72392 event 1320317735 1475891792 <![CDATA[IMPACT Speaker Series presents Carl Nordgren: "The Creative Populist Revolution"]]> On Wednesday, November 16, the fall IMPACT Speaker Series continues with a talk by Carl Nordgren. Mr. Nordgren is the founder of creativepopulist, an organization that promotes the importance of all people being “creatively entrepreneurial.” In this talk, cosponsored by HUB Atlanta, Mr. Nordgren will share his insights on the topic of “The Creative Populist Revolution.”

Please join us for this event in the LeCraw Auditorium, College of Management, or watch the live webcast provided by our partners at Learn it Live.

 

More about the speaker:

Carl Nordgren is a creative populist.

Throughout his career, he has been an entrepreneur, helping found two pioneering cellular telephone companies, two innovative marketing services firms, a semiconductor company, a software venture, a sport magazine publisher, and a new business incubator.

He recently launched two new ventures—Minogi serves creatively entrepreneurial college students, and CreativthePopulist promotes the importance of each of us and all of us being creatively entrepreneurial. Carl has also recently started a new consulting practice, YourVeryBestStory.com, which claims the transformative power of Story as a CEO leadership tool.

In addition to launching his own entrepreneurial ventures, he has helped many young start-up companies and entrepreneurs through mentoring and acting as interim CEO.

During his career, he has worked in four of the Creative Industries, and for ten years has been teaching courses in Creative Entrepreneurship at Duke University. His first job was as a fishing guide in Ontario, he has written a series of novels about his experience there.

 

About the Impact Speaker Series

Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership".

The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.

 

The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.

]]> Carl Nordgren, an experienced entrepreneur, will speak to students, faculty, staff and community members during the next session of the IMPACT Speaker Series. Nordgren has extensive entrepreneurial experience across sectors and industries and he will share his insights with the audience.

]]> Dori Pap

Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship

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