Local CEOs Share Tips with Teens on March 8

 

Seventeen students from the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) Ridgefield will receive business and networking advice from 5 CEOs, including:

Michele Mallardi-Gay, CEO of Limelight by Alcone

Christy Kinsman, Owner/Operator of The Angel Cooperative

Cynthia Roy, CEO Regional Hospice of Danbury

Shane Casey, CEO Casey Energy

Christopher Brown, Co-Founder and CEO of Teed & Brown

On March 8, 2018  at the Western CT State University WestSide Campus in WS Classroom 218, the CEOs will volunteer one-on-one time with middle and high-schoolers answering their questions, sharing their experience, and providing advice as they prepare to launch and run their own businesses as part of the YEA! Class of 2018.  

YEA! teaches kids ages 11 to 18 how to identify their passions, develop a business idea, write a business plan, pitch investors for funding, and obtain all the necessary components to create a fully, formed and functioning business or social movement by the end of the 30-week class.

As a non-profit organization, YEA! relies on the generosity of the community and of sponsors; people who identify with entrepreneurship and want to help pave the way for the future business leaders of tomorrow. “YEA! strengthens the community, and the community strengthens YEA!,” said Gayle Jagel, Founder and CEO of YEA!. “Our program managers and instructors seek out people in every facet of the business community to help our students’ dreams become reality.”

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Submitted by Brookfield, CT

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