Leading Veterinary Entrepreneurship for Social Impact

Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In Leading Veterinary Entrepreneurship for Social Impact, you will:

• Develop an understanding of the principles of entrepreneurship
• Identify opportunities to advance the frontiers of veterinary medicine
• Understand how to turn a good idea into a viable opportunity
• Explore what veterinary medicine can learn from human medicine in the context of entrepreneurship
• Learn to foster and lead entrepreneurship in your organization, whether academic, corporate, nonprofit or governmental

Experience & Impact

This program empowers participants to advance entrepreneurial ventures to solve global challenges. Faculty apply their field-based research and the latest strategic insights to help veterinarians develop the skills of an entrepreneur. Emphasizing the importance of opportunity identification, testing, and assessment; leadership that fosters a culture of entrepreneurship; and when knowing and how to foster strategic partnerships, it offers an unprecedented opportunity to bring together diverse leaders on the front lines of veterinary science and public health.

Session topics include:

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• New Global Challenges and Opportunities for Veterinarians
• Panel Discussion: Identifying Opportunities
• Developing the Opportunity: Learning Lab
• Leading a Culture that Drives Entrepreneurship
• Fostering Strategic Partnerships
• Social Entrepreneurship: Challenges of Addressing Social Problems
• Sociopolitics and Project Implementation

Through highly interactive lectures, panel discussions, exercises, and a learning lab, both in the classroom and in smaller work groups, this program will prepare you to stimulate entrepreneurship in veterinary medicine.

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Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.