This intensive course is designed to challenge you as a foreign-born woman with a business idea you have not yet pursued.
You will not only work on your idea: you will also explore the internal barriers in mindset, identity, and self-belief that may be holding you back from acting on what you already know.
Purpose and Goals
This course is about helping you move from “maybe someday” to a clear decision.
During the program, you will:
- Look at your idea through a practical, business-focused lens
- Understand what it would really take to move forward
- Work through doubts, hesitation, and overthinking
- Build trust in your own ability to decide and act
By the end, you will not just have more information, you will have made a decision: yes, no, or not yet. And you will know why.
Content
Throughout the course, you will work step by step through your idea using a clear framework: Discern – Evaluate – Test – Commit – Calibrate.
What you will leave with:
- A clear view of your values, skills, and experience from a business perspective
- A simple, high-level business case for your idea
- A clear idea of your ideal customer, pricing, and business model
- A first small experiment to test your idea in practice
- A better understanding of what is holding you back, and what you need to grow into
- A clear decision: yes, no, or not yet, based on what you have learned
- A practical 60-day action plan for your next steps
Who is the course for?
This course is for you if:
- you are a foreign-born woman
- you are registered as living in Sweden
- you have been registered as a job seeker for at least 6 months
- or you want to build on your experiences or a shorter previous education.
But beyond that, this is for you, if you feel like you are sitting on something you haven’t fully explored yet.
Prerequisites
You don’t need a finished plan just an idea you are willing to explore.
You should:
- Be open to reflecting, sharing, and trying things out
- Be comfortable participating in English
- Have basic digital skills (you will complete a short AI-based exercise before the course starts)
Course Format
This is an intensive course that runs over 2 weeks and includes 10 sessions, from 13:00 to 15:15 (including breaks).
Each session is active and practical. You won’t just listen, you will:
- work on your own idea
- engage in exercises
- hear how others are thinking
- share your own reflections
There is also a short pre-course task using an AI tool to help you start thinking before the first session.
Course Leader
Shiro Ndune is a business advisor, author, and former international commercial lawyer with over 20 years of experience across the globe.
She has advised on complex commercial transactions, engaged in business development, built her own business, and now works with women who have a business idea and need the structure to decide what to do with it. She has a direct understanding of what it takes to build something as a foreign-born woman in a new country because she's done it herself.
Important Information
Please note that this course is not approved for unemployment insurance (A-kassa) or reporting to the Swedish Public Employment Service. It does not qualify for CSN funding or social welfare support
Kursledare
Shiro Ndune
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