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title: "Your January Rundown from ELI: News, Resources, & More! "
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| Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view this email as a web page instead.   Issue 1 \| January 2025   LAST CHANCE Final Reminder to Register for February Facilitator Training Don't miss your chance to participate in our first professional development opportunity of 2025! Our Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Training and Certification is 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’ll gain practical tools and techniques to facilitate change, inspire teams, and create meaningful impact.   Click the button below to view the learning outcomes, agenda, cost, and more!     NEW PODCAST EPISODE      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. Listen & Subscribe    CLIENT NEWS      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. Learn More     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, he looks 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.   Wednesday, Feb. 5 \| 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET Register Now      EXPANDING MINDSET      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. Learn More     The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage Available Now 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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