StreetSmart Entrepreneuring

Concept
My name is Frank Zenie.  With 25 years as an entrepreneurial CEO, followed by 10
years as an entrepreneurial coach, I have a lot of experience and insights to share
with future entrepreneurs - and I mean
real-world entrepreneurship - at least my
version.  How do I propose doing this?  I have just completed a draft manuscript of my
new book,
StreetSmart Entrepreneuring, highlighting the key lessons from my
operating and coaching career.  This project forces me to organize and articulate my
key beliefs.  It also provides a rich source of material for seminars and workshops.  
When I taught entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School during 1999 through 2001, I
found that my perspective worked best for:

  1. Graduate students, either business or engineering
  2. MIT’s executive education participants
  3. Working entrepreneurs coping with uncertainty and new challenges.

Most recently, I have effectively coached a number of entrepreneurial CEOs in a wide-
range of businesses.

This draft manuscript is a work in progress and I plan to complete the book only after
a year or more of teaching and consulting.  I find that interacting with entrepreneurs
and advising them about their challenges helps me identify and clarify content for my
book.

I am offering my help to universities and non-profits at no cost – I will charge
a consulting fee to tailor my message to private companies.  To minimize my travel
expenses, I’ll focus on the speaking engagements in the southeast during winter and
spring and the northeast during the summer and fall.  

I see a range of possible speaking formats.  Clearly, I could lead an interactive
seminar, from one to four hours in length, around an entrepreneurial overview or,
highly focused on a few critical topics.  Even more exciting would be a one or two day
workshop combining presentation, interactive Q&A and individual conferences with
entrepreneurs or student projects.  I’d prefer to spend a longer timeframe to leverage
my travel time and expense.

Please contact me for further information or to explore ways I can contribute to your
entrepreneurial initiatives.

Frank Zenie - frank@zeniegroup.com
The
Zenie
Group