NOVEMBER 6, 2026 • NEW YORK CITY
BAUCE HAUS 2026
A PREMIER FOUNDERS EXPERIENCE FOR SELF-MADE WOMEN
BAUCE HAUS is built for Black women entrepreneurs who are ready to elevate to the next level in their business. If you've already hit six figures, this is where you learn what it actually takes to hit seven. Real strategy. Real tools. Real founders who've done it before you. This experience is for the self-made women who are ready to work and walk out with the connections, plan, and the next move to back it up.
A NEW EXPERIENCE AWAITS
BAUCE HAUS IS BACK!
BAUCE Magazine's most coveted gathering for Black women entrepreneurs returns for National Entrepreneurship Month — and this time, the goal is to help ambitious founders chart the path to their next level. Opening with an intimate Founders IOntensive led by experienced entrepreneurs, BAUCE HAUS intentionally brings six-figure founders together in a room built to turn strangers into your next investors, clients, and collaborators.
WHY THIS ROOM EXISTS
Black Women Are Building The Future Of Business. Period.
50%
Growth in businesses owned by Black women from 2014–2019 — the highest rate of any female demographic.
2.7M
Black women are the fastest-growing demographic of entrepreneurs in the U.S., with nearly 2.7 million businesses nationwide.
<0.5%
Share of all venture capital funding that goes to Black women founders — despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America.
Six figures is often where growth stalls. It doesn't stem from a lack of hustle, but rather the lack of knowledge around the tools, systems, and connections that can help founders scale. BAUCE HAUS puts you shoulder-to-shoulder with founders who've already made the jump to seven figures, so you can leave with the actual playbook instead of another motivational quote. This is where the connections that move your business forward — investors, clients, collaborators — are made.
Sources: McKinsey, Crunchbase, BCG, Project Diane
WHO'S IN THE ROOM
2026 BAUCE HAUS SPEAKERS
Lisa Price
Founder, Carol's DaughterLisa Price is the Founder and President of Carol's Daughter, the beauty empire she built from her Brooklyn kitchen in 1993 with just $100 and a passion for scent alchemy. What began as fragrances and creams sold at flea markets and out of her living room — Almond Cookie, Hair Milk, and Black Vanilla Hair Smoothie among them — grew into a cult-favorite brand embraced by celebrities like Jada Pinkett-Smith, Erykah Badu, and Halle Berry, and chronicled in her memoir, Success Never Smelled So Sweet.
More than three decades later, Price continues to lead the brand she built, now as President of Carol's Daughter's new chapter as an independent beauty company, alongside 2026's launch of Lisa's Kitchen, a scalp and edge care collection. She was appointed to the National Women's Business Council under the Obama administration, and her accolades include the Sheen Magazine Beauty Industry Entrepreneur of the Year (2025) and the National Black MBA Association's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2021, she partnered with the Mama Glow Foundation to launch Love Delivered, an initiative addressing the Black Maternal Health Crisis.
Lauren Maillian
Serial EntrepreneurLauren Maillian is a globally recognized entrepreneur, investor, and brand strategist who transforms consumer-facing businesses into industry leaders. As Founder and CEO of LMB Group, she advises startups, global corporations, and private equity-backed companies on brand growth, go-to-market strategy, and revenue innovation. She’s raised over $20M for social impact, built a $4B+ investment portfolio, and helped scale brands across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and media. Lauren previously served as CEO of digitalundivided and President of Hero Media. She’s the creator of The New C-Suite with Cosmopolitan and has advised companies including JPMorgan Chase, Meta, Nasdaq, and Estée Lauder. A global speaker and thought leader, she’s appeared at Cannes Lions, AdWeek, and WSJ Women in Series.
Tricia Lee
Real Estate InvestorStay tuned! Bio is forthcoming.
Shaina Rainford
Founder & CEO, Bask & Lather Co.Shaina Rainford is the Founder and CEO of Bask & Lather Co., a nine-figure, bootstrapped, Black-owned textured haircare brand she built from her own kitchen into a global business — with no outside investors. A board-certified nurse practitioner, Shaina merges clinical expertise with cultural tradition, driving 1,400% growth from 2024 to 2026 and the #1-ranked Black-owned haircare brand on Amazon. Her accolades include the 2025 and 2026 Inc. 5000 lists, Inc. Magazine's 2026 Female Founders 500, BeautyMatter's FUTURE50, a Cosmopolitan Holy Grail Beauty Award, and the Culture Shifter Award at the inaugural Bronner Bros. Beauty Icon Awards.
Uchenna Ngwudo
Co-Founder, Cee Cee's Closet NYCUchenna Ngwudo is Co-Founder of Cee Cee's Closet NYC and the architect of its e-commerce engine. A Brooklyn native with Nigerian roots, she lives by one rule: make products that make life feel beautiful. If you've tried a CCC body butter, fallen for one of its scents or tied on a CCC headwrap, it started with her. She builds the systems that let a founder-led brand scale — Shopify conversion, subscriptions, creator-led ads, AI-powered workflows and production from Brooklyn to Lagos — work that took CCC to a six-figure raise and a Black Ambition Prize win. Now she helps product-based founders build that same engine, so the business can grow without them in every room.
Chioma Ngwudo
Co-Founder, Cee Cee's Closet NYCChioma Ngwudo is Co-Founder and CEO of Cee Cee's Closet NYC, the Brooklyn beauty brand she built with her sister, Uchenna, into a business with more than $10 million in sales. A live commerce strategist and business mentor, she knows how to turn a founder's story into a direct-to-consumer engine — from video that sells to live shows that convert. At BAUCE HAUS, she'll share what has actually driven CCC's growth: winning customers, keeping them, and building a business that lasts.
Fatou Barry
Founder, PR Girl ManifestoStay tuned! Bio is forthcoming.
Lisette Scott
Founder, Jam + RicoStay tuned! Bio is forthcoming.
Nastrah Carr
Founder, Melaninated Minds CoalitionStay tuned! Bio is forthcoming.
Kadeisha Placide
Founder, Women In Power CollectiveKadeisha Placide is a beauty and wellness entrepreneur, speaker, and community builder dedicated to empowering women through holistic wellness, entrepreneurship, and meaningful connection. She is the Founder of Women In Power Collective, a wellness and professional development community creating spaces for women to prioritize their well-being, expand their networks, and grow personally and professionally.
Kadeisha is also the Co-Owner of Classic Beauty Studio, a Brooklyn-based clean beauty and wellness destination she has helped lead since 2018. With a background in psychology and cosmetology, her work bridges beauty, mental wellness, business, and community impact. In 2024, she was recognized with a New York City Council Small Business Award for her contributions to entrepreneurship, beauty, wellness, and community empowerment.
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NEED EXTRA HELP? WE GOT YOU!
BAUCE HAUS Experts
These business and brand strategists are joining BAUCE HAUS to share their expertise and provide actionable next steps and advice to help founders achieve their goals. VIP Pass holders will receive strategy sessions with one of the experts highlighted below.
Ayanna Dutton-Diaz
Brand StrategistAyanna Dutton-Diaz is a brand strategist, speaker, and Founder of AD Consulting, a brand strategy consultancy for founders and multi-hyphenate leaders ready to stop limiting themselves to one identity and build a brand that finally reflects who they actually are.
She spent 15+ years inside global brands including LinkedIn, Meta, Dentsu, Coach, Coty, and Cadillac building brand strategy and frameworks from the ground up. Over time, she recognized that the work she was doing for global brands was work she had already been doing for herself: finding the thread, building the narrative, making the story land. She figured that out early because she had to. And once she did, she couldn't unsee the gap: brilliant people doing incredible work who had never been taught to connect their own dots.
Her stages include Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women x Brooklyn Public Library LevelUP, LinkedIn x Cannes Lions, The One Club for Creativity, Luminary, and The Female Quotient. She is the co-founder of Non-Corporate Girls™, a podcast and lifestyle media platform, and writes on brand, leadership, and identity through The Aya Brand on Substack.
Whether through keynotes, workshops, or panel moderation, her work is rooted in one belief: when your story is clear, everything else moves differently.
An Afro-Panamanian woman based in New Jersey, Ayanna is also a wife and a mother, and someone who believes the most powerful professional asset is knowing who you are and refusing to apologize for it.
Joy Osahan
Strategy CoachJoy Osahon is a Nigerian-American Empowerment Speaker, Strategy Coach, and Author. She is the founder of Speak With Joy, an online platform dedicated to empowering women and young adults to thrive in faith, purpose, confidence, and healthy relationships. As the author of This Is Not Your Typical “Finding Your Purpose” Book and Heartbreak Hotel: It’s Time To Check Out, Joy is a sought-after speaker known for delivering impactful talks and workshops on purpose discovery, confidence building, identity, healing, professional development self-advocacy, and personal growth. She has inspired audiences across the country through keynotes, panels, and interactive experiences that blend strategy, storytelling, and faith-based insight. Outside of her purpose-driven work, Joy serves as a Director at a nonprofit organization, where she leads initiatives centered on alumni support, workforce readiness, business engagement and community impact.
Tenyse Williams
Strategic Partnerships AdvisorTenyse Williams is an Opportunity Architect and strategic partnerships advisor who helps founder-led brands and organizations turn visibility into revenue, partnerships, and long-term growth. As Founder and CEO of Verified Consulting, she has led campaigns and collaborations for organizations including Samsung, TIME, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, generating more than $32 million in publicity value. Her insights on publicity and strategic partnerships have been featured in Forbes, TIME, and Fortune. She is also the founder of Raise Local, an AI matchmaking platform that connects local businesses with nonprofits and corporations to create opportunities that strengthen local economies. Tenyse previously served as an Adjunct Instructor, specialist teaching digital marketing, at Columbia University, George Washington University, and the University of Central Florida.
Adebukola Ajao
Marketing ConsultantAdebukola Ajao is a marketing agency founder, marketing professor and small business advocate dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow with intention and impact. As the creator of For All Things Digital, she has built a free small business resource platform that has helped founders secure over $2M in grant funding by creating access to capital. Through her signature philosophy, Brand Before Bucks™️, she teaches that if you’re in business, marketing is your business. Her work turns CEOs into CMOs, empowering leaders at every level to think more strategically about brand, storytelling, and visibility. Whether in the classroom or through her agency, she is committed to equipping founders with the tools they need to fund, build, and sustain successful businesses.
THE SCHEDULE
BAUCE HAUS 2026
Four working sessions, built for founders who are past the basics.
Opening Panel
1:00 PM | Founders running 7+ figure businesses share their growth strategies and stories of success.
FOUNDER STORY → GROWTH STRATEGY → PROOF IT WORKS
BAUCE Business Review
2:00 PM | Founders businesses reviewed live by a panel of experts, so attendees learn how to scale and improve their own enterprises in similar industries.
YOUR BUSINESS → EXPERT EYES → NEXT MOVE
Systems & Scaling Workshops
3:00 PM | Expert-led sessions on the systems and tools that can help you achieve 7+ figures in business.
TOOLS → SYSTEMS → SEVEN FIGURES
Founders Exchange
4:00 PM | Audience-led conversation where founders use peer connection to resolve real, personal business problems with successful black female founders as their guide.
YOUR PROBLEM → PEER WISDOM → RESOLUTION
Networking Party
6:00 PM | A closing cocktail reception with curated networking for event attendees and invited NYC entrepreneurs, built to foster real mentorship and business opportunities. Includes a closing fireside chat with a Black woman founder who has surpassed 7-figures in business.
CONNECT → GROW → ELEVATE
A TRANSFORMATIVE DAY
At BAUCE HAUS You Will Discover:
The room where six-figure founders learn how to become seven-figure founders.
Real founders at every stage of scaling ready to foster new connections.
Founders ready for a meaningful shift in how they build, not just what they build.
LET'S GO DOWN MEMORY LANE
BAUCE HAUS IN RECENT YEARS
THE ORIGINATORS
PAST BAUCE HAUS SPEAKERS
Imani Ellis
Bianca Jeanty
Chinyere Adogu
Melissa Ingram
Kara Stevens
Marie Jean-Baptiste
Nana Ayemang
Sade Muhammad
Brianna B
Ayana Iman
Michelle Dalzon
Ashley Akunna
Raval Davis
Angel Lenise
Allie Joy-Tashay
Courtney Danielle
Ayzia James
Kimberly Brown
SAVE YOUR SPOT
Choose How You Want To Enter The Room
Three ways to experience BAUCE HAUS: pick the one that fits your needs. Need a payment plan? We got you! Klarna and Affirm are now offered as payment options at checkout.
General
$199
- ✓ Access To The Founders Intensive (12 - 5 PM)
- ✓ Access To Evening Networking Party (6 - 9 PM) — Includes Drinks, Food, And Curated Networking
- ✓ Attendee Gift Bag
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VIP
$299
- ✓ Everything In General, Plus:
- ✓ 30-minute Strategy Call With A BAUCE HAUS Expert To Disucss Your Business
- ✓ Post-Event Matchmaking And Intros
- ✓ Access To Recorded Content From Founders Intensive Sessions For 1 Year
Party Pass
$89
- ✓ Access To Evening Networking Party Only (6 - 9 PM) — Includes Drinks and Food
- ✓ Curated Networking At The Event
TESTIMONIALS
What founders have to say
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Better than I could have imagined. Can't wait for the next one!
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Exhilarating to be in a room of women who look like me and think like me.
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I met a founder at BAUCE HAUS who referred me to 3 clients.
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I met people I never would have had access to outside this room — and now we're friends. I have so many new potential clients.
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I was nervous to walk in. I left with four real business partnerships.
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The experience was intentional in every sense of the word. This is one of the best curated spaces of relatable and warm founders in NYC.
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Perfect. Inclusive in every sense. Seriously — it was a vibe.
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I met the most amazing founder at BAUCE HAUS. We've supported each other ever since, and started our own revenue challenge together.
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Frequently Asked Questions
BAUCE HAUS is built for Black women entrepreneurs already running six-figure businesses who are ready to make the jump to seven. Whether you're scaling a product, a service, a brand, or a portfolio, the room is built for founders past the idea stage and serious about their next level. If you have not hit six figures yet, we suggest joining us for our networking party which is open to founders of all levels.
If your goal is to replace your corporate job with your side hustle — and that side hustle has already hit six figures — you're invited to register for BAUCE HAUS.
Yes — the founders intensive is intentionally intimate, designed to foster real relationships in a warm, low-pressure space. We also curate the evening networking party so that everyone leaves with at least one or two new contacts in their phone.
BAUCE HAUS is a single day built around four learning sessions on scaling and wealth building and concludes with a networking event. All of our events are designed to help six-figure founders gets unstuck. Expect sessions on how to:
- Learn the growth strategies and stories behind founders already running 7+ figure businesses.
- Get real-time feedback on your own business from a panel of experts.
- Build the systems and tools that actually lead to 7+ figures.
- Work through your specific business roadblocks alongside founders who've solved similar problems.
- Turn the room into real relationships at the closing networking celebration.
By attending our event, our hopes is that you will gain real insights and action steps from founders who've been there, and leave with the motivation and tools to apply those tactics to your own growth.
We ask every applicant for their approximate annual revenue as part of the registration form. Our goal is not to cater to a specific number, but rather to ensure everyone in the room is operating at a similar stage, so the conversation goes deeper faster. If you have not hit six figures yet but still feel that attending the founders intensive would be valuable to you, we invite you to register and note this in your registration.
For most self-employed founders in the US, yes — the cost of your BAUCE HAUS ticket, along with related travel expenses like flights or lodging, typically qualifies as a deductible business expense. The IRS allows deductions for education that helps you maintain or improve the skills needed in your trade or business, which is exactly what BAUCE HAUS is built to deliver. You can generally file it under education expense, professional training, or professional development. As always, confirm with your own tax preparer to make sure it applies to your specific situation — but for most founders, it will.
Yes! When you click "Buy Ticket" on this page, look for Klarna or Affirm as a payment option to split your ticket into smaller payments over time. Once you select it at checkout and you'll be walked through the available plans for your order amount.
General ($199) includes the founders intensive and the evening networking party, plus an attendee gift bag. VIP ($299) includes everything in General, plus a 30-minute strategy call with a BAUCE HAUS expert, post-event matchmaking and intros, and a year of access to recorded intensive sessions. Party Pass ($99) is networking-party-only access, for founders who want the room without the full-day intensive.
Yes — grab a Party Pass ($99) for evening-only access to the networking celebration. Make sure to invite a friend!
The Founders Intensive for BAUCE HAUS takes place at The Yard in Herald Square, 106 W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001. The evening networking party will take place at Penny's, located at 237 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001.
We don't offer hotel accommodations as part of the BAUCE HAUS experience, but if you're traveling in from out of town, we recommend these nearby hotels: U Hotel, Hyatt Herald Square New York, the Distrikt Hotel and the Archer Hotel.
Yes. If you need ADA accommodations, please reach out to us via email at info@baucemag.com so we can assist.
During the Founders Intensive we will a grazing table available with local bites and treats. Beverages will also be available to keep you hydrated during the learning sessions. The evening cocktail celebration will have stationed food, non-alcholic drinks, and cocktails available for consumption.
We are currently not offering livestreams for this year's experience. VIP Pass holders will receive 1 year access after the event.
Tickets are non-refundable. If your plans change, your ticket may be transferred to another eligible founder — just notify our team via email at info@baucemag.com.
You can reach out to our team directly at info@baucemag.com.