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There are many great reasons for entrepreneurs like you to belong to the Small Business Association of Michigan. Michelle Klassen is the owner of LkM Solutions, a firm that focuses on energy resilience, infrastructure and resource access, and when she became part of the association’s Leadership Council, the experience was more than she expected. “I was really surprised. To me, in every good approach you gotta have a platform and you gotta have a microphone. And I think that the Leadership Council is a really healthy platform for diagnosing issues that small businesses would need support with and actually giving real solid tools to those small businesses to be able to help them along the way. So that was an honest surprise for me and I’m very happy to be a part of the Leadership Council.” Michelle says that she wasn’t expecting that the Leadership Council would consist of a group of people who are actually doing the things they are talking about. “Often we can stuck in having conferences and talking about all the things that we want to do. But then real impact and accountability and partnerships to scale that impact is not identifiable, or easily identifiable. But it really was easily identifiable with the Leadership Council. And the reason that I was interested in SBAM and the Leadership Council is because so much of my work has been international over the years that understanding the local dynamic, the statewide dynamic, the politics and the policies that are being put into place, and how they affect us as small businesses. And for us, specifically, we’ve been so externally facing, how can we bring some of those lessons learned, best practices back into our community and then take what you guys see and bring that into our work in D.C. to really push forward some of the pursuits that small business want to see happen here.” Leverage the value of your involvement with the Small Business Association of Michigan. Learn more by calling today at 800-362-5461.