Jasmine Simms
Director of Business Advisor Strategy and Curriculum Optimization for Goldman Sachs Bib Program @JumpStart Inc.
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Business Advisor Strategy and Curriculum Optimization for Goldman Sachs Bib Program @JumpStart Inc.
Cleveland, OH, US
JumpStart OMBW: Black in Business (National Program)Consulting EngagementServe as the national strategy and execution lead for Business Advisor operations and curriculum optimization for JumpStart’s OMBW: Black in Business program, delivered in partnership with Goldman Sachs and NYU Stern.Provide project management leadership and strategic oversight for a distributed, national team of 30 Business Advisors, supporting the program success of 300+ entrepreneurs per cohort through structured curriculum engagement, advisor alignment, and accountability systems.Key ResponsibilitiesLead national strategy for Business Advisor engagement, onboarding, orientation, Growth Group alignment, and graduation participation.Manage program workflows and deliverables across cohorts, ensuring consistency, clarity, and execution at scale.Serve as curriculum advisory lead, attending and reviewing curriculum sessions and faculty office hours, and hosting office hours for Business Advisors.Provide curriculum feedback, insights, and optimization recommendations to JumpStart, Goldman Sachs, and NYU Stern.Develop tools, templates, and reinforcement resources to increase curriculum comprehension and real-world application.Analyze weekly scholar data to identify business wins, milestones, and impact indicators to support graduation planning and reporting.Collaborate weekly with JumpStart leadership and academic partners to ensure program milestones and grant expectations are met.ImpactCoordinated a national advisor network supporting 300+ scholars per cohort.Improved curriculum engagement and advisor consistency through standardized workflows and proactive planning.Reduced operational risk by shifting program delivery from reactive troubleshooting to repeatable systems.Strengthened cross-partner collaboration across JumpStart, Goldman Sachs, and NYU Stern.
EDUCATION
Anne Arundel Community College
Certificate, Therapeutic Massage
Anne Arundel Community College
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Hospitality Management
Towson University
Business Administration and Management, General
Anne Arundel Community College
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Business Management
ABOUT JASMINE SIMMS
Jasmine Simms is an energetic, confident, and personable entrepreneur, entrepreneurship educator and small business consultant; the type of person on whom your faculty, mentor networks, and serviced market will come to rely. She has a wide breadth of experience as an entrepreneur, instructor, program & curriculum developer, and business advisor to entrepreneurs across many industries. As a raised Baltimorean, she co-founded National Association of Mom Entrepreneurs (NAME formerly Moms As Entrepreneurs ) a non-profit which launched in the Penn-North community, whose mission is to remove the stigma that Black moms are unwilling to risk or assume the pressures of being a mom and an entrepreneur, by challenging the inequities placed upon them through education and access to funding. Through her work with NAME, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan State University, many began as aspiring entrepreneurs or sole proprietors and have been able scale to create jobs, generate revenue and leave their full-time careers to support their livelihoods through full-time entrepreneurship. In 2021, a proposal on behalf of NAME was selected to present at the Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship Center Conference where she addressed the inequities by identifying the effects that barriers such as structural racism, underserved, and redlined communities had on the success of Black-owned businesses and the solutions that could lead Black woman led household to generational wealth and delivering the blueprint of how other entrepreneurship centers can scale our models to other cities. After Simms’ first year in business, she has been awarded the title of Best Nail Salon and Best Nail Care consecutively by the Best of Baltimore by Baltimore Magazine, Best Manicure by CBS Baltimore, Best Nail Salon by The Baltimore Sun for 2018 and featured in Style Magazine, Morning Joe on MSNBC, HuffPost, WBAL Radio, NPR, Baltimore Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, The b Daily Paper, my24 Bmore Lifestyle, Technically, the Baltimore Times, and Fox News Baltimore and prides itself on maintaining 4.8/5 on Yelp, Google, and Facebook in positive customer experiences.
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