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The Institute for Purposeful Entrepreneurship ("IPE") is the world's leading provider of training and support for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference through their business, online and offline.

IPE was founded in 2008 by Purposeful Business Strategist Marcia Bench as one way to leverage the intersecting trends of exploding entrepreneurship and emerging global spirituality/quest for meaning and purpose.

Our vision is:

A planet where each person expresses his/her unique gifts in a business or role that blends personal fulfillment, financial rewards, and positive impact on the planet and its inhabitants, delivering his/her services in a way that creates personal freedom and uses both active and passive revenue streams.

Our mission is:

  • To help more than 1 million people awaken to newly found or increased freedom of personal expression through purposeful entrepreneurship between 2010 and 2020
  • To champion the growth of purposeful entrepreneurship as a primary means of both economic development and creative expression, for both new and established entrepreneurs
  • To research, incubate, and share findings about the “new entrepreneur” movement (the “Entrepreneurial Renaissance”™) including spirituality, marketing, business building, sustainability and more
  • To train, certify, mentor and otherwise equip purposeful entrepreneurs in virtual business specialties that are easy to start, afford the entrepreneur freedom and flexibility in their business schedule and environment (whether home-based or not), and contribute to the positive growth of individuals on the planet.
  • To exemplify purposeful entrepreneurship in all that we do, including the use of universal spiritual principles in our daily business practices and offerings, sensitivity to and accommodation of our staff’s and customers’ lifestyle needs with family as a priority, ongoing awareness and following of Spirit’s guidance in our business direction and resolution of business issues, and manifestation of abundant revenues of which we share a portion with charitable and entrepreneurial causes worldwide.

Our core values are:

  • Innovation
  • Creative Expression
  • Personal Freedom
  • Learning/education
  • Fulfillment
  • Transformation
  • Open-minded perspective
  • Sustainability
  • Integrity
  • Spiritual awakening and connection

About Chief Entrepreneurial Officer Marcia Bench:

Chief Entrepreneurial Officer Marcia BenchMarcia realized in her teens that she had an important life's purpose to fulfill, and began a quest to discover it. Throughout her years in high school, college and law school she pursued personal and spiritual growth. It was finally when she became a part-time entrepreneur in 1986 that she knew she was honing in on her purpose.

Her first business was a consulting, speaking and consulting firm helping individuals with business start-up, marketing and business development. She also got involved with state entrepreneurial politics and was visible in the Portland, Oregon area entrepreneur community.

She then formed her own law firm and, after just 2 years, wrote her first book, When 9 to 5 Isn't Enough, later published by Hay House, and embarked on a national book/seminar tour. She sold her home, law practice and possessions to buy an RV and travel the country for 10 months, helping people do what they love for a living. She shared the stage with Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and other notable speakers.

Marcia discovered coaching in 2000 after a stint as an Executive Vice President in a career management firm. She absolutely loved the power of coaching to help clients uncover the answers they sought for themselves. Shortly after graduating from coaching school she founded Career Coach Institute and quickly grew it to a mid-6-figure earning, international coach training company in the new niche of career coaching.

She has been active throughout her 20-plus year career in supporting entrepreneurship through her writing, speaking, and volunteering. She was on the Oregon Governor's Committee for Minority and Women Business Participation, and was selected as a facilitator at the White House Conference on Small Business.

In 2008, Marcia once again felt the calling to step into her purpose in a bigger way, so in November 2008 she founded the Institute for Purposeful Entrepreneurship to help entrepreneurs - and would-be entrepreneurs - discover the freedom of expressing their life purpose through their own passionate, profitable business.

She has studied and coached with such mentors as Ali Brown, David Neagle, Baeth Davis, and other internet marketing and spiritual entrepreneur leaders. Marcia now coaches an elite number of individual entrepreneur clients, hosts periodic live events to help entrepreneurs apply her Purposeful Entrepreneur Blueprint™ and/or learn to coach Purposeful Entrepreneurs, and offers information products to support entrepreneurs in their business design, marketing, product creation and growth using her proven systems. She is a frequent guest on teleclasses, in the media, and at live events.

A former attorney, Marcia has authored 23 books and is a master at both creating her own products and mentoring others in creating theirs.  Her latest are The Tao of Entrepreneurship: 52 Lessons in Applying Spirituality to Entrepreneurship (High Flight Press 2009), Career Coaching: An Insider’s Guide (High Flight Press 2008) and Career Infopreneur’s Success Roadmap (High Flight Press 2007). 

Marcia's education includes a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Western Oregon University.  In addition, she is a Certified Career Management Practitioner through the International Board of Career Management Certification, a Certified Business Coach, a Certified Teleader and Master Certified Career Coach.

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About Our Staff

Online Business Manager:

Tiffany Johnson

Tiffany Johnson is a seasoned Online Business Manager passionate about seeing Entrepreneurs LIVE their success dream. She excels in team development, systems/process management and project leadership.  As an entrepreneur herself, she understands the challenges and successes of running, maintaining and developing a strong foundational business.  Tiffany believes fully her success lies only in the success of the businesses she serves.

As the IPE OBM, Tiffany has partnered with Marcia in progressing the Institute of Purposeful Entrepreneurship vision and seeing to the overall details of its Mission being implemented both in effectiveness and excellence. She is equally committed to serving the IPE community as each purposeful entrepreneur obtains higher clarity in their business endeavors.

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