakers, coaches, trainers, and entrepreneu …

As women, we face unique challenges daily. Whether we work in the corporate world or as a stay-at-home mom. This meet-up group is for women who are ready to explore all possibilities, by using our spirit, mind, and body to connect with each other and our inner-power.   As a Leadership & Life Management coach, I empower and teach women to lead, no matter in what environment. Through discovery, growth and sustainability we can achieve the life we desire, regardless of our past or current circumsta …

Coming together to support our businesses and self-care, thereby enriching our ability to be of service to our constituents. Networking for collective wisdom and knowledge around business strategy, customer development, marketing, internet and social media, collaboration across disciplines, jobs listings and more. A focus on holistic, preventative, integrative, lifestyle offerings: Nutrition, Life Coaches, Yoga, Movement, Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Ayurveda, Expres …

Asian American Business Connection is a group exclusively for Asian professionals. Asians have a particular way of doing business so this group's mission is to grow, learn and educate from each other while enhancing our business skills through networking, events, guest speakers, and collaborating with other organizations. AABC  believe, "In order for us to get what we want we need to help others get what they want". That said, each member is an advocate for each others profession. We also exchan …

Have you been to a business networking event where conversation was stilted? Or where your conversation partner seemed to be trying to assess if you might be a potential client, rather than being interested in who you really are? Have you learned an elevator pitch technique that sounded great, but felt forced when it actually came out of your mouth? Do you feel uncomfortable when networking, or even dread attending events?When we seek to grow our businesses, find new positions, and make new cont …

We welcome those who are either already executive coaches or have an interest in becoming one, to join us in conversation, community and learning. Group organizer and CEO of Envision Global Leadership, Jeff Evans.Ph.D. will lead the groups in stimulating conversation to support development of executive coaching skills, discuss emerging trends and create connections for our expanding network. (Envision Global Leadership (EGL) is a premier firm focused on developing leaders with skills to lead i …

if you are a self-aware entrepreneur or want to be one - one who strives to make a real difference in the world. We are changing names and changing our mission - formerly The Bay Area Entrepreneurs Network, we now focus on those who desire to be conscious about the role they play in changing lives. This is the opportunity to network with like-minded self-aware peers, learn how to grow your business while growing yourself and changing the world. My name is Jonathan Bender, and it's my pleasure to …

Coaches inspire our clients to be the best they can be. One of the activities that this group does is to meet to talk about best practices, share challenges, coach each other, discuss new findings, experiment with new tools, seek support. In general we are there for each to continue our learnings, our skills and our talents. We are a caring, sharing , proactive group of co-active coaches. Our skills and experience are as diverse as we are. You should join us if you are a co-active coach who foll …

Throughout the week the SF Free School offers free classes to anyone and everyone who wants to learn, have fun and meet new people. Classes we’ve offered have been in dance, drumming, martial arts, philosophy, dating, meditation, improv, yoga, writing - and many other topics as well. Though the mix of classes and events we hold varies over time, some weeks with many events and others with just a few, much of what we held in the past was out of a yoga and dance studio, and hence, in the past, we’ …

San Francisco Professional Career Women connects ambitious professional women through a series of events, social media & kateblakeinc.com. The purpose of this Meetup group is to enable Bay Area women to reach their ultimate potential by offering a platform to promote, connect and support other women locally and globally. At the Vancouver Peace Summit in September 2009, the Dalai Lama stated that we are seeing the rise of the feminine energy globally as we move toward a more compassionate, empath …

The objective of the VBE (Virtual Business Ecosystem) group is to help every small business, start-ups, and non-profit organization to harness the power of the latest Cloud Computing, Virtual Events, and Social Media for Explosive Growth & Unfair Advantage! Top 5 Reasons to Join this group: Discover the Secret behind Apple, Amazon, & Google for Sustainable Growth & Unfair Advantage. Brainstorm for the next disruptive business ideas & model for the next Google & Facebook. Meet your co-founder a …

This meet up is for business professionals who want to speak with power and confidence so that exciting new clients come running up, begging to work with them.

We're teaching designers how to think like entrepreneurs. Whether you work for a corporation, start-up or as a freelance designer, join our group and learn how to stay passionate about your work, communicate with all types of clients effectively, market yourself and more! Learning and applying good business skills are imperative, especially in a fast-moving industry. There is a lot of buzz about design founders. Why not bring the founders, developers and the designers together so the designers …

DaVinci Institute is proud to launch DaVinci Coders in both Denver and San Francisco. The purpose of DaVinci Coders is to reboot your life and sharpen your professional skills. These classes are all about creating return on investment. Whether you are self-employed or looking to bolster your resume, DaVinci Coders will provide you with the necessary skills to compete in the marketplace. DaVinci Coders instructors provide not only technical knowledge, but practical real-world solutions. Instructo …

This is a free, open group for those who are interested in working together to make things happen! This group is a Mastermind group based on the concept described in Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich.  It's a group of likeminded people who meet frequently and work together to achieve our goals.   You should join this mastermind group if you: Are an entrepreneur, artist, or freelancer, or otherwise are doing something cool in this world that is self-directed Have a definite, concrete g …

This Toastmaster's group meets at the end of Sansome Street near Fisherman's Wharf. Toastmasters is a peer-to-peer group organized to help people increase their public speaking and presentation skills.

Are you in the workforce and looking to go back to graduate school for your MBA? Are you a business school graduate in need of some refresher courses? Are you a business owner looking to better manage your business? If you answered yes to any of these, join us for free MBA lessons, each geared toward a specific topic and taught by students in the accelerated MBA program at the Hult Business School.

Re-inventing coaching, career planning, health and personal growth through online services and social networks. Read more at Self-Development 2.0. Holding in-person gatherings in San Francisco, hoping to meet online as well.

The Ivy League Alumni Club of San Francisco www.ivyclubsf.com Welcome, San Francisco Ivy Leaguers! We are a face-to-face social network of alumni from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Upenn, and Yale. We host professional networking events and publish a weekly newsletter with job postings catered to alumni of these schools in the San Francisco area.  We also organize career enhancing professional events weekly and monthly in our city. In order to become an official me …

The San Francisco chapter of the American Marketing Association is the leading organization for professional and student marketers in the Bay Area. Founded in 1937, our chapter reflects the innovation, standards of excellence, and industry and population diversity for which the Bay Area is known and celebrated. Our goal is to advance our members’ professional capabilities and career development opportunities, while connecting with the leading-edge Bay Area marketing professionals.

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

The purpose of this  mastermind meetup group for men in business is to create a forum for men that want to get real, grow themselves and their business.We believe that personal growth supports business growth. THIS GROUP IS NOT ANOTHER SUPERFICIAL NETWORKING GROUP THAT'S JUST ABOUT REFERRALS. While that may be a measure of success for many in most networking groups, in our Real Men Real Business Meet up, success for you may be a personal breakthrough that supports your career efforts, a new clie …

Our first Group Summit with great speakers and venue will happen in 2013, projected month: October. Location: Maui, Hawai'i - beautiful Beaches, Palm Trees and Sunset! Yes, we are working to make good things happen!  Join us! Our non-profit LGBT Business Summit Meetup Group is focused on: Business Professionals, Managers and Owners in our Community. Bringing our Community of Business Professionals, Managers and Owners together. Acknowledgement of our Community Contribution, Talents and Accom …

Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking. We meet at the Hult International Business School every Thursday. Come join us to practice you …

This group is for people who are interested in making a difference in the world through their business. Maybe you offer your services in a healing capacity, or a coaching capacity or a consulting capacity. Either way, you are committed to doing it authentically, with open hearts and a strong desire to make a significant impact in a way that sustains you emotionally and financially. In this grop, we are committed to sharing business & marketing strategies from this place, sheltered from a world o …