Top Designer Slader on How Creative Professionals Can Get the Financial Skills They Need to Succeed
Friday, September 30, 2022
Libby Slader is one of the region’s leading designers, whose work can be seen in such top-tiered businesses as Giusto at Hammetts Hotel in Newport to the East Side’s Persimmon and major institutions including Brown and RISD.
It was participating in Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program that Slader said enabled her to weather the pandemic and grow her company.
“Going back to the COVID situation, it was really great to have the things set up for my business that made it easy for me from the financial perpsective,” said Slader. “Let me just say before I did the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, I was, I would say, doing business by Braille. I’m a creative person…the business acumen that comes naturally to some people, to a lot of creative people, it’s not that great.”
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST“So what the Goldman Sachs program allowed me to do was to really learn about the different important aspects of my company that I might not have been able to explore or even feel confident exploring, like really understanding the financial things, HR, legal ramifications, marketing — I think that it really gave me the opportunity to see things with a different lens,” she added.
The deadline for the next program is October 10, 2022.
Learn more about joining the next cohort here.
The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program is hosted by the Community College of Rhode Island and classes take place at their Warwick campus.
This series is part of a content partnership between GoLocal and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses.
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