Next Facilitator Training, New Podcast Episode, and What Event's You'll Find Us At

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The next online facilitator training opportunity in November is open for registration!

Led by Gary Schoeniger and Rob Herndon, the facilitator training is a blend of pre-recorded lectures, live sessions, as well as group discussions and activities to immerse new facilitators in the power of the eight life lessons.

When one facilitator, Judy Raper, and a colleague from Greenfield Community College (GCC) attended Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training in the summer of 2020, she was less than two years into a new role at the college after 32 years in student affairs. The Community Engagement role still felt like a new world—and Raper was unsure if she would succeed within it.

“Entrepreneurship was a big part of my work, and I couldn’t even spell it,” she recalled with a laugh. “Ice House offered me the realization that I just needed to look at my job differently. While the material itself wasn’t new, the delivery of it was transformative for me."

Learn more about how others have taken what they've learned during facilitator training and impacted their students by visiting our updated case studies page.


COMPANY NEWS

New Podcast Episode - John Kendale: How A Single Dad Turned An Everyday Problem Into An Opportunity

Entrepreneur John Kendale joined us for an engaging conversation about his journey to become the inventor and owner of Toppy Toddler bibs. Listen in to hear about how John began his entrepreneurial journey with one simple idea, solving a problem any parent might face, a messy baby eating a meal.

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CONFERENCES & EVENTS

Work In The Job Revolution

Concordia College's 2021 Faith, Reason, and World Affairs Symposium seeks to affirm the importance of college learning to invest in readiness for lifelong employment where one can cultivate a life worth living through making a difference to the needs of the world. The symposium will examine the emerging interest of employers in resilient and resourceful skills, qualities, and mindsets that go beyond technical competence and confer ability to work with others, negotiate multiple cultures, and tackle complex problems. Those with such talent will adapt and flourish amid coming changes to work posed by automation. They will find purpose in addressing the needs of the world they live in and joy in jobs yet to be imagined.

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NACCE 2021

Join us for NACCE’s Annual Conference, Entrepreneurship in America’s Heartland, from October 3 – 6, 2021. The event will be delivered in a hybrid format! Because NACCE is considered one of the foremost conveners of leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship, the conference attracts a rich array of community college presidents, educators, administrators, and center directors focused on igniting entrepreneurship on their campuses and in their communities from throughout North America. This year, the lineup of mainstage topics ranges from healing social unrest to innovation and inclusion in the classroom to policy change.

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JOIN OUR UPCOMING WEBINARS

Entrepreneurship in Education Series: Erik Pedersen and Amara Kniep, Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities

TOMORROW! All across Kansas, residents are taking a deep dive into entrepreneur-led development thanks to NetWork Kansas. More specifically, Erik Pedersen, Vice President of Entrepreneurship, and Amara Kniep, Manager of E-Community Programs. In this webinar, Erik and Amara will discuss how they connect entrepreneurs and small business owners with expertise, education, and economic resources to promotes a more entrepreneurial environment throughout the state.

Wednesday, September 8 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET

Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindsets: In Classrooms, Organizations, and Communities

The world has changed in ways that now require everyone to think like an entrepreneur. After all, entrepreneurs are resilient and resourceful, creative and critical thinkers who possess the 21st-century skills the world now demands. What is an entrepreneurial mindset? Why is it important? And, how can we cultivate it in ourselves and others?

Thursday, September 23 | 2:00 - 3:15 PM ET


EXPANDING MINDSET

A Managerial vs. Entrepreneurial Approach to Leadership

You might have seen the recent Inside Higher Ed article published in March of 2021 titled “Colleges a ‘Juicy Target” for Cyberextortion.” As if mask mandates (or lack thereof), vaccination hesitancy, the Delta Variant, and all the other disruptions that we’ve seen over the last 18 months aren’t enough, now cybercriminals have our schools in their crosshairs. And it’s not just higher ed institutions that are at risk. Someone could soon find my 5-year-old niece’s Social Security Number on the dark web if more attacks happen in K-12 systems as we start the 2021-2022 school year as predicted here.

As educational leaders, how can we possibly tackle this problem? And, how can we increase our IT systems’ overall cyber defenses amid all the critical issues we are facing right now? This example is great to demonstrate how an entrepreneurial approach can pay bigger dividends over time than a more traditional managerial approach to this problem.

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"Who Owns the Ice House?" Is Available in Multiple Formats!

Learn the eight life lessons of Uncle Cleve, Clifton Taulbert, and Gary Schoeniger in the format that is best for you! "Much more than a book on entrepreneurship. It is a book about how the mindset and actions of the good & reliable stands out from the average. It is a series of stories that reflect the good old values of how one carries oneself in life...This one's a classic."

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