HEC Up HEC Up
Develop your business skills
Language: French
Program overview
Dedicated to HEC Stand Up certified entrepreneurs, HEC Up is a growth program that supports women in scaling their businesses.
HEC Up provides an outstanding pathway with training in sales and business strategy, themed workshops, personalized mentoring from an HEC advisor, and a strong community of like-minded entrepreneurs!
HEC Up
Objectives
No clients, no business! Commercial expertise is THE essential skill to develop to ensure the sustainability of your business and your financial independence.
The HEC Up program is free for participants and extends the HEC Stand Up initiative, fostering cross-learning, ongoing support, and mentorship for all involved.
With a practical program focused on commercial development, HEC Up enables you to:
✔ Grow your sales (personal goals set at the start of the program)
✔ Develop your business skills
✔ Get your business ready for growth
✔ Strengthen your leadership as a business owner
Program
Launched in 2023, HEC Up is a program from the HEC Paris Social Entrepreneurship Center.
HEC Up offers a journey that is both individual and collective, with a focus on achieving growth:
Online modules featuring videos, practical exercises, and resources for:
- Rethinking the prerequisites for building an effective sales strategy (defining your target, your offer’s added value, the buying journey...)
- Evaluating your sales skills, analyzing your results, and undergoing training for greater success
- Defining and implementing a sales strategy that promises optimal growth
- Mentorship with an expert from the HEC community to guide you, answer your questions, and help you overcome obstacles (individual and small group sessions)
- "Office Hours" sessions with experts to get trained in accounting
- Collective webinars on topics such as networking, time management, and prospecting.
- A supportive community of women, so you never feel alone in your entrepreneurial journey.
Who can join?
To apply to HEC Up, you need to:
- Be a woman entrepreneur certified by HEC Stand Up
- Have an offering that has worked for 4-5 different clients, even if it’s not yet perfect
- Dedicate at least 80% of your time to your project
- Want to join a community of over 900 determined entrepreneurs who engage with each other on business topics, current events, opportunities, advice, and challenges. It’s a collective of women who support each other through action!
Selection process
Application
Selection committee
Final selection
KEY FIGURES
2023
program launching
85+
women supported
10+
sectors represented among HEC UP projects
4
cohorts
5
territories
Our cohorts
Partners
Testimonials
NEWS
Supporting women in Reunion Island who have entrepreneurial projects is what the HEC Stand Up program in Reunion is committed to offering! For the final module of the program, Nathalie Riond, the academic...
The HEC Stand Up program marked its 10th anniversary by inviting photographer Steve Fiehl (H88) to shoot a series of portraits of women whose passage at HEC helped them launch their entrepreneurial career...
On Friday November 25, members of the Bruno Roux de Bézieux Foundation – one of the seven foundations under the auspices of the HEC Foundation – met the participants involved in the final session of the...
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