Entrepreneurial Mindset In Education With Kathy Boyd And Kim Goodwin

In the newest episode of The Entrepreneurial Mindset Project, Gary speaks with Kathy Boyd and Kim Goodwin, two inspiring leaders from the Orange County Department of Education, who have embraced this entrepreneurial mindset to make a real difference. They share the innovative ways they’re using entrepreneurial thinking to improve the student experience and piloting ideas on a small scale before going big, collaborating across teams, and pushing boundaries while respecting the necessary guardrails.

Great Bend Economic Development Offers Ice House with the First Class Free

Great Bend Economic Development (GBED) to host the second year of the “Entrepreneurial Mindset” series! This opportunity invites aspiring entrepreneurs, business enthusiasts, and community members to explore the concepts of entrepreneurial thinking in an engaging and welcoming environment. Should attendees choose to continue with the full program, there will be weekly classes facilitated by Jim Correll and Kimberly Becker, featuring interactive discussions, video content, and insights from the book Who Owns the Ice House? by Clifton Taulbert. Additionally, local entrepreneurs will share their real-world experiences, offering valuable perspectives on the rewards and challenges of building a business.

Ditching the Easy Fix at Victor Valley College

If you’re always implementing an easy fix, you’re probably looking at all your problems as technical issues rather than complex, adaptive ones. But it can be hard to find the motivation to change. Not to mention difficulties making the time to peel back the layers of those big, intractable issues and devise solutions.

Here’s a pep talk in the form of an example from Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where McKenzie Tarango is the Dean of Instruction, Public Safety & Industrial Technology. She inherited a tricky challenge involving fiscal accountability in a program with hundreds of instructors and multiple classes. Some of these classes were so complex their schedules weren’t even written out.

Tarango chose it for her very first project under a new entrepreneurial mindset opportunity from her boss, Victor Valley College Superintendent, and President Dan Walden.