About Us – The Community Entrepreneur®
Life can serve you with curve balls. When it does adapt, stay resilient, and use the unexpected challenges as opportunities to grow and learn
About The Community Entrepreneur
Since 2010, we at The Community Entrepreneur have been helping entrepreneurially minded not-for-profit organisations and the people in them to grow, get to where they want to be and make an impact in their communities. Organisations we have assisted include artists, sports clubs, CFA, charities, disability, youth, multicultural, homeless, indigenous, neighbourhood houses, cemeteries, overseas aid and aged care to name a few. We have also extended our services to businesses.
Through encouraging and supporting entrepreneurial thinking we:
- Help you to redefine your community
- Stimulate your creative thinking so you can step outside your everyday space to work on the big picture
- Work with the whole organisation to remove blockages and to create sustainable change.
- Support big hairy audacious plans to get off the ground, or help steady the ship after recent momentous change
OUR VISION/MISSION
10,000 community entrepreneurs in 75 countries!
Empowered organisations, individuals, and communities who step up and turn their ideas into reality.
Our Mission is to work with entrepreneurially focused community innovators to change their world, community by community.
Think outside the norm. Create the environment that supports new ideas and innovation. Creative thinkers are always ahead of the pack.
Start at the end and work backwards.
Harness the wisdom, skills and energy of others to share your common outcome.
Support entrepreneurial thinking with solid foundations in the community.
Be transparent, clear and engage all who matter. Do no harm.
About Pat Grosse
Founder of The Community Entrepreneur®
For ten years, Pat organised conferences, workshops and study visits for UK and international professionals interested in the European Union. This was the time when ‘social inclusion’ became a new buzz word; the Information Super Highway was paving the way for the technology we take for granted today; and countries were scrambling for membership. Pat learned strategy at the highest levels and developed an entrepreneurial streak that she now uses to motivate not-for-profits to step outside of their everyday spaces and to think and plan to take their businesses to the next level.
Pat worked for a leading provider of professional development programs in the UK for ten years before taking up a role with a funding body in Australia where she also held a white hat auditor role, monitoring not-for-profits and seeking out opportunities to guide them through change. In 2010, she stepped out of the role to use her skills to mentor and support organisations to adapt and grow. Since then she has brought in millions of dollars for clients, many of whom have gone on to win awards and get recognition for their programs.
Because she works with businesses as well as NFPs, Pat can translate working cultures and facilitate public/private partnership ventures. Pat’s background in marketing and grants also contributes to helping organisations pitch their proposals and attract new clients.
Pat is supported by a dedicated team with expertise in strategic marketing, community research and environmental sustainability.
Pat reads the patterns beneath the surface, intuitively locating the real problem or the hidden opportunity that is shaping an organisation’s future. Clients seek her guidance when they need clarity, bold direction, or an honest assessment of what is actually holding them back.
Patricia blends insight, foresight and practical strategy. She identifies trends before they land, translates intuition into action, and pinpoints leverage that transforms outcomes. Leaders trust her because she sees what is emerging and reveals what must be addressed now to stay ahead.
If you want a guide who can cut through noise, illuminate the path forward and position you for what is coming next, Patricia is the one you call
Book an Exploratory Call https://bit.ly/tcebooking Or call Pat on 0407 450 818
“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
Peter F Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
The Community Entrepreneur
We help your vision come to life,
Through all the planning, stress and strife.
From grant support to strategy,
We’re here to build your legacy.
You’ve got ideas, bold and bright,
We shape them up and guide them right.
With mentoring that’s clear and wise,
We help your enterprise to rise.
Community is at our core,
We open doors and so much more.
With every step, we walk with you—
To make your mission strong and true.
So if you’ve got a dream to grow,
We’re the team you need to know.
We turn ideas into success,
With heart, with care, and nothing less.