Ursula Sanson

Ursula Sanson is a Business Advisor with the Washington SBDC located in Spokane. She is passionate about serving others, and with Ursula, you can expect to find empathic, friendly, and helpful advising sessions.

Ursula enjoys sharing with business owners all her knowledge and best practices through her personal “one-page business strategy”. She loves hearing their stories, building trust, and helping them access information, resources, learning programs, markets, and capital to Start, Run, Grow, and Succeed in their businesses.

She has spent the last two years understanding how Diversity and Inclusion become a positive impact on organizations and communities.

Ursula has over 15 years of experience in consumer banking, best known for her skills in using customer-centered innovative processes for market development. She ran a coffee shop chain focused on marketing and business strategy, innovation, and financials, leading to growth from 11 to 21 stores in 3 years.

Her cultural and professional diversity comes from working with Citibank on projects for Central America and from the Brand development of the coffee shop chain doing business with South and North America.

She speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. Ursula can help you with Business and Marketing Strategy, Business Plans, Financial forecasting, and Retail.

Ursula holds an MBA from Thomas More University and a BS in Economics from the Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil. She is a Certified Business Mentor.

She discovered much joy through outdoor activities and loves spending time with family, dancing, and having great conversations.