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Vermont Business Roundtable Acquires Nordic Educational Trust

Plans Underway to Expand Scholarship Eligibility Statewide

(South Burlington, Vt.) The Nordic Educational Trust was created in 1988 by former Roundtable member, Ross Anderson and his wife, Gail, to provide scholarship grants and other financial aid to assist deserving students from Chittenden and Grand Isle counties in pursuing technical education at two-year post-secondary institutions.  To date, the Trust has awarded over 40 need-based scholarships to Vermont students; support that is not predicated on previous academic performance, yet has in many cases provided the opportunity for life-altering educational experiences. Effective this summer, oversight and administration of the Trust and scholarship recipient selection, has been transferred to the Vermont Business Roundtable, in recognition of its long-standing focus on education as an economic development strategy. (more…)

Stritzler Op-Ed: Early Education

Improving tomorrow’s economy is possible only through smart policy investments today in our human capital – beginning with our youngest children. (more…)

Business Leaders Lend Support to Early Childhood Investments

(Manchester, VT) Tough economic times require business and government leaders to rethink public policy and not only change the ways in which we deliver public services, but to build capacity for future success. According to Bill Stritzler, Managing Partner with Smugglers’ Notch Resort, and chair of the Vermont Business Roundtable, “Investments in education should be our first economic development strategy.” (more…)

Giving Due Credit

Nobody likes to give up comfortable old habits that make us feel secure and content or that are predictable and familiar. Even when the data show that those habits are bad for us (think smoking), or unsustainable (think Defined Benefit plans) we still find it hard to give them up.  The time comes, though, when the smoker develops cancer or the treasury is empty, and that’s the moment of conversion. Real change happens only in crisis. So it is with the state’s response to the Great Recession – the crisis has finally hit and change, though difficult, is under way. (more…)

Renew, Reboot, Restart: an Interview with Doug Hall

Listen in on Lisa’s recent interview with Doug Hall, CEO & Founder of Eureka! Ranch, as he explains why today’s business leaders are being pushed to innovate or die, or as Doug terms it, “Renew, Reboot, Restart,” which requires a system. Find out if you and your team are good candidates to learn and harness such a system.

Doug Hall will be leading an intensive 3-day program entitled, Leading Through Innovation, for CEOs and senior management teams that will teach them  a proven system to accelerate innovation-growth. This Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute event will be held May 19th – 21st  at the Sheraton in Burlington. Registration is limited to 150 participants.

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Leading Through Innovation

Vermont Business Roundtable is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center’s (VMEC) Innovation Engineering Leadership Institute – a phenomenal training opportunity on Leading Through Innovation led by Doug Hall of Eureka! Ranch, and is geared toward CEOs and Senior Management.

Wednesday – Friday, May 19-21, 2010

We are assured: This is not “just another event,” but rather an opportunity to accelerate innovation driven economic development, entrepreneurship and much needed job creation in Vermont.

For more information about the conference, click here.

Roundtable Release First Qtr 2010 CEO Economic Outlook Survey

CEOs Express Optimism for Next Six Months

The chief executives of Vermont’s leading businesses appear increasingly optimistic toward all three of the survey’s metrics:  sales prospects, capital expenditures and employment levels for the spring and summer months, when compared against third quarter 2009 forecasts.    The mood was assessed near the end of the first quarter and released today by Vermont Business Roundtable Chair Bill Stritzler and President Lisa Ventriss. (more…)

EB-5 Workshop to be Held March 5th

The Roundtable has just announced it will be holding a workshop on EB-5, a unique opportunity for members of the business community to attract foreign investments, on Friday, March 5th, from 7:30 – 11:00am, at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. Cost is $40, which includes breakfast.

Presenters from state government and private industry with EB-5 application and project experience will touch on topics such as: EB-5 Overview, Immigration Law, Securities Law, Developing Analysis for Proposals, with plenty of Q & A.

For more information on EB-5, click  here.

For more event details or to register for this event, click here.

Contact Sherra Bourget with any questions at 865-0410 or sherra@vtroundtable.org

We Are Not Alone

I just returned from spending a week in snowy Minnesota, nursing my college roommate after her stroke. Over coffee each morning we read the headlines…and I found that the similarities go well beyond our respective snow levels. (more…)

Roundtable Elects New Directors for 2010

Director Leon Berthiaume Director Dave Finney Director Rob Simpson

Vermont Business Roundtable chair, Bill Stritzler, Managing Director of Smugglers’ Notch Resort, has announced the election of three Vermont CEOs to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. The new directors assumed their roles during the Roundtable’s Annual Membership meeting on January 14, 2010. (more…)

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