Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camp Speakers/Mentors. Overview. Our first Social Entrepreneurship Boot Camp was such a success that we’re doing it again. Presented in partnership with the Clinton School of Public Service, the University of Arkansas Office of Entrepreneurship and the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, the 2. Petit Jean Mountain at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute the weekend of July 1. The boot camp provides information and mentoring to teams of aspiring social entrepreneurs, equipping them with the tools and knowledge needed to get their social enterprises off the ground. It focuses on such topics as business skills, legal issues, scalability, measuring impact, ethics and benefit corporations. Speakers/Mentors. Our speaker and mentor lineup brings you some of the best and brightest in entrepreneurship and social enterprises. Read more about our confirmed speakers and mentors below and be sure to check back regularly for updates. Jeff Amerine is one of the key leaders nationally involved with the creation of lasting venture ecosystems. Jeff has held senior leadership positions in eight startups and three Fortune 5. Amerine now leads Startup Junkie Consulting. Startup Junkie Consulting provides a wide variety of programs, places/spaces, events, networking and mentoring aimed at improving small business and startup talent, providing access to capital, nurturing entrepreneurial culture and sustaining venture ecosystems. Amerine served as associate vice provost, research and economic development, and director of technology ventures at the University of Arkansas until leaving to pursue Startup Junkie Consulting full- time in January 2. His work at the university canvassed every aspect of the commercialization of life science, biotech, medical devices, health- care information technology, pharma and other areas of scientific and technical innovation. In addition, Amerine is an adjunct professor and teaches entrepreneurship at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at University of Arkansas. Amerine is also a retained advisor for Innovate Arkansas, a Winrock International program chartered with the creation and support of a knowledge- based economy in Arkansas, and has accounted for more than $2. Arkansas- based small businesses. Phyl Amerine is a founding member of Startup Junkie Consulting and has been involved in the creation of eight startups. Starting soon, students will be able to use federal loans to pay for certain coding boot camps, the immersive web development courses that promise to make students into programming experts in just a few months. The Boot Camp Candidate Toolkit assists candidates interested in participating in the preparation program to fulfill the requirements of the Non-Traditional Route to Special Education Certification as outlined in HB1233. In her first startup, Amerine developed market strategies for international licensing and partner selection with significant emphasis in Korea, China, Spain, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Singapore and India. She defined market opportunity and strategy for one of the initial Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in India. In another startup, she formed a strategic relationship with a Korean- based international telecommunications carrier, successfully gained FCC 2. U. S. Amerine has worked as a volunteer and advisor in nonprofit marketing for more than 1. Her volunteer efforts have even been recognized by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. She is also currently active in the local investment community. Amerine’s expertise and skills are in the following areas: coaching, mentoring, marketing, strategy, assumption testing, social ventures, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem development. She attended Bowie State University, where she majored in communications. Adjoa Kusiwaa Boateng is currently the regional director for West Africa at Micro. Ensure, a global microinsurance intermediary providing affordable insurance to low- income individuals and families. Having earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Sheffield (UK), Boateng started her career as an intern in the London office of Goldman Sachs. She subsequently returned to Ghana to lead two start- up businesses, including a food supply company where she helped grow revenues from $1. USD to $5 million USD in the space of five years. In 2. 01. 1, Boateng was selected by Fortune Magazine and the U. S. State Department as one of 2. Fortune/U. S. State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership. She was shortlisted as one of five finalists in the Financial Sector category of Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government, 2. Until recently, Boateng also served as the board chairman for Women’s Trust Ghana Limited, an NGO headquartered in New York which works to empower women and girls in Ghana through microenterprise, education, and access to healthcare. Nikolai Di. Pippa is the director of public programs and strategic partnerships at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Under his leadership, more than 1. They have included seven Nobel Prize winners, more than 2. Pulitzer Prize winners, more than 4. Di. Pippa is also the host and executive producer of the weekly NPR radio show Clinton School Presents, which is a dialogue with the distinguished guests that visit the Clinton School of Public Service. He helped develop and maintains the Clinton School’s speaker series website, www. Since launching in 2. Ben Kaufman works as a research officer with the Walton Family Foundation, specializing in evaluation. Prior to his current position, he was the social metrics director at Southern Bancorp, responsible for the comprehensive evaluation of Southern’s products and services across their entire market. He has developed an evaluation model that measures program and product performance as well as community- level improvement. He has extensive experience evaluating programming and projects to determine alignment and efficiencies in meeting enterprise- wide goals. Prior to his work at Southern, he developed an evaluation and measurement framework for The Timberland Company to determine impact in worker programs throughout their international supply chain. Kaufman also worked with TOMS shoes in Ethiopia to develop the supply chain for donations and developed a measurement and reporting framework for the local partner organizations. Kaufman has more than six years of non- profit management experience. Kaufman holds a master’s degree in public service from the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. David Moody is the founder of Jacksson David and Startup. Dad, interim COO for Innovis Labs and a CEO Forum leader. An honors graduate with a master’s in public administration, Moody joined NASA through the Presidential Management Internship Program. He worked in the aerospace industry for 1. Shuttle, Space Lab and Space Station programs. Since leaving the aerospace industry, Moody has owned and operated several businesses in the fields of risk management, retail and business consulting. As a consultant focused on startup and technology businesses, he has worked with a variety companies to commercialize products and services in the areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, medical devices, software as a service, online retail and energy technology. As deputy director of the Arkansas Energy Office, Moody led development of the staff and organization to administer $5. As an investor in Fund for Arkansas’ Future, Gravity II, Tonic, and Natural State Angels Association angel investment groups, he has invested in dozens of Arkansas- based startup companies and advises and mentors dozens more. On December 6, 2000, the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House published the Federal Research Misconduct Policy which required all federal agencies or departments supporting intramural or extramural. Using practice sessions and role plays, this 3-day course will give you a strong foundation in the verbal communication skills you must have to achieve both professional and personal success. Free Boot Camp for Troubled Teens Accepting New Applicants. Before her daughter Tamryn entered the Wisconsin National Guard Challenge Academy “she was out of control, hanging with gangs, doing drugs, failing school and had. 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Following his passion for entrepreneurship and education, Moody currently serves on the boards of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and the EAST Initiative, nonprofits dedicated to education, technology training and supporting startup companies. He volunteers with a variety of nonprofits, supports Startup Weekend, G6. Pitch Contest, Barcamp, Hack- A- Thons and other entrepreneurial events, and the ARK Challenge business accelerator. In addition to consulting, Moody also enjoys speaking and writing on leadership, organizational culture and entrepreneurship. Dr. Carol Reeves is the associate vice- provost for entrepreneurship and a professor and holder of the Cecil and Gwendolyn Cupp Applied Professorship in Entrepreneurship in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She coordinates entrepreneurship efforts at the university. Reeves has mentored more than 7. She has won numerous national, state and university awards for her work, including the Arkansas Alumni Association award for excellence in teaching in 2. Women Entrepreneurs by Fortune magazine in 2. C. Sam Walls Entrepreneurship Educator and SEC Faculty Achievement awards in 2. Reeves’ research has focused on the effects of family violence on the workplace and the mitigating effects of financial self- sufficiency. Her recent work has examined the influence of entrepreneurship on those at the “base of the pyramid.” Reeves is an active board member at three not- for- profit organizations. Warwick Sabin is the executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and he serves in the Arkansas House of Representatives. As the state representative for District 3. Sabin also holds the position of assistant speaker pro tempore for the 9. General Assembly. Both Arkansas Democrat- Gazette columnist John Brummett as well as Talk Business Quarterly named Sabin among the top 1. Arkansas Times called him the . In 2. 01. 4, he was among 2. Rodel Fellowship by the Aspen Institute for his . His additional professional experience includes serving as director of development for the Clinton Foundation, as well as working on Capitol Hill, at the White House and at Foreign Affairs magazine. He is a Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar, and he holds a master’s in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and a bachelor’s in political science from University of Arkansas. Dr. Cynthia Sides is the associate director for the Office of Entrepreneurship and the director of the IGNITE (Industry Generating New Ideas and Technology through Education) program at the University of Arkansas (U of A).
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