Russell Seagle
MBA
NC, US
Russ Seagle is the CEO of The Sequoyah Fund, Inc., a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) based in Western North Carolina providing start-up and expansion capital, training, and consulting to small businesses. The organization also certifies educators and trainers worldwide in the REAL Entrepreneurship® curriculum, an experiential-based program used in schools and community-based organizations in 43 states and 12 countries.
Russ turned around his first company in the mid-1990s, and he rescued an organization from a near-death experience through process improvements, entrepreneurial thinking, and a thorough crisis management plan he had devised for just such an incident.
Russ has been a professional speaker and trainer for over twenty years, and he speaks regularly at conferences and other events on entrepreneurship, open-book management, building strong small businesses through an entrepreneurial mindset, the entrepreneurial lifestyle, and using entrepreneurial thinking to overcome adversity.
Russ Seagle is the CEO of The Sequoyah Fund, Inc., a Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) based in Western North Carolina providing start-up and expansion capital, training, and consulting to small businesses. The organization also certifies educators and trainers worldwide in the REAL Entrepreneurship® curriculum, an experiential-based program used in schools and community-based organizations in 43 states and 12 countries.
Russ turned around his first company in the mid-1990s, and he rescued an organization from a near-death experience through process improvements, entrepreneurial thinking, and a thorough crisis management plan he had devised for just such an incident.
Russ has been a professional speaker and trainer for over twenty years, and he speaks regularly at conferences and other events on entrepreneurship, open-book management, building strong small businesses through an entrepreneurial mindset, the entrepreneurial lifestyle, and using entrepreneurial thinking to overcome adversity.
Newton's Law of Entrepreneurship
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Guiding Your Organization through Crisis
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Kick-Start Your Competitiveness By Becoming a Start-Up
If you're losing out to competitors, if employees are leaving or losing their edge, or if your profits aren't where they should be, it may be time to shed your current culture and become a start-up again.
Using experiential activities and humorous stories and examples, I can help...
The Power of Open-Book Management
I've experienced first-hand the power of open-book management, and I've helped dozens of companies and nonprofit...
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