What is Hera Hub? Think business accelerator meets shared workspace with a spa atmosphere!
Hera Hub is a shared, flexible work and meeting space where entrepreneurial women can create and collaborate in a professional, productive, spa-like environment. The platform provides our members with connections to other business experts, access to educational workshops, and visibility within the community… thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous. From our platform, new businesses have been spurred, funding secured and life-long friendships built. Hera Hub D.C. opened in Friendship Heights in May 2015.
Mission: To provide entrepreneurial women with a productive, professional work and meeting space, where they can connect with a like-minded community to collaborate and flourish.
Vision: To support over 20,000 women in the launch and growth of their business by 2020.
Beautiful, yet Functional, Coworking Space
Unlike other coworking spaces that tend to focus on recreating typical office settings, all of the Hera Hub locations were designed to benefit your entire being. See the space. Our coworking spaces focus on the five senses:
- Sight – beautiful art, live plants, calming colors, friendly faces
- Smell – aromatic candles that relax and invigorate
- Sound – soft spa-like music and tranquil running water
- Feel – variety of comfortable seating arrangements, including standing work stations
- Taste – fresh brewed coffee, tea, spa water and snacks
The Hera Hub community is for those…
- Who want a flexible professional working space without having to commit to an office
- Who want to meet like-minded people
- Who feel the need for easy access to reliable resources
- Who are keen on learning and keeping abreast with the latest and newest trends in the industry
While we are female-focused we’re not exclusive to women. Our members are at all stages of business development and in a variety of industries, including:
- Technology
- Finance/Accounting
- Health & Wellness
- Marketing/PR/Branding
- Legal
- Education
- Personal Services
- Nonprofits
Member Benefits
Hera Hub membership doesn’t just mean having access to collaborative, serene, and productive workspace; you also become part of a community of like-minded ambitious women who are successfully moving their dreams forward.
Hera Hub membership is:
- Flexible. All of our plans are month-to-month so you’re never locked down.
- All-inclusive. No nickel and diming here! Internet, printing, coffee, tea, and snacks are provided at each location.
- Easy access to a community of talented professionals. No more hunting for that perfect person to collaborate with on a big project because they are most likely sitting next to you. This shared workspace means creativity and productivity thrive here.
Hera Hub is not a one-size-fits-all community. We offer various levels of month-to-month membership to meet our member’s needs and budget. Memberships range from $89-$249. Learn more: https://herahub.com/dc/membership.
What’s behind the name, Hera?
Felena Hanson, Hera Hub’s creator, has always been drawn to Greek mythology. She ultimately decided on “Hera” for her strong significance and historical meaning. In ancient times, Hera was revered as being the only Goddess who accompanied a woman through every step of her life, blessing, and protecting her daily. Being Zeus’ wife, Hera represented the fullness of life and affirms that women can use their wisdom in the pursuit of any goal they chose.
About the Founder
Over the past twenty years, Julia Westfall has worked with many small businesses (from retailers to architects to marketers to non-profits) as a Human Resource & Finance Director. In addition to providing standard bookkeeping, cash flow, payroll, tax planning, financial statement preparation, audit management and overall business planning services, she streamlined their financial processes and procedures to reduce the costs of these services to her clients. From a human resources perspective, she also has helped them develop employee handbooks, manage their benefits and compensation packages, establish 401(k) plans, FSA’s and other employee benefit options.
Julia also has experience helping build organizations from the ground up. An early venture was running the first PC retail store in the country for Wang Laboratories, an innovative technology Fortune 500 company. She later became a co-founder of a DC Public Charter School, where she helped build a charter school from the application process to it’s opening, and continued on as the Director of Finance for four more years.
Early in her career she also worked for IBM, as a systems engineer and sales person, as well as Wang, in marketing and sales management, which helped provide her with critical sales, marketing and management skills that she still utilizes today.
She is passionate about building a platform for female entrepreneurs to collaborate and support each other because of the experiences she has had in her own career. She found that the possibility to improve the value of your as well as other’s work product is exponentially greater through collaboration and believes that one plus one can equal twenty with the right spirit and opportunity.
Media Mentions
Customer Testimonials
I cannot recommend Hera Hub more. It’s a great environment to work with all the facilities and an excellent location, but the best part is the community of colleagues working there. There is opportunity for collaboration and support among a wide variety of professionals and lots of possibilities to get to know each other through member events, guru hours, business boosters and other networking opportunities. You’ll never work from home again! – Lisa O’Donoghue-Lindy
Hera Hub DC is uniquely set up and executed to create the BEST working atmosphere for professionally supporting, connecting and encouraging women entrepreneurs to achieve success as defined by each individual! Using the space as meeting / work space outside of my regular office region I am still able to recognize the community benefits even on days when I am not on site! Crazy-smart motivated women building amazing companies. Love just being in the room with them. – Talmar Anderson
HeraHub DC is an amazing resource for professional women of all ages. Co-working has nothing to do with foozball tables and everything to do with meeting great women, having a pleasant environment to work in and expanding our horizons. Even if you don’t want or need a place to work, become a community access member and join in the business and community building activities. The more of us who join together, the more powerful the energy we create. – Lauren A. Burnhill
We hosted the launch of my client’s company at Hera Hub, and it was the perfect venue that blended an atmosphere of professionalism with warmth and privacy. The added benefit was access to the resources of Hera Hub and opening doors of communication with like-minded members who could connect with my client and her business from both a personal and professional standpoint.I would highly recommend Hera Hub to any woman in business on her own or with others who is interested in connecting with fellow driven, motivated women! – Melanie Gowen
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