Professor Dr. Timothy Stearns
Dr Timothy M. Stearns is the holder of the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies and Executive Director of the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno www.lylescenter.com.
His interests are in his words: “Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities”.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you have someone like him to help you?
Timothy M. Stearns is the holder of the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies and Executive Director of the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno www.lylescenter.com.
Professor Stearns received his MBA degree in management and a doctorate in management/sociology from Indiana University. He previously was a member of the Management faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Marquette University.
He has served on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, and currently services on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Small Business Management.
Professor Stearns has co-authored a textbook on management and is the author of more than 75 research articles and presentations.
He has taught and lectured on entrepreneurship and innovation to students and executives in Thailand, Poland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Macau, Germany, and the Peoples Republic of China.
He is a co-founder of the National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization www.n2tec.org, a nonprofit located in Rapid City, South Dakota.
He currently serves as past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management www.aomonline.org having served as Chair in 2006 and 2008.
In addition, he is President of the Central Valley Business Incubator, a not for profit facility www.cvbi.org.
Professor Stearns is also co-founder of Kids Invent! www.kidsinvent.com a company that sells creative hands on learning around the world.
In 2007, Professor Stearns won the prestigious Wang Family Excellence Award given each year to 4 faculty members selected from the 23 campus wide California State System.
He is a member of the Regional Jobs Initiative Executive Committee www.fresnorji.org and the Fresno Mayor’s
Creative Economy Council www.fresnocec.org.
You can listen to him on radio on the Pulse weekly on Saturday at noon and again on Sunday at 9am on KFSR 90.7 www.kfsr.org.
And here’s the deal: if you become a Master Partner, a Licensee or a Trainer for the Business of the 21st Century you will be trained directly by him because he’ll be coming to Singapore in January or February of 2011.
You will then be able to contribute directly or indirectly to the training and educating of children as well as people in the corporate world in the 21st century skills (innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship).
Download his Curriculum Vitae here: CV Dr Timothy Stearns
Dr. Ed Sobey
Want to be trained by Dr. Ed Sobey?
Don’t you think it would be a privilege if one day you get to be trained by world class experts like Dr. Ed Sobey? He came in December 2010 and again in April 2011 to train the Master Partners, the Licensees as well as their Trainers. Well he’ll be coming to Singapore again in September 2011 and make the wish of some more people come true.
That is not to say that he is has not been to Singapore before. In fact he was invited by Educare Co-operative Limited, A Co-operative of the Singapore Teachers’ Union to conduct three workshops/seminars from 12th to 15th July, 2010. They were Ingenuity: Design, Build, Test, Learn; Teaching 21st Century Skills in Science; and Green Energy Science Activities: Wind, Solar and Electric.
Who is Dr. Ed Sobey anyway? He is the founder of the Kids Invent Toy Program and the National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States.
In 2009, the National Inventors Hall of Fame moved from Akron, Ohio to the United States Patent and Trademark campus in Alexandria, Virginia and became part of the USPTO Museum. The new venue features interactive exhibits, a high definition video theatre and a portrait gallery. In the gallery historical and living figures come to life and talk about the history of invention and the USPTO. There is also a gift shop. Source: http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/opa/museum.jsp
He is also an internationally acclaimed author, and listed in Who’s Who in America.
He is a highly successful entrepreneur and sought after educator by organisations all over the world.
He is also the President and CEO of Northwest Invention Center and The Asian Institute of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. He is also a Board Member of By Kids For Kids, USA.
Dr Sobey has developed and hosted kids television program on inventing – The Idea Factory.
US Senator Tom Sawyer once said: “I highly recommend this article to my colleagues and the nation. Dr. Sobey is right. It is not too late to cultivate the Edisons, the Bells, the Carvers, and Marconis of tomorrow, if we work with our children today.” -The United States House of Representatives April 3, 1990. (Article: Cultivating the Inventors of Tomorrow)
Dr. Ed Sobey has a mission. He wants to coach aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to duplicate his success in Singapore and all over Asia, namely, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Taiwan.
Besides in the US, Dr Sobey has Franchise Partners in Canada, Hawaii, India, Australia, Nigeria…
Well, if you become a Master Partner, a Licensee or a Trainer for the Business of the 21st Century you will be trained directly by him. You will then be able to contribute directly or indirectly to the training and educating of children as well as people in the corporate world in the 21st century skills (innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship).
Source: Dr. Ed Sobey
