Spend your Wednesday evenings at the Bard Center

We have many great events coming up. I hope that you will be able to join us.

First, we will be hosting a special session on November 12 (Save the Date!) on the Search for Great Leadership: The Nexus between Personal and Professional Leadership. This session, taught by father & son team, Bob & Gregg Vanourek, might just change your life. 

We are also hosting a three session series on Website Design that will help you optimize & monetize your website. This seminar series is free and open to the public. These sessions will be taught by Dawn Gregg and Jeff Calderone.

YOUR WEBSITE IS YOUR IMAGE - In this session you will learn how internet users evaluate websites for cues that produce trust and a willingness to transact with potentially unknown e-business partners. You will learn the ways of creating strong and trustworthy electronic persona for e-business.
Presenter: Dawn Gregg
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Bard Center for Entrepreneurship 535 16th Street, Suite 300, Denver
Fee: Free!
To register: Please call Beth at (303) 620-4050 or email bard.center@ucdenver.edu

Dawn Gregg is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver’s Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University. Dr. Gregg is also a Co-Founder of Developing Minds Software and the first place winner of the Bard Center’s 7th Annual Business Plan Competition.

WEB STRATEGY – Comprehensive web strategies can drive traffic to your site, measure online campaign results, and help you to obtain a significant return on investment as quickly as possible. In this session you will see examples of user-friendly websites that clearly communicate your company’s brand and vision and compel potential customers and other site visitors to take notice. You will learn about affordable search engine optimization and pay-per-click strategies that increase your web traffic, convert website visitors to actual customers, and increase your revenue.
Presenter: Jeff Calderone
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Bard Center for Entrepreneurship 535 16th Street, Suite 300, Denver
Fee: Free!
To register: Please call Beth at (303) 620-4050 or email bard.center@ucdenver.edu

Jeff Calderone is the Founder of Elevated Third. Elevated Third develops integrated, end-to-end web strategies and refreshing designs that bring real results. Jeff received his MBA from the University of Colorado Denver and his Certificate in Entrepreneurial Studies from the Bard Center. Jeff started his business in the Bard Center Incubator, growing it from two to eight employees.

THE SEARCH FOR GREAT LEADERSHIP: The Nexus between Personal and Professional Leadership - Forget everything you know about leadership. Conventional wisdom and media hype have conspired to have us look for leaders in all the wrong places. Father and son leaders and authors, Bob and Gregg Vanourek, debunk traditional models in this dynamic presentation on the search for great leadership. Consider how leadership begins with leading our own lives—and how it must incorporate shared values and the ebb and flow of shared leadership among a team of committed, motivated, and aligned individuals.
Presenters: Bob & Gregg Vanourek
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. (networking from 5:30 to 6:00)
Location: Bard Center for Entrepreneurship 535 16th Street, Suite 300, Denver
Fee: $10.00 Pre-registration required on or before November 10th or $20 after specified date
To register: Please call Beth at (303) 620-4050 or email bard.center@ucdenver.edu or complete a pre-registration form and return via email or fax (303) 217-8064

Discussion Topics:
• Infusing our lives and work with the entrepreneurial spirit and mindset
• Stories and strategies from successful entrepreneurial leaders worldwide
• The myth of the heroic leader—and how the most effective leadership is “plural”
• Why the real “leader” is a culture of shared values
• Systematically and collaboratively aligning your organization
• Creating a culture of high performance
Bob Vanourek is a leadership instructor at various universities and retired CEO of global corporations. Bob’s business career was focused on leading companies or divisions through turnaround and crisis situations. He is Trustee Emeritus of the Vail Leadership Institute and a Board member of the Center for Corporate Excellence and Vail Symposium. From 1995 to 1999, Bob led Sensormatic, a $1 billion NYSE company, as its CEO through a successful turnaround. This followed a similar successful turnaround Bob led as CEO of Recognition Equipment Inc., a $250 million NYSE company. Previously, Bob was Group VP and Division President of two major divisions of Pitney Bowes and VP, General Manager of two divisions of Avery International. Previously, Bob was involved in several entrepreneurial ventures. Bob is a Baker Scholar (top 5%) graduate of the Harvard Business School and a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton in economics.
Gregg Vanourek is a Founding Partner of New Mountain Ventures, a national leadership development company, and is co-author of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Previously, Gregg founded and ran Vanourek Consulting Solutions, served as SVP of School Development for K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN), VP for Programs at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute. Gregg has co-authored a book on charter schools, several national research reports and book chapters, and dozens of articles. He also co-authors regular columns and blogs for Harvard Business Online, Inc.com, and The Washington Times. Gregg holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College.