The Pino Center for Entrepreneurship at FIU, where I am a Board member, recently relocated off campus to Brickell Avenue in downtown Miami. With this change has come a new approach to workshops. Now Pino will offer lunch time workshops from 11am-1pm.The first workshop will be held on Friday, September 13.
I will be the speaker at this first workshop and the topic is how to develop an effective growth strategy. The topic will be relevant to companies from napkin stage to $30 million in annual revenue and examples will be drawn from both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Very practical workshop with little theory.
I have been re-thinking the whole process of business concept development and will be presenting some new ideas since my book, Billion Dollar Company, was published in 2010. I now have a more formalized approach to identifying the opportunities that create large companies. If you have not heard me speak in 2-3 years, it may be worthwhile to come by for a refresher.
More details on the workshop are here. (Pino incorrectly identifies me as the current CFO of One Laptop per Child. This is a previous position.) If you are not familiar with FIU Downtown, the address is 1101 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131. The fee, which includes lunch, goes to Pino.
I also do workshops and training sessions outside of universities and would welcome the opportunity to speak to groups, companies and organizations. Possible topics include entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, innovation, finance, strategy, customer acquisition and financial management for non-finance executives. Topics can be tailored for both profit and non-profit organizations.