Founder Thursdays @Spark
Presented by Spark Coworking × Techstars AI Health Baltimore × Novella Center for Entrepreneurship
A weekly working session for Baltimore founders. Open to all area founders.
Founder Thursdays @Spark is a weekly coworking day designed for founders who want a focused, professional place to work alongside other builders.
In 2026, Spark Coworking celebrates 10 years of serving entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators. Founder Thursdays marks that milestone not just as an anniversary, but as a celebration of the Baltimore founder community and the next decade of companies being built here. Founder Thursdays is hosted in collaboration with Techstars and Novella Center for Entrepreneurship.
Spark is celebrating 10 years of supporting Baltimore’s founder community, and Founder Thursdays is our way of giving back.
Every week: Come work at Spark alongside other founders in a professional, distraction-free environment
First Thursday of each month is free — a special anniversary welcome
All other Thursdays: $10 per day
For just $10, founders get unlimited coffee, espresso, and tea, high-speed Wi-Fi, phone booths, printing, discounted meeting rooms, and a professional workspace alongside other builders.
Founder Thursdays reflects what Spark was founded on 10 years ago: creating space for founders to work, connect organically, and build together.
Registration required to attend.
Open Enrollment as a Business Owner
Working a full-time job while building a business or side hustle? Join Crystal Barney, CPA, for a practical discussion on how to approach open enrollment when you have both employee benefits and self-employment income. We’ll cover strategies for evaluating health insurance, HSAs and FSAs, retirement contributions, and other workplace benefits while keeping your business and personal financial goals in mind.
Bring your lunch, your benefits questions, and your business-owner hat.
Learn more about JBA: https://jbamd.com/crunch-and-munch/
Founder Thursdays @Spark
Presented by Spark Coworking × Techstars AI Health Baltimore × Novella Center for Entrepreneurship
A weekly working session for Baltimore founders. Open to all area founders.
Founder Thursdays @Spark is a weekly coworking day designed for founders who want a focused, professional place to work alongside other builders.
In 2026, Spark Coworking celebrates 10 years of serving entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators. Founder Thursdays marks that milestone not just as an anniversary, but as a celebration of the Baltimore founder community and the next decade of companies being built here. Founder Thursdays is hosted in collaboration with Techstars and Novella Center for Entrepreneurship.
Spark is celebrating 10 years of supporting Baltimore’s founder community, and Founder Thursdays is our way of giving back.
Every week: Come work at Spark alongside other founders in a professional, distraction-free environment
First Thursday of each month is free — a special anniversary welcome
All other Thursdays: $10 per day
For just $10, founders get unlimited coffee, espresso, and tea, high-speed Wi-Fi, phone booths, printing, discounted meeting rooms, and a professional workspace alongside other builders.
Founder Thursdays reflects what Spark was founded on 10 years ago: creating space for founders to work, connect organically, and build together.
Registration required to attend.
WE ALL SHARE A COMMUNICATION BLIND SPOT.
Here's What It Is — and What To Do About It.
Most workplace friction has nothing to do with strategy, skill, or intent. It comes from one universal blind spot — the assumption that being direct means being harsh, and being kind means staying quiet.
Join global leadership advisor Omar Khan for 60 minutes that could change how you communicate at work, at home, everywhere that matters. Starting this afternoon.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
◆ The one shift that ends the false choice between honesty and kindness
◆ A practical tool you can use in your very next difficult conversation — at work or at home
◆ A new way to hear conflict — as information, not as a threat
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Omar Khan is the creator of Loving Assertiveness and Director of 3S Catalyst Consulting — 35 years of leadership and communication work across 50+ countries, named one of the Top 25 Consultants in the World by Consulting Magazine. He recently relocated his practice to Baltimore.
Just bring your lunch. We'll bring the rest.
Free and open to the public — hosted at Spark Coworking
Space is limited — RSVP required.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
About the Loving Assertiveness Practice
“I've never experienced anything like this. Everyone needs this.”
— Global Mediator
“Life changing.”
— Leon Menendez, HSBC
“Longstanding conflicts, big ones and small ones, have really shifted. I also feel my relationship with my wife and children have really deepened since I began using these tools.”
— Joe, Corporate Leader
“This has had a dramatic effect on my life. Since the workshop, the long sought after peace and joy has been so much more of my ongoing reality. I am eternally grateful.”
— Cynthia Sanali
Directness with heart. Warmth with edge.
“What would you say if you knew it would land well?”
Omar Khan | Director, 3S Catalyst Consulting
omar@lovingassertiveness.com | www.lovingassertiveness.com
Founder Thursdays @Spark
Presented by Spark Coworking × Techstars AI Health Baltimore × Novella Center for Entrepreneurship
A weekly working session for Baltimore founders. Open to all area founders.
Founder Thursdays @Spark is a weekly coworking day designed for founders who want a focused, professional place to work alongside other builders.
In 2026, Spark Coworking celebrates 10 years of serving entrepreneurs, creators, and innovators. Founder Thursdays marks that milestone not just as an anniversary, but as a celebration of the Baltimore founder community and the next decade of companies being built here. Founder Thursdays is hosted in collaboration with Techstars and Novella Center for Entrepreneurship.
Spark is celebrating 10 years of supporting Baltimore’s founder community, and Founder Thursdays is our way of giving back.
Every week: Come work at Spark alongside other founders in a professional, distraction-free environment
First Thursday of each month is free — a special anniversary welcome
All other Thursdays: $10 per day
For just $10, founders get unlimited coffee, espresso, and tea, high-speed Wi-Fi, phone booths, printing, discounted meeting rooms, and a professional workspace alongside other builders.
Founder Thursdays reflects what Spark was founded on 10 years ago: creating space for founders to work, connect organically, and build together.
Registration required to attend.
When you are a growing small business or solo entrepreneur, it can be tough to throw a company holiday party on a startup budget.
Spark Baltimore is here to make our holiday party...YOUR holiday party!
Join our 11th annual Every Startup's Holiday Party on Thursday, December 3rd and celebrate your 2026 success with other growing companies and individuals building the Baltimore startup & entrepreneurial ecosystem!
