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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

Board Effect

Mission-driven organizations strive to serve their communities and constituents with integrity and purpose. Consider this: When boards embrace diversity, the pulse of our communities strengthens, and our impact magnifies. Far beyond corporate strategy; it’s about fulfilling missions effectively.

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Getting Your Volunteer Board Ready for Oversight, Insight and Foresight

Board Effect

The expert panelists included Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director at Diligent Institute and founding team member of BoardEffect; James “Jim” Pieffer, President and CEO at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network ; and Laurence “Larry” Gumina, CEO at Ohio Living. And the board took a step back.

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[Interview] Mark C. Perna, Founder And CEO Of TFS, Cleveland, Ohio

YoungUpstarts

Our mission is to share and support every client’s passion for making a difference, and it’s thrilling to see our clients being empowered to do that every day in their communities. How do you explain the paradox of our country’s labor shortage while millions of people are unemployed?

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Governance in Healthcare: Best Practices after COVID-19

Board Effect

Just as healthcare organizations struggled with how to adapt to mergers and meet the evolving needs of their communities, COVID-19 struck with a vengeance forcing changes in governance in healthcare. The current times are especially challenging for community-based boards that lack experience in operating during a global crisis.

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Community Relations And The Small Business

YoungUpstarts

You can’t expect to realize profits without the community’s support of your company. Positive community relationships are vital ones that can make or break your good name. By building solid relationships within the community, you will effortlessly drive customers to your way. Attend Events. Donate to Local Charities.

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Back to the Classroom – The Educators Summit

Steve Blank

The respondent panel will include, Brandy Nagel ( Georgia Tech ), and Ivy Shultz ( Columbia University ), Michael Camp ( Ohio State ), Jim Hornthal ( UC Berkeley). We look forward to gathering as a community of educators to shape the future of Lean Innovation Education. This session is free to all but limited to Innovation educators.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Being in Ohio, which lacks the startup ecosystem of an entrepreneurial cluster like Silicon Valley, made it difficult for Will to get funding for his first startup, Huddlewoo : The type of business that we were building needed an investment of capital ahead of revenue. It’s different types of selling. That’s important me.