WHAT WE DO

Leveraging Horizons provides consulting and coaching services to business owners seeking to understand, acquire, and leverage diverse business certifications. We educate business owners on certification types, eligibility requirements, and application processes to determine the best certification fit. In addition, we provide eligibility analysis, application preparation, and post-certification coaching for local/municipal, state, federal, and national certifications.

Diverse Business Certifications: DBE, MBE, WBE, VBE, VOSB, SDVOSB, WOSB, DOBE, LGTBE 

certify. connect. grow.

“Business certifications come with various perks and resources that can help your company stand out among competitors and scale your business faster.”

-CO— by U.S. Chamber of Commerce

JACINTA WITHERSPOON


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Founder and Managing Principal,

LEVERAGING HORIZONS

Jacinta Witherspoon is the Founder and Managing Principal of Leveraging Horizons Consulting, LLC dba Leveraging Horizons. She brings over 15 years of progressive experience and demonstrated success in relationship management; strategic leadership; project management; business development; program, policy, and process development, implementation, and administration; building and managing technology infrastructure; event management and logistics; recruitment/talent acquisition; and supplier diversity through an equitable and inclusive lens.

Prior to joining the Corporate Social Impact team as a Global Diversity & Inclusion Business Partner at Intel Corporation, Jacinta spent four (4) years as the Regional Director of the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC). In her role at the WBDC, Jacinta was responsible for growing the Missouri and Southern Illinois markets; strengthening and building new strategic relationships; educating the small business ecosystem and business owners on the process and benefits of 3rd party certification; helping Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) leverage their certification; and developing capacity-building programming. As a people and resource connector, Jacinta shares the importance of learning, transferring knowledge, and resources that support and bridge gaps for individuals and networks.

An alum of FOCUS St. Louis’ Leadership St. Louis (LSL) program Class 37 (2013-2014), St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative’s Fellow Class Cohort 9 (2014-2015), and FOCUS St. Louis’ Inaugural Class of Impact Fellows (2016), Jacinta is no stranger to the work needed to create a more representative workplace. She’s also lent support and experience to Grace Hill Women’s Business Center, Southern Illinois SBDC, Small Business Week of Eastern MO Planning Committee, the BALSA Foundation, and the WBDC Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Taskforce. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. 

Jacinta holds an M.A. in Management and Leadership from Webster University and a B.S. in Business Administration - Finance from the University of Akron.