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| Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view this email as a web page instead.   Issue 3 \| March 2025   ANNOUNCING Online Professional Development Opportunity This July Our Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training and Certification is a four-week program designed to equip educators, workforce and small business development professionals, and non-profit leaders with the tools and skills to unlock the entrepreneurial potential in others. Drawing on the principles of the Ice House Entrepreneurial Mindset Programs, our training enables participants to cultivate entrepreneurial mindsets in diverse settings. You will learn about our research into the entrepreneurial mindset, and we will get together on live Zoom sessions to discuss concepts further, as well as the best methods for facilitation. In addition to the live sessions, you will engage in a mix of recorded presentations, small group and individual activities, discussions, and experiential, problem-based learning through an Opportunity Discovery Process.     CONFERENCES & EVENTS      The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage at The Center for Free Enterprise The Center for Free Enterprise seeks to bring together Ohio business leaders interested in middle market mergers & acquisitions, new venture formation and growth, and other business issues that present challenges and opportunities to us as individuals and to the region as a whole. On Friday, March 21st, Gary will share the hidden logic that unleashes human potential, from his best-selling book, The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage, with their audience. See You There?     JOIN OUR MONTHLY WEBINAR   Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindsets: In Classrooms, Organizations, and Communities In this webinar, we will describe the underlying beliefs and taken-for-granted assumptions that enable ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things. By combining insights gleaned from the observation of everyday entrepreneurs with motivational research, we look beyond new venture creation to reveal a teachable framework for thinking that has become essential for individuals, organizations, and communities to thrive in today’s rapidly changing world.   Thursday, March 13 \| 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET Register Now      EXPANDING MINDSET      At Daytona State, Curiosity Turns to Conviction About the Benefits of an Entrepreneurial Mindset In early 2021, Daytona State College received a grant for nearly $100,000 to introduce students in its Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to an entrepreneurial mindset. Looking back, the college seems prescient. Its Entrepreneurial Mindset Opportunity (EMO) initiative is intentional about helping students recognize the ways to harness their own life lessons in the pursuit of opportunities to create value for others. In addition, the EMO initiative also gives students the confidence and the strategic tools they need to be successful. Regardless if they’re starting a business or graduating into a work world roiled by labor shortages and the Great Resignation.  “\[Our students\] have an entrepreneurial mindset, but they don’t have a name for it,” said Dr. Sherryl Weems. Dr. Weems is the Associate Vice President of the Mary Karl College of Workforce and Continuing Education. “It’s just survival. They see a need or an opportunity, and they pivot because it’s a way of life, especially if you’re juggling bills and expenses and trying to feed your family. They learn to adjust out of necessity as any entrepreneur or motivated and focused individual would.”  Learn More     The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage Is Available Everywhere Books Are Sold Combining the stories of everyday entrepreneurs with research in behavioral science, this new book shares a practical five-step how-to guide and shows readers how to use an entrepreneurial mindset to better identify opportunities, mobilize resources, and make things happen in their lives while also encouraging others to do the same. Order Today     You received this email because you are subscribed to our ELI Newsletter from The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. Unsubscribe from all future emails © The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative \| All Rights Reserved The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative   PO Box 986    Mentor  Ohio   44061   United States |
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