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4/7/2025 6:02:02 PM Member News

Catapult Lakeland and Emily Rogers Consulting + Coaching Have Forged a Strategic Partnership

Catapult Lakeland, an organization established in 2014 to foster the growth of startups, and Emily Rogers Consulting + Coaching, a business that exists to help leaders and teams grow and realize their full potential, have forged strategic partnership aimed at helping entrepreneurs to accelerate their business growth through executive coaching.

Catapult’s Expert in Residence program is a team of specialized advisors available to meet with business founders to offer advice and guidance in a variety of business disciplines, including finance, marketing, operations - and now leadership. As part of this collaborative partnership, Emily Rogers will serve as an executive coach to entrepreneurs, providing unbiased insights, clarity, and guidance related to leadership challenges and opportunities.

Catapult president, Christin Strawbridge, expressed her excitement about the partnership by stating, “We are excited to collaborate with Emily Rogers Consulting + Coaching to offer a new level of leadership coaching to entrepreneurs that are scaling businesses. Emily’s extensive experience in coaching business leaders, coupled with her professional reputation and deep personal roots in Polk County, make her an ideal resource for our members. We look forward to seeing how this partnership accelerates the success of our local businesses.”

Emily Rogers, Founder & CEO of Emily Rogers Consulting + Coaching, further elaborated, “Lakeland is renowned for its business-friendly environment and its unwavering support for business startups. I am thrilled to assume the role of a leadership expert in residence for our city’s aspiring entrepreneurs through this collaborative effort with Catapult.”

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Catapult Lakeland is a 501(c)(3) with eight employees, over 250 members, and a budget over $1.5M. Over 50 businesses have fully launched from Catapult. Through the support of Lakeland’s financial institutions, Catapult’s launch grant program has awarded over $430,000 to entrepreneurs purchasing equipment to level up their businesses. Over the last decade, Catapult has continued to evolve its model to determine the best ways to provide support to founders and the Lakeland startup ecosystem.

For more than a decade, Emily Rogers Consulting + Coaching has been dedicated to helping leaders and teams grow and realize their full potential in purposeful and balanced ways through executive coaching, team coaching, and leadership development training.

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