Henry J. Turner, Executive Director of the Washington, DC Small Business Development Center Network at Howard University has a 1995 graduate degree in Business Administration (MBA) from The Boston University, School of Management.  He has an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA (BA Ed.), and a Masters in Education from Boston Univ. (MS Ed.)  Mr. Turner has focused his studies on the best practices of entrepreneurs and the application of those practices to small and minority business owners.  Mr. Turner has facilitated a semester long training seminar for business owners to research and write a business plan using developed by NxLevel.  Mr. Turner has taught in the Howard University School of Business undergraduate program, UMass Boston MBA program, and UMass Boston undergraduate programs on Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship.  In 1996 Mr. Turner was elected the US Small Business Administration’s Small Minority Business Advocate for Massachusetts

Mr. Turner has been a small business consultant and strategic planner in business development to entrepreneurs and the self employed for fifteen years.  Primarily, he has worked within the Small Business Development Centers Network, were he has assisted new and existing business owners in identifying resources needed by the entrepreneur.  Mr. Turner is a member of the Association of Small Business Development Centers and serves on the Board of Directors and the Conference Committee.  In 2001 Mr. Turner was named the Executive Director of The Washington, DC Small Business Development Center at Howard University.  Mr. Turner teaches undergraduate classes in Entrepreneurship and Business Planning classes for existing entrepreneurs.

Prior to working in business consulting, Mr. Turner owned a minority manufacturing company in Lawrence, MA.  This company was one of the first SBA 8(a) manufacturers, specifically in the high tech fields of electronics,  contracting with Department of Defense agencies, The Army and The Air Force.  His company was one of the top New England Prime Contractors in 1983.

The DC SBDC is located at Howard University within the School of Business.  Funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Howard University , the mission of the centers is to provide free counseling assistance and at low cost training to small Washington, DC based business owners in growing and developing their businesses, through information from the SBA and faculty research, direct contact with full time consultants, graduate students, and consulting from faculty.