Certified Entrepreneurial Professional (CEP)
The only entrepreneurship program built around a stage-based professional certification pathway. Built and taught by a university entrepreneurship professor and real-world founder.
Earn Your CEP Certification
Why a Certification, Not Just Another Course
Anyone can sell you a business course. My Venture Coach is the only place you can earn a stage-based professional credential for building your business: the Certified Entrepreneurial Professional (CEP).
Every course you complete earns a stackable certificate. Complete all three and earn the full CEP designation, a digital badge and official certificate you can showcase on LinkedIn, your resume, or in front of investors, bankers, and partners.
This isn't a one-off class. It's an ecosystem. Every course includes expert-led instruction, coaching support, and a community that stays with you as your business grows. Education built around your stage, not a one-size-fits-all playbook.
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Course Overview & Certification Pathway
The Certified Entrepreneurial Professional (CEP) designation is the gateway to entrepreneurial success. This certification demonstrates mastery of essential business skills, including business model development, strategic launch planning, and growth strategies. Designed for aspiring and established entrepreneurs, the CEP equips you with the tools and knowledge to confidently create, manage, and scale a successful business.
Venture Mapping
Idea Stage: Plan Your Business
You'll Learn
How to identify market opportunities and build a sound, validated business model
Perfect For
Entrepreneurs starting a business or refining an idea
You'll Earn
Certificate in Business Model Development
Self-Paced: $497
Live Cohort: $1,497
Launch Navigation
Launch Stage: Bring It to Market
You'll Learn
Launch planning, branding, and operational strategy, with the ability to assess and pivot
Perfect For
Entrepreneurs preparing for market entry or in the early stage
You'll Earn
Certificate in Business Launch Strategy
Self-Paced: $497
Live Cohort: $1,749
Growth Mapping
Growth Stage: Scale What Works
You'll Learn
Scaling operations, process optimization, and sustainable long-term growth
Perfect For
Business owners ready to scale and optimize
You'll Earn
Certificate in Business Growth Strategy & Scaling
Self-Paced: $497
Live Cohort: $1,997
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How it works
Enroll in Courses
Each My Venture Coach course corresponds to a business stage and is designed to build critical entrepreneurial skills, personal empowerment and provide decision making guidance along the journey.Β
Earn Certificates
Upon completing each course requirements, certificates recognize mastery in specific areas of entrepreneurship.
Achieve CEP Designation
Complete all three courses and certificates to earn the Certified Entrepreneurial Professional (CEP) designation. This certification demonstrates comprehensive expertise in designing, launching, and scaling a successful business.
Showcase the Achievement
Your digital badge and official certificate can be shared on LinkedIn, your resume, or with potential investors, bankers, and collaborators, positioning you as a credible, capable entrepreneur.
Key Program Benefits
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Learn from someone who has taught it, led it, and lived it
The CEP pathway was built by Kristi Mitchell, MBA, a university entrepreneurship professor, founder of multi-million dollar businesses, and director of a nationally recognized entrepreneurship program honored as a 2026 USASBE national winner.
Before academia, she spent more than a decade as a Fortune 500 executive, and she has owned and operated her own companies since 2004. Every course in this pathway blends four decades of building real businesses with more than ten years of teaching entrepreneurs how to build theirs.
You're not learning theory from a marketer. You're learning university-level frameworks from a professor who runs businesses today.
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