LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – The University of Louisville Family Business Center will host “Think Like an Entrepreneur: How to Develop Entrepreneurial Leadership within the Family Business” on March 20th from 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. (EDT) at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY. The seminar is intended to aid family business owners in understanding how the entrepreneurial leadership model can help them reach beyond the current generation.
The speakers at this event, Carl Chapman, Daniel Koester, and Van Clouse, Ph.D., will explore how successful firms ignite entrepreneurial thought and action, as well as important questions related to continuous innovation and opportunity identification within the context of established businesses. Randy Schulz, CPA and vice president at Harding, Shymanski & Company, P.S.C. will facilitate the discussion between Carl Chapman and Daniel Koester.
This seminar is FREE to family businesses who are attending a University of Louisville Family Business seminar for the first time. Please contact Christy Ragsdale at cragsdale@hsccpa.com for additional information.
Click here to register online.
If you have any questions or need assistance with registration, please contact Kathleen Hoye at (502) 852-1048 or email kathleen.hoye@louisville.edu.
About the Speakers
Carl Chapman, CEO/ Chairman of the Board/ Director, Vectren Corp
Carl L. Chapman was named president and chief executive officer of Vectren Corporation, an Indiana-based Fortune 1000 energy-holding company, in June 2010 and assumed the chairman of the board title in May 2011. He has served in various other leadership roles at the company including executive vice president and president of Vectren Enterprises, Vectren’s holding company for its non-utility subsidiaries and affiliates; including two Louisville-based companies that were sold, EnTrade Corporation and Genscape.
Daniel L. Koester
Mr. Koester founded North American Green in 1985. Within ten years of its beginning, North American Green became the leading national manufacturer of soil erosion control blankets. Through innovative thinking and management, North American Green is credited with the development and growth of the soil erosion control industry. Mr. Koester’s responsibilities in the management of the company included development of short-and long-term objectives, budgets and operating plans. Mr. Koester operated his company with the philosophy of fairness to his employees, vendors and distributors. After nearly 20 years of successful operation, The Tensar Corporation acquired North American Green in September of 2004.
Van Clouse, Ph.D., Director, Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Louisville, College of Business
Van Clouse, Ph.D., is an associate professor of management. He co-founded the integrative master of business administration program in 1993 and has been actively involved in developing and building the entrepreneurship emphasis in the College of Business. Clouse teaches opportunity discovery, new venture creation, business plan development, corporate and global strategy, bringing to the classroom more than seven years of personal experience as the manager of a multi-unit food-service company in South Carolina and Georgia and another six years as owner and president of a resort management firm. Clouse co-founded and serves as a faculty coach for the college’s business plan competition program that trains MBA teams to enter national contests. He also started the College of Business New Venture Competition, which awards prize money to the top three MBA new-business plan teams.
