Description:
Opportunity Recognition; Creativity; Leverage, Risk and Guerilla Action
Presenter:
Tony Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Clinical Full Professor of Leadership
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Tony Middlebrooks, Ph.D., creates programs and tools, designs learning experiences, and explores the intersection of leadership, innovation, creativity, and design. He is Clinical Full Professor of Leadership in the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He has taught aspiring leaders from youth through executives, creating a wide range of courses and programs in the process. Dr. Middlebrooks is lead author of the textbook Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success, now in its second edition; has published numerous articles and book chapters, and delivered hundreds of presentations. He is also co-author of Public Sector Leadership, co-creator of the Idea Fan Deck and Design Thinking Cards, and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Leadership Studies. Dr. Middlebrooks has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Categories: Financial Literacy, Funding
Start Date: 11/07/2023 5:30 PM EST
End Date: 11/07/2023 7:00 PM EST
Organizer: African American Entrepreneurs Association, Inc
Venue: Webinar/Online
https://www.aaeaaccesstocapital.com************************************************
Description:
Business Model Development and Testing; Selling Your Ideas
Presenter:
Chris Pryor, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Christopher Pryor is an assistant clinical professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. He researches the links between top executives and firms' entrepreneurial outcomes as well as issues related to formality and child labor in developing economies. His work has been published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies.
Categories: Financial Literacy, Funding
Start Date: 11/14/2023 5:30 PM EST
End Date: 11/14/2023 7:00 PM EST
Organizer: African American Entrepreneurs Association, Inc
Venue: Webinar/Online
https://www.aaeaaccesstocapital.com***********************************************
Description:
Opportunity Recognition
Presenter:
Jamie Kraft, MBA, Director
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Jamie Kraft is the Director for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at the University of Florida. Jamie came to the Center from Deloitte Consulting where he spent several years as a management consultant focusing on economic performance evaluation, competitive assessment, and strategic development for clients in the manufacturing and consumer products industries. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Microbiology and from the University of Florida as a Matherly Scholar with a MBA specializing in Finance, Operations Management, and Business Strategy. Before starting with the Center, Jamie spent one year in Paris studying the French language. He has been with the Center for the past 20 years and is currently the Center’s Director. He has served as the instructor for courses covering the topics of the entrepreneurial mindset, business planning, technology commercialization, small business consulting, customer discovery, entrepreneurial leadership, and creativity, and has managed, led and participated in student programs in Silicon Valley, Hungary, Ireland, Chile, Cuba, South Africa and Haiti.
Categories: Financial Literacy, Funding
Start Date: 11/21/2023 5:30 PM EST
End Date: 11/21/2023 7:00 PM EST
Organizer: African American Entrepreneurs Association, Inc
Venue: Webinar/Online
https://www.aaeaaccesstocapital.com***************************************************
Description:
Selling Your Ideas: The Pitch
Presenter:
Ted Astleford, MBA, Director
Experiential Learning Programs
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Ted Astleford graduated from University of Florida in 1998 with a degree in Finance, and in 2004 with an MBA. Shortly thereafter, he joined the team at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (EIC) at the University of Florida where he currently teaches ‘GatorNest’, a student staffed early-stage business consulting course. In 2014, Ted won UF’s Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator Award. He has helped to start and run several businesses including an online venture, a not-for-profit, and a business consulting company.
Categories: Financial Literacy, Funding
Start Date: 11/28/2023 5:30 PM EST
End Date: 11/28/2023 7:30 PM EST
Organizer: African American Entrepreneurs Association, Inc
Venue: Webinar/Online
https://www.aaeaaccesstocapital.com
