Ecosystem Building
As Chief of Staff at Black Tech Saturdays, I translate community momentum into operating systems — strategy, programming, and the day-to-day execution that lets a movement scale.
Learn moreChief of Staff, Black Tech Saturdays · Founder, Embarc
Lauren UddybackEcosystem Builder · HBCU Advocate
I'm an ecosystem builder and HBCU advocate in Detroit. I help mission-driven organizations, founders, and students build the operational muscle — and the connections — to thrive in the innovation economy.
Chief of Staff — Black Tech Saturdays Founder — Embarc Business Consulting Dillard University Honors Alumna
Detroit, MIBuilding the innovation economy
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Black Tech SaturdaysDetroit Regional Chamber7 News DetroitColorwaveDillard University
Lauren Uddyback turns community energy into working systems. As Chief of Staff at Black Tech Saturdays, she leads the strategy and operations behind one of Detroit's fastest-growing tech-and-entrepreneurship communities — and as founder of Embarc Business Consulting, she gives universities, early-stage founders, and mission-driven startups the fractional business support they need to grow with discipline.
A proud Dillard University honors graduate, she pairs an accountant's rigor with an organizer's heart. Her throughline is access: building the pathways that let HBCU talent and underrepresented professionals find their place in the industries shaping the future.
3+ yrs
Chief of Staff, Black Tech Saturdays
10 yrs
Member, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
3.81
Honors GPA, Dillard University
2023
Founded Embarc Business Consulting
What I do
Three ways I create impact
Strategy and operations for the movement, fractional support for the organizations building it, and a steady voice for the talent too often left out of the room.
Fractional Strategy & Operations
Through Embarc Business Consulting, I give universities, early-stage founders, and mission-driven startups the fractional business support and strategic guidance to grow with discipline.
Learn moreAdvocacy & Speaking
I champion HBCU talent and underrepresented professionals — on panels, in the press, and in the rooms where Detroit's tech future is being decided.
Learn more“We're in another Industrial Revolution, and I think Detroit is really fertile soil for that next wave of technology.”Lauren Uddybackto 7 News Detroit (WXYZ), on AI and Detroit's tech future
How I help
The work behind the mission
Where an accountant's rigor meets an organizer's heart.
Strategic & Operational Planning
Turning vision into a plan a team can actually run — goals, roadmaps, and the operating cadence that keeps momentum from leaking out between meetings.
Program Management & Implementation
Designing and delivering programs end to end, from concept to launch to measurement — the discipline that turns a good idea into a repeatable result.
Ecosystem & Community Building
Connecting founders, investors, institutions, and talent into a network that compounds — the relationship infrastructure a thriving tech scene runs on.
Fractional Business Support
Embedded, part-time operating leadership for universities, non-profits, and early-stage startups that need senior judgment without a full-time hire.
Let's build something that lasts.
Whether you're planning an event, growing a mission-driven organization, or building Detroit's next chapter — I'd love to hear what you're working on.