Bio
Margaret Jackson
Business Radio Personality & Executive Coach
Margaret Jackson is a respected Bay Area leader, a 15-year Small Business broadcast Radio Personality on AM 1220 KDOW, 10+ years as a Radio Podcaster, Publisher of the Small Business Concierge Magazine, a former Director of the NorCal Regional Small Business Development Center Network, NorCal Regional Small Business Advisor, and a NorCal SBDC Artificial Intelligence University Certified Advisor.
Margaret is a highly experienced and skilled mass-media marketing communications professional, adept at small-business development coaching/consulting and training. She is a Master of Grant Readiness Fitness and a winner of multiple high-value grant awards for high-value customers, with over 30 years in the grant-writing space.
In 2021, Margaret was inducted into the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) and Capella University’s Delta Mu Delta – International Honor Society in Business, Xi Delta Chapter.
Uncommonly Impressive: Building a Business That Attracts Through Presence, Purpose, and Power
Master Your Presence, Power, and Purpose
Created for women-owned and women-operated businesses, nonprofits, ministries, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders, this seminar equips women to show up with confidence, clarity, and excellence. It is designed for the power woman in you who is ready to elevate her voice, strengthen her brand presence, and build a business that attracts the right people, opportunities, and impact.
Professional Development Signature Trainings
Power Woman Power Secrets: The Making of a Power Woman
A transformational training for women who are ready to recognize their authority, sharpen their confidence, and walk boldly in the power of who they are becoming.
Uncommonly Impressive: Becoming Better Than You Were Before.
Uncommonly Impressive challenges women to elevate their presence. This is not about becoming someone else. It is about becoming better than you were before, more intentional, more prepared, more polished, more courageous, and unmistakably you.
Women Are Built Different
A powerful session celebrating the resilience, wisdom, leadership, and unique design of women called to build, lead, serve, and shift atmospheres.
Agent of Disruption: Called to Challenge, Built to Change
A bold leadership training for women who are ready to challenge limitations, disrupt outdated thinking, and become voices of change in their business, ministry, community, or industry.
Small Business Fitness Signature Trainings
Transformational Thinking: Stop Thinking Like a Hustler. Start Building Like a CEO.
This course helps entrepreneurs shift from survival thinking to strategic business-building. It challenges the mindset traps that keep small business owners busy but not profitable, visible but not positioned, and passionate but not prepared.
Think stronger. Decide smarter. Build with intention.
Best for: Aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs
Your Idea Is Not a Business Yet: The Hard Truth Every Entrepreneur Needs Before Launching
Many entrepreneurs fall in love with an idea before they understand the customer, the market, the money, or the model. This course walks entrepreneurs through idea validation, market fit, customer pain points, and the viability of their concept as a real business.
Validate before you invest too much time, money, and emotion.
Best for: Aspiring entrepreneurs, 0–2 years
Grant Ready Is Business Ready: Why Most Small Businesses Are Not Ready for Funding Yet
This course teaches entrepreneurs that grant readiness is not just about finding a grant. It is about having the documents, systems, story, budget, eligibility, and business foundation funders expect.
Prepare the business before chasing the money.
Best for: Entrepreneurs seeking grants or funding
Money Leaks & Profit Blocks: Why Your Business Is Working Hard but Not Keeping Enough
This course exposes the hidden places small businesses lose money: weak pricing, poor margins, unclear offers, inconsistent sales, unnecessary expenses, and lack of financial tracking.
Find the leaks. Fix the gaps. Keep more of what you earn.
Best for: Growing entrepreneurs
Water Your Business & Grow: Marketing, Branding, and Advertising Are Not Optional
This course teaches entrepreneurs why visibility is a growth system, not a luxury. It helps them understand the differences among marketing, branding, advertising, publicity, and sales, and how each supports business growth.
Stop hiding the business. Start watering it with visibility.
Best for: Start Fit, Grow Fit, and Scale Fit entrepreneurs
Price Like You Plan to Stay in Business: Stop Charging From Fear and Start Pricing From Strategy
This course helps entrepreneurs understand pricing, value, costs, margins, positioning, and confidence. It is especially powerful for service providers, consultants, creatives, and local businesses.
Price with confidence, not panic.
Best for: New and growing entrepreneurs