Speaking
“If you are fortunate enough to meet, hear or hire Kathleen
my advice is to listen intently – you will learn a lot you’ll not find anywhere else.”
–Barry E James, Founder, The Crowdfunding Center & TheCrowdDataCenter
Kathleen Minogue, Founder and CEO of Crowdfund Better
Kathleen Minogue is a crowdfunding educator, speaker and ecosystem builder. In 2012, she founded Crowdfund Better, the leading crowdfunding education and technical assistance organization in the U.S. to guide entrepreneurs how to use crowdfunding strategically to unlock the financial and creative support of their networks to fund projects not supported by traditional finance. Kathleen is the creator of The Crowdfund Better Process™ and has coached highly successful donation, rewards and investment crowdfunding campaigns. She advocates for crowdfunding as a path to bankability for entrepreneurs declined by lenders and is particularly focused on bringing the crowdfunding opportunity to women, minority and rural entrepreneurs.
Kathleen has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Crowdfund Insider, Dance Business Weekly and Forbes, and has presented at the Director’s Guild of America, America’s Small Business Development Centers National Conference, Association for Women’s Business Centers National Conference, Crowd Invest Summit, Crowdfunding Deep Impact UK, and Global Crowdfunding Convention. She has also contributed to access-to-capital initiatives including the PwC Women Unbound report and the Milken Institute/SBA Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets. Kathleen is focused on utilizing crowdfunding to encourage entrepreneurship, economic development and job creation, and has developed plug-in crowdfunding training programs for small business assistance organizations and incubators including The Local Crowd 4SE Incubator funded by the National Science Foundation, FundBlackFounders Incubator, Crowdfund Idaho, and Impresario by NEW.
Prior to Crowdfund Better, Kathleen spent many years in the field of education and worked in the investment banking division of JPMorgan building relationships with technology venture capitalists. She is a graduate of Drew University and the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. Kathleen sits on the Board of With Love Market & Cafe, SPC.
Kathleen has been invited to speak at venues including:
SBA
Milken Institute
Director’s Guild of America (DGA)
Association of Women’s Business Centers (AWBC)
America’s SBDC
Illinois SBDC-DuPage
New Economics for Women WBC (NEW)
Wyoming Women’s Business Center (WY WBC)
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO)
DC Department of Small & Local Business Development (DC DSLBD)
Small Business Majority
Zion’s Bank
Impact HUB
OmniWorks
General Assembly
Association of Idaho Cities (AIC)
Women’s Business Center at JEDI
Idaho Women’s Business Center
Idaho Women in Leadership
(I-WIL)
City of Los Angeles
City of Inglewood
SCORE
Operation Hope
Pepperdine University
UC Riverside
East Los Angeles College (ELAC)
Los Angeles Trade-Tech College (LATTC)
Gaia University
Educate CA Funder’s Forum
LA Business Source
Chicostart
The Local Crowd
Crowd Invest Summit
Crowdfunding Deep Impact UK
Global Crowdfunding Convention
For more information or to arrange for Kathleen to speak at your event, please contact us at:
start@crowdfundbetter.com or (208) 297-3447
Speaking Testimonials
“After attending Kathleen Minogue’s presentation on Crowdfunding as a business tool I was blown away. Kathleen speaks eloquently and passionately about a subject she clearly is an expert on. My company has helped to produce videos for different Kickstarter or IndieGoGo campaigns in the past, and considered myself reasonably knowledgeable about the subject of crowdfunding until I sat in Kathleen’s presentation for 10 minutes, then realized I didn’t know the half of it. We are already engaging Kathleen, Scott, and the Crowdfund Better team to work with us on different projects with our company and I couldn’t be more excited to see what we can build with their help! If you get the chance to attend a class or presentation, do it, better yet just skip straight to the call.” – Ryan Oswald, Producer & CEO – Northwest Motion Pictures
“Kathleen Minogue you have a unique ability to articulate the art and science of crowdfunding like no one else I have ever heard. You are truly a teacher with a gift to transmit the nuances and insights of crowdfunding!!” – Bill Huston, Founder & CEO – Crowd Max Publishing
“Kathleen, yours was the most important workshop I attended to make my crowdfunding better. Thank YOU!” – Matia Karrell, Producer/Director – FlyGirls TV Series
“Kathleen’s presentation at our 2016 Funders Forum in Culver City, CA was loved by all in attendance. The comments and reviews received on our post-event surveys all indicated that everyone left energized, informed and empowered – ready to build their individual giving programs through crowdfunding. Thanks Kathleen!” – Eric L. Moore, Founder & Executive Director – Educate California
“Thanks to your presentation, I was able to triple my goal of $800 to $2,650! I learned to pick up the phone or ask in person; not just through social media. I also associate a video and/or personal story on my Facebook every time I post; it really made a difference! Not only that, I convinced my audience to share my story or their experience as well with my link. I feel I have my Facebook audience on board, they are well aware of how important this campaign is to me and how it will create a future for Bresee youth. I am on a roll and setting the bar high!” – Fonda Whitehead, Development Director – Bresee Youth Center
“You’re like a walking TED talk!” – Mikery Hatfield, Executive Chef – Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown at USC
“Kathleen is an amazing presenter I can listen to her speak and teach all day.” – Jackie Jones, Founder – Senoj Beverages
“I invited Kathleen to speak at my MASTERMIND AGENCY GROUPS for Entrepreneurial Voice, LLC after learning of her expertise in CROWDFUNDING. The groups of women entrepreneurs were in different stages of business from getting ready to launch to having established businesses and not everyone believed the subject necessarily applied to them. However, Kathleen used her expertise to showcase how CROWDFUNDING and the principles behind it could benefit every business and shared new developments and insights into CROWDFUNDING that makes every business a candidate for developing their own crowdfunding campaign. Everyone can benefit from Kathleen and her expertise.”
–Jan McCarthy, Founder – Entrepreneurial Voice, Ladies Who Launch LA & OC, CRAVE LA
