Speaker: Jim Vahle Consultant, Speaker and Teacher

Event Description:

Presented at the Roundtable meeting on 1-29-2007.  Over some 16 years, Jim Vahle has consistently been our most popular speaker.  A leading consultant, teacher and all-round commentator on things entrepreneurial, Jim returns to the Entrepreneurial Roundtable (after two years) with an up-date on a topic that always packs the house:  how to find opportunities to start (or grow) your own business.

An hour with Jim will give you a multitude of ways to seek out and evaluate profitable business opportunities.  In his straightforward manner, Jim will show you not only where to look for ideas for a new business but how to look. 

You will discover that many of the greatest ideas for new businesses – or expanding existing businesses – are in plain sight.  It just took someone with a special insight to identify the opportunity and then develop it into a viable business.

A GSB alum, Jim Vahle provides consulting serves to both Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial businesses.  For many years, he taught courses on Entrepreneurship at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and is a popular professional speaker.  Over the past two years, Jim has been playing a new role as well:  being a granddad.