Faculty and Staff

Participants network at a Mentorship Meetup event on the ASU Tempe campus. The Mentorship Meetup was created to help connect student entrepreneurs with local mentors. Photo by Safwat Saleem

Our expert network consists of experienced entrepreneurs, business leaders or nonprofit executives who can provide expert assistance with planned or established ventures.

Sidnee Peck, Director, Entrepreneurship Initiatives in the WP Carey School of Business, listens on as her students engage in conversation about ideas to launch a venture.

Foundations of Arts Entrepreneurship (THP352 SLN #20410) - Learn skills and knowledge for an entrepreneurial approach to art making and art management across all arts disciplines. Topics include: creativity, motivation, opportunity recognition, mission and vision, financial literacy, marketing, grant writing, business planning. Questions?

SMALLab Learning, a faculty spin-out company from Arizona State University announced a $500,000 development grant provided by Educause and the Gates Foundation, and their first customer ChicagoQuest.

Photo by Roberto Carlos Pecino Martinez

Journalism professors from around the country will learn about teaching entrepreneurship under a new fellowship program by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

There is much to be said about the world of entrepreneurship; the people, the culture, the environment, and the never-ending amount of information available to entrepreneurs. 

Cherie Blair, British barrister and author of Speaking for Myself, discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with being a woman in a male-dominated field at the We Own It Summit in June, 2011. The Summit is a gathering of leaders to explore and enhance women’s participation in high growth entrepreneurship.

I know what you’re thinking: you already have a pretty solid grasp of what sex and gender mean. But bear with me, because it’s the finer points here that make a difference with regard to entrepreneurship. I was recently asked for my thoughts on how to create a movement of women entrepreneurs in the next generation, and gender, not sex, is a key part of my argument.

Jake Pinholster, Director of the Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Design, speaks at an event at ASU Skysong. Photo by Kyle Patton

Jake Pinholster, the Director of The Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film (starting July 1), received his BFA and MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Florida in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2005, he was hired by ASU to develop curricula in media design, animation, editing and compositing as well as strengthen the graduate programs. His company, Mental Image, Inc.