Meghan Lynch, Sofia Aparicio, MJ Hyndman-Benander and Margaret Ann Gomez
US Model technique company and Salvadorean sustainable style CEOs align to bolster enterprise
— Meghan Lynch, Six-Level CEO
EAST LONGMEADOW, MA, USA, July 12, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Model technique company Six-Level was honored to host Sofía Aparicio, CEO & Founder of April from El Salvador, as half of the U.S. State Division alternate program known as the Skilled Fellows Program on Financial Empowerment.
Sofía Aparicio is a tenacious enterprise proprietor whose life experiences and spirit to function a job mannequin and group chief have pushed her to early profession accomplishments. Regardless of the challenges of being a teenage mom, she was decided to set an instance for her daughter. Sofía launched her first enterprise at age 19, promoting handmade pizzas at a gasoline station. With the income earned, she turned to e-commerce and offered undergarments on Fb. Within the first few days, she had over 100 orders. She quickly opened a retailer, April, the place she sells a spread of basic ladies’s attire. Her enterprise has repeatedly grown for the final 13 years.
“Early on, I used to be considering a lot smaller,” mentioned Sofía. “The important thing to having fun with your life within the midst of engaged on your online business is to have nice companions who provide help to to steer your tasks to higher locations; that’s what Six-Level Artistic offers for its shoppers.”
Parallel to Sofía’s journey at the moment, Meghan Lynch, Six-Level’s CEO, has been specializing in growing her model technique company’s impression, significantly on family-owned companies like Sofía’s which have a chance to reshape industries and instantly impression communities. “Whereas publicly run corporations have so much of assets, they’re on the mercy of shareholders. Household companies don’t have anybody to reply to apart from their very own values and imaginative and prescient. In the event that they don’t like how issues are accomplished of their trade, or they see potential locally the place they grew up, they’ve the ability to make fast and sweeping change,” defined Meghan. “Once I heard Sofía’s story, I knew we’d study so much from one another.”
In 2016, Sofía turned conscious of the poor work situations within the mills the place her merchandise have been made. She swiftly launched textile manufacturing and included a domestically made clothes line to her shops, growing moral labor requirements and native employment. She now runs the retail, the manufacturing, and in addition conducts 40% of her enterprise by way of e-commerce. On the retailer, she employs 9 younger ladies (18-23 years outdated) who’re financially liable for their households. Sofía has made unconventional investments of each money and time in constructing an organization tradition that fosters progress and alternative for her workers. For instance, she brings one worker every time she takes a visit to go to a provider, which is usually the primary time the younger ladies have left El Salvador. She needs to provide them alternatives to develop personally and professionally, not merely a paycheck.
Sofía’s temporary time spent with Six-Level was centered on exploring methods to proceed to develop her enterprise in an effort to impression and rent extra ladies in her area, in addition to improve the presence and celebration of Salvadorean tradition within the garments she produces and sells. Sofía hung out with the Six-Level crew of strategists and challenge managers, exploring methods to scale her model and improve the impression of expertise in her programs and processes at April. Six-Level additionally facilitated visits to different companies in Massachusetts, together with Scout Curated Wears, BRIGADE, and Stand Out Truck, to assist Sofía acquire further publicity and perception into methods that might assist her scale her operations.
“As an entrepreneur, ardour and curiosity are two of probably the most important traits you may have, and Sofía embodies each,” mentioned Six-Level CEO Meghan Lynch. “Our mission at Six-Level is to blaze new trails in enterprise, and supporting Sofía and April on this fellowship alternate is totally aligned with that mission. Sofía’s imaginative and prescient to convey extra sustainability to the style trade, to create extra alternative in rural communities in El Salvador, and make the April model a celebration of Salvadorean tradition… it’s a trailblazing imaginative and prescient, and it’s energizing and rewarding to assist her push it ahead.”
As half of the alternate program, Meghan will go to El Salvador in November to assist Sofía’s progress plan and study extra in regards to the Salvadorean enterprise panorama. The 2 entrepreneurs are assured that these visits would be the begin of a long-lasting partnership and mutual assist.
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The Skilled Fellows Program on Financial Empowerment is a worldwide alternate designed to advertise mutual understanding, improve management {and professional} expertise, in addition to construct lasting, sustainable partnerships between mid-level rising leaders from international nations and america. Be taught extra at https://exchanges.state.gov/
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