Elisa Balabram is a writer, an Intuitive Business Coach and the Author of Ask Others, Trust Yourself: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Key to Success and Mending a Broken Heart: Lili's Magic Journey. She enjoys sharing her own self-discovery, spiritual, healing, out of her comfort zone, challenging at times and magical journey with women to empower them to achieve their full potential, start their businesses, and pursue their dreams and life’s purpose. In addition to providing one-on-one business coaching, Elisa Balabram hosts webinars, and virtual programs.
She founded and published an online magazine for women business owners from 2003 to 2012, archives of the interviews can be found at Womenandbiz.com. Between 2004 and 2012 she was the director of the SBA Women’s Business Center: in the Bronx for three years and in Brooklyn for five years. Through one-on-one business coaching, workshops and long-term training, she assisted aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners with starting businesses, creating their goals and vision, moving beyond their fears, overcoming barriers, writing business plans, securing loans, winning business plan competitions, developing and executing marketing and sales strategies, and with growing their businesses. The NYS Entrepreneurial Assistance Program she also ran in Brooklyn received the Excellence in Business Award in 2010 and in 2012 from the Empire State Development Corporation.
Ms. Balabram was named the U.S. Small Business Administration New York District 2008 Women in Business Champion of the Year. She taught Entrepreneurial and Family Business courses to undergraduate BBA and graduate MBA students at Zicklin School of Business/Baruch College from 2012 to 2022, and served as a Business Mentor at Baruch College/SBDC from 2016 to 2022.
Prior to moving to New York, she assisted in running her family’s business (coffee shop and chocolate business) in Brazil.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington - Bothell, an MBA in Entrepreneurship Management from Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, CUNY, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.
You can follow her on Twitter @womenandbiz