Lilian Mauro is Regional Director of the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at The College of New Jersey, where she leads initiatives supporting entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses across multiple counties. With more than a decade of experience in small business development, she specializes in business formation, access to capital, certifications, strategic planning, and economic development partnerships. Lilian is actively advancing AI integration into small business advising and operations — recently earning a Mini-MBA in Artificial Intelligence and a certificate in Prompt Engineering — and is committed to helping entrepreneurs responsibly adopt AI to improve productivity, marketing, and decision-making.