Stepping Away to Move Forward

by Jennifer Hood, founder and Director of Jump! Gymnastics

Tuesday May 18, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm

 

When the day-to-day operations of your business consume all your time how do you grow? For Jennifer Hood, founder and Director of Jump! Gymnastics this question came early on as her first location quickly became a destination for parents from across Vancouver and classes are now running at capacity each session.  She will discuss what she’s learned about balancing your time between running operations and taking yourself out of day-to-day operations in order to develop systems that can lead to expansion. For early-stage businesses, investing in the future can feel risky. Jennifer will talk about how her clear vision of why she was in business and where she wanted to get to is helping her step away to move forward.

 

Jennifer Hood opened Jump! Gymanstics in the fall of 2008. Jump! provides pay-for-service, once a week gymnastics classes for children in Vancouver between the ages of 6 months and 8 years. The curriculum is designed to help children become active for life by teaching them foundational movement skills. The first Jump! location is in Yaletown.  Jennifer has recently returned from a three-month “maternity leave” following the birth of her third child, which provided a wonderful opportunity to test how her business worked without her driving operations. Jennifer was one of only thirteen women accepted to BC's Forum for Women Entrepreneurs 2010 E-series which started in January. The FWE's highly competitive E-series is a six-month program for women entrepreneurs of early-stage high-growth leverageable businesses.