A 5-week cohort to clarify, activate, and move your work forward.
Hosted by Nicole Franco with guest facilitators, Ignite is a focused cohort module for people carrying a vision, project, offer, business, creative practice, or next chapter that is ready to move.
The cohorts are the modules. Each 5-week Ignite cohort focuses on a specific layer of the work so the experience can grow over time without becoming overwhelming.
For the ones building something real.
Ignite is designed for vision-led people across disciplines who want structure, support, and connection around the work they're bringing into the world.
- Creators
- Founders
- Artists
- Facilitators
- Healers
- Educators
- Consultants
- Culture-makers
- Community builders
- Vision-led people with a project, offer, or next chapter
The shifts you can expect.
Outcomes over methods. Here's what participants can move toward inside a cohort.
Clarify the vision
Find the strongest, truest direction inside the work you're already carrying.
Shape or strengthen the offer
Move from scattered ideas to a clear, resonant offering people can say yes to.
Build the digital home
A site, a page, a portfolio — a home online that reflects what you actually do.
Use technology and AI creatively
Practical, human-centered use of new tools without losing your voice or center.
Prepare to launch or relaunch
Structure, sequencing, and support around the moment you bring it into the world.
Build visibility and momentum
Audience, partnerships, positioning, and reach — with people beside you.
Learn to ask for and receive support
Move from lone effort into a rhythm of real feedback, referrals, and reciprocity.
Move from isolated to connected
A cohort of peers who see the work, hold you accountable, and celebrate the wins.
Five weeks. One focused layer.
Each cohort is organized around a single theme, so the work stays focused and repeatable. Future cohorts run as different modules.
- Clarity
- Identity
- Offer
- Story
- Systems
- Visibility
- Community
- Activation
Group energy. Focused depth.
Ignite pairs the momentum of a cohort with a clear module theme — so you're never a face in a crowd, and never building alone.
A note on investment
Investment and payment options will be shared with you before enrollment. No payment is collected with this application.
- A 5-week guided cohort
- Nicole as host, systems architect, and creative guide
- Guest facilitators
- A focused module or theme
- Live sessions
- Practical prompts and tools
- Creative direction
- Systems thinking
- Peer connection
- Integration and next steps
- An invitation into the larger field as it grows
More than two decades of seeing what's possible.
My work spans hospitality, music, media, experiential marketing, technology, wellness, events, community, and mission-driven organizations — more than twenty years of building, launching, and connecting across sectors.
What I bring to Ignite is pattern recognition, relational intelligence, creative direction, systems thinking, and a wide cross-sector network. I see what's possible in your work, identify what's missing, and help accelerate the vision through strategy, creativity, connection, visibility, systems, and experience.
You bring the work. I bring perspective, momentum, and the room to hold it in — alongside guest facilitators who deepen each module.
Ignite is the first container.
From there, The Incubator will support project development, and The Co. will become the ongoing community foundation where the work can keep growing.
First — Ignite
Activate the spark.
A 5-week cohort module hosted by Nicole Franco with guest facilitators.
Next — The Incubator
Shape the work.
A project-development container for projects, offers, collaborations, and the shared build of The Co.
Then — The Co.
A place to keep growing.
The ongoing cooperative community foundation and member home. Explore The Co.
Apply
Apply for Ignite.
This is an application, not a payment form. I review every submission personally and follow up with cohort fit, timing, investment, and next steps.
- · What are you creating or moving toward?
- · What kind of support would help right now?
- · Are you interested in Ignite, The Incubator, The Co., or all of it?
Questions, answered.
How long is Ignite?
Five weeks. Each cohort is a focused module with its own theme, and cohorts repeat as different modules over time.
Who hosts it?
Nicole Franco hosts and guides every cohort, with guest facilitators bringing additional perspective and practice.
Is this only for brand-new ideas?
No. Ignite is for people at any stage — an early idea, something partially built, or work already in the world that needs a clearer offer, launch support, visibility, or momentum.
Do I need to be technical?
No. I'll help you use technology and AI creatively and practically. You don't need to be a developer, designer, or marketer.
What comes after Ignite?
The Incubator supports project development after the cohort, and The Co. is the ongoing cooperative community foundation where the work can keep growing.
Is payment collected now?
No. This is an application. Investment and payment options will be shared with you before enrollment.
Stop building alone.
Five focused weeks, a cohort beside you, and real support in the room.