Bio – Monica Brulé

Monica has a wealth of knowledge, experience, dedication, and motivation having owned two businesses over the course of twelve years.  She most recently served as the Senior Business Consultant for the Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (SBDC) where she consulted with over 1,100 small businesses and had over $23 million in economic impact. She has taught hundreds of entrepreneurial focused small business workshops, was an instructor for the California Small Business Development Center’s Professional Development Program and has returned to her alma mater, CSUSB, to teach entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is certified as a Right Start Instructor and FastTrac Facilitator and has received numerous awards for her accomplishments as an instructor, facilitator and business consultant. Most recently, she participated in a White House Briefing on Contract Bundling and Small Business.

Monica Brulé currently serves as the Project Director for California State University San Bernardino Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s (IECE) Entrepreneurial Training and Technical Assistance Program (ETTAP) and as Executive Co-Director for the Inland Empire Women’s Business Center. The ETTAP program, which is offered at only five universities in the US, seeks to assist small disadvantaged businesses gain access to government contracts from the Federal Department of Transportation (DOT) and DOT related agencies. As Director she is responsible for administering this DOT program and develop new processes and procedures for replication elsewhere in the nation.

Monica also serves as the Executive Co-Director for the Inland Empire Women’s Business Center (IE WBC). The IE WBC is a partnership between IECE and the US Small Business Administration and is designed to assist aspiring and existing business owners in all aspects of business.

Monica received both her undergraduate degree in Small Business Management and her graduate degree in Entrepreneurship from California State University San Bernardino’s College of Business and Public Administration.