2025

Create & Elevate

Create & Elevate is a hands-on branding intensive. Entrepreneurs arrive with a clear brief. Designers arrive ready to build. Over one weekend, teams produce usable brand assets and a plan to put them to work.

Create & Elevate is for Native entrepreneurs ready to improve marketing and sales for their business.

A two-day design sprint pairing Native entrepreneurs with professional Native designers to level up brand identity and sales tools.

How It Works

1. Prepare

  • Designers review briefs and meet their paired entrepreneur at the virtual kickoff.

2. Sprint

  • Workshops for entrepreneurs on marketing, brand strategy, and sales.

  • On-site design production with structured review checkpoints.

  • Affinity sessions. Multiple workshops run at the same time. Choose what fits your business.

3. Reveal & Handoff

  • Final presentations on Sunday at 11 AM.
    • Change Labs delivers final files in usable formats after the event.
    • Follow-up surveys to track impact.

Marketing isn’t just about looking good.

Here’s something important to keep in mind: marketing isn’t just about looking good. It’s about selling more and earning more. Every flyer, social post, logo, or brand message you create is a tool to attract customers, increase sales, and strengthen your business cash flow. And that cash flow is exactly what helps you stay on top of your loan repayments. 

So think of Create & Elevate as an investment in your repayment strategy:

  • More visibility → more sales.

  • Better marketing → more profit.

  • Stronger sales → steady loan repayment.

Entrepreneurs

Create & Elevate connects Native entrepreneurs with Native designers to develop brand and marketing materials in a focused 40-hour sprint. Your role is to prepare your business information ahead of time, participate fully in both the virtual kickoff and in-person event, and complete the process with usable brand assets.

Key Activities

Full Agenda

Meet Your Designers

Planned C&E Design Review Schedule

  • FRIDAY, SEPT 26

    5:30PM Designer may present conceptual work that reflect the agreed upon scope of work for entrepreneur input. 

  • SATURDAY, SEPT 27

    12:00PM Designer may present 2 to 3 refined concepts that reflect the agreed upon scope of work.

  • SATURDAY, SEPT 27

    6:00PM To refine final design direction.

  • SUNDAY, SEPT 28

    9:00AM To prepare your 8-minute presentation of your final deliverable(s) to all participants.

Access 100+ workshops and seminars led by Native entrepreneurs on business topics ranging from storytelling to filing taxes.