Get Ready Cleveland! The Boot Camp is an intense day-long workshop for executive teams of 3-5 on the tenets of Conscious Capitalism! You will work with the staff and partners of the Conscious Venture Lab and discover new tools to take you company to deeper impact and higher profitability! At the end each company in the Boot Camp will have the chance to show a panel of local investors and judges what they've learned when they "Pitch Cleveland" for a $10,000 prize!
All boot camp particpants will become a part of the Conscious Venture Lab alumni community, giving you access to online content and invitations to special events around the country to help you grow your business. In addition the winner of the competition will also receive a series of "office hours" expert consultantions from our friends at SEA Change Cleveland!
Scot is passionate about creating scalable purpose rich cultures that empower people and organizations to access their full capacity. He is currently doing this as a mentor to entrepreneurs, non-profit board member and CEO of Fathom, a leading digital marketing and analytics firm that is a certified B-Corp.
Lynn is a partner at EPOCH Pi, an investment banking firm helping purpose-driven companies—those that exist to provide financial as well as a social returns while creating value for all stakeholders, including community, customers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders—raise capital from or sell their businesses to values-aligned partners.
Nurete Brenner is the Executive Director of the Business Unit and Director of the Socially-Conscious MBA program at Ursuline College. In the past, Dr. Brenner has taught courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership and International Business at CWRU and at the Herzliyya Interdisciplinary Center in Israel and has facilitated Arab-Jewish dialogue groups at the Center for Educational Technology in Tel Aviv.Nurete is also mother to two young boys who remind her on a daily basis of the importance of dialogue and social consciousness.
9AM: Arrival for the Boot Camp and Registration
9:15AM: Introductions and "Why are we here?"
9:30AM: Leadership for the Next Iteration of Capitalism
10:30AM: Managing for Stakeholders
11:30AM: Lunch Break
12:00PM: Defining and Understanding Culture
1:00PM: Finding and Articulating your Purpose
2:00PM: Feedback Exchange and Bringing it All Together
2:30PM: Afternoon Break
2:45PM: Crafting the Perfect Pitch
3:00PM: Pitch Preparation and Practice with Mentors
4:00PM: Pre-Pitch Audience Cocktail Hour
4:30PM: Pitch the Boot Camp begins
6:15PM: Award Ceremony and Cocktail Hour
What kind of world could we create if entrepreneurs and investors cared as much about people as they do about profit? The Conscious Venture Lab was created to answer that question and in the process transform capitalism into a force for good in society. In everything we do, we work to empower entrepreneurs to rethink the relationship between business and society so that we can create a more just, joyous and equally prosperous world. We Build Companies that MATTER!
