Founder Talk: Real-World Lessons to Prepare Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs
Complimentary for NBEA Members; Non-members $49
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Your classrooms are filled with future entrepreneurs: doctors who will run their own practices, artists and filmmakers navigating the gig economy, vibe coders using the latest AI tools, and students preparing to lead family businesses. No matter where their careers take them, they'll benefit from an entrepreneurial mindset.
Join startup founder Steve Southwick for a conversation that goes beyond entrepreneurial success stories to explore how educators can cultivate the skills, mindsets, and confidence students need to create opportunities, solve problems, and adapt in a changing economy. Drawing from his own journey as a venture capital investor and entrepreneur, Steve will share real-world lessons that business teachers can translate into meaningful classroom discussions and activities.
Participants will leave with practical strategies for bringing entrepreneurship to life in their classrooms, along with a free, ready-to-use business plan lesson that helps students transform an idea into an actionable business concept.
Through this discussion, attendees will:
- Identify the entrepreneurial mindsets and durable skills that prepare students for success.
- Examine real-world startup experiences and determine how they can be integrated into business education.
- Apply instructional strategies and a ready-to-use entrepreneurship lesson to foster entrepreneurial thinking in the classroom.
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Steve Southwick: Steve founded Pointful Education, an innovative CTE curriculum provider, now Savvas CTE. Currently the Director of CTE Product Management, Savvas Learning Company, Steve leads the development of programs designed to engage and prepare secondary students for post-high school success. He has also served as an online instructor, teaching university-level entrepreneurship courses. Before launching Pointful Education, Steve spent a decade in the investment industry, focusing on education companies.
Geoffrey Howard: Geoff is the College and Career Readiness Director with Savvas Learning Company. Geoff serves school districts and communities by helping them identify teaching and learning resources that promote access to opportunities for students while they are still in high school, for the future of their choosing, not simply by dreaming about it but actively building it. Geoff is a former social studies educator serving in the central office and classrooms across the Washington, DC area.