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Meet Kaye Mitchell
 Kaye
Mitchell serves
the ICA Chief Legislative Liaison
Officer. She is the
President and CEO of MKM Enterprises, Inc., d.b.a., Certify
to Success. For the
past 12 years she has provided consulting to business owners on
actively
planning, organizing, networking and developing their companies.
Because of her
acquired knowledge of certification programs and other government
procurement
issues, she founded Certify to Success in 2003. Certify to Success
specializes
in helping small businesses navigate the confusion of what if any
certification
programs support their needs and how best to market their
certifications once
received. In addition, Certify to Success educates small businesses on
the
value and opportunity in operating a well-organized company, especially
when
they desire to contract their products/services to the government.
In addition to
her
current business, Kaye has been part owner of four other small
businesses over
the past 22 years. She started her first business back in the late 1980s
and experienced first hand the complex, nearly impossible task of
contracting
with the government. Then in 1995, Kaye began consulting small
businesses on
the best methods and tools to systemize, organize, and develop their
companies.
As President of NAWBO’s Pikes Peak Chapter from 1997-1999 she found
many of the
members asking for her assistance on ways to procure government
contracts. Kaye
continued to hear, both through her consulting and involvement with
various
professional organizations specific to small business owners, that one
of the
biggest mysteries for the majority of developing entrepreneurs was
still how to
procure government contracts. Since she already had a passion for
public
policy, she soon became actively involved in seeking solutions to the
contract
bundling issue.
Kaye already knew
the value of certification, but educating individuals on the importance
of
strategic alliances, teaming arrangements and/or joint ventures
increased her
knowledge of the requirements and nuances of the multitude of
certifications
available. She soon found that numerous people were referring small
business
owners to her for certification assistance, especially when seeking
entrance
into the Federal 8(a)
Business
Development Program or the Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)
certification.
Therefore, she founded Certify to Success to address issues pertaining
to
certification and procurement.
Kaye is
currently the Captain of Colorado’s
Instant Impact Team and participates in the Membership Council. In
addition,
over the past couple of years she has actively pursued better resources
throughout the State of Colorado
that will provide effective training to developing small businesses.
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