Don't Retire from Your Life:
Explore Encore Entrepreneurship and Renew, Re-imagine and Unleash YOU

Entrepreneurship trumps ageism; as one wise 80+ year old said, "We are all of us entrepreneurs building our new lives." If you are over 50 and interested in adding life to your next 20-30 years, this highly interactive eProv Studio workshop will help you catalyze your ability to co-create and re-design your life and to shake up our world.

eProv Studio Workshop Highlights

Introduction to Entrepreneurial Thought & Action (ET&A), a dynamic methodology created by and taught daily at Babson College, the top-ranked school in entrepreneurship

Overview of the improvisation process and its power in unlocking possibilities

Identification of your most creative "Pivotal Points" in each decade of your life

Assessment and application of your unique pattern of entrepreneurial strengths as measured by the Entrepreneurial Dimensions Profile TM (EDP)

Exploration and expansion of your innate creativity through taking stock of your self, your world, and your resources

Participation in the eProv Studio "Idea Market," in which you will pitch, discuss, and advance an idea-any idea-about an unfulfilled desire

eProv Studio Workshop Outcomes

An expanded view of what's possible; a plan not for what you are going to do in an absolute and final sense, but a plan for what you are going to do next

An understanding of the difference between being goal-driven and resource-driven

A means to capture and articulate your ideas through a simple plan, prototype, or drawing

A methodology to practice learning, building and acting on your ideas

Strategies to amplify your resources by learning how to enroll others

A copy of Just Start - co-written by former Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger, Just Start presents fascinating research combined with proven practices to help you advance toward your goals

A personalized Entrepreneurial Dimensions Profile feedback report and the comprehensive EDP Development Guide to help you build on your strengths

A community-real and virtual-of eProv Players who will continue acting, learning and building together

Instructors

Cheryl Kiser is the Managing Director of The Lewis Institute at Babson College and the Executive Director of The Babson Social Innovation Lab. She is a recognized leader in corporate social responsibility and social innovation. Before coming to Babson, Cheryl was the Managing Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, where for over a decade, she managed the content and delivery of the largest annual conference in corporate citizenship, the International Corporate Citizenship Conference that drew representatives from over one-third of the Fortune 500 every year and from 24 countries around the globe.

Elizabeth Isele, Co-Founder and CEO, SeniorEntrepreneurshipWorks.org, Founder, SavvySeniorsWork.com, Senior Innovation Fellow at Babson College, and MetLife Foundation's Journalists in Aging Fellow, launched her life as an award-winning, serial, social entrepreneur after a 30+-year distinguished career as an editor and author and as a philanthropic leader - first at the Great Bay Foundation in Maine and then at The Philanthropy Roundtable in Washington, DC. Her social enterprises have galvanized cross-sector community support to solve some of today's most challenging social, economic, and environmental challenges and positively transform the lives of thousands of individuals of all ages. Elizabeth is also a contributing writer on senior entrepreneurship for Forbes.com and PBS Next Avenue.org. Her work was profiled in this Forbes' article, "Are Senior Start-Ups the Answer?"