Twenty-three years of building entrepreneurs, worldwide.

International Strategic Management (ISM) is a leading U.S. advisory, capacity-building, and technical assistance firm working across the entrepreneurship and economic development arena. For twenty-three years, we've delivered customized training, mentorship, and program design for entrepreneurs and the organizations that support them, in 100+ countries and 500 cities across six continents.

ISM is known for its human-centered approach. We began small, as volunteers offering business training to minority and women entrepreneurs in our communities. After the H1N1 pandemic and the 2008 economic crash, we added consulting to larger entrepreneur support organizations. Since then we've grown to serve governments, foundations, universities, incubators, and accelerators worldwide, with a continued focus on underrepresented, underserved, and under-resourced communities.

Our expertise spans economic development, education, training, youth development, strategic partnership development, and workforce development. We work equally well with a corporation running an internal accelerator, a university launching an entrepreneurship program, a foundation deploying capital, and a government agency building policy that clears runway for its founders.