Janna Groharing, Executive Director of Sterling Main Street, explained the structure and mission Main Street America. The four foundational pillars include: Design, Organization ...
CEO students are challenged with turning $1 into $100. This challenge has many components of a micro business...marketing, finance, sales, operations. The project concludes after a ...
Dallas Knack, Executive Director of the Sauk Valley Area Chamber of Commerce, hosted the CEO class on Monday. Josh Johnson, Director of WACC, Sterling City Alderman and SVACC Board ...
It's always a great day when you reconnect with CEO alumni. Former students Brooklyn Thoms, Class of 2025, and Isaiah Celestino, Class of 2015, visited a stakeholders meeting in ...
Who likes to watch videos of themselves? Probably NO ONE! Students learned from a recent speaker one of the best ways to improve public speaking skills is with peer review. West CEO ...
Thursday found West CEO students joining the Rock River Marketing weekly Thursday meeting. It was a good day to practice networking and fine tuning conversation skills. The Rock River ...
CEO East is having another great week!!! Monday - We met with Amanda Wike, Executive Director of Discover Dixon and talked statistics. Tuesday - We met with Sasha Logan, Dean of ...
Who better to talk with CEO students about public speaking than someone who does it weekly? Daniel Swihart, Senior Pastor at Open Door Community Church reviewed the mechanics of a well ...
Selmi’s Greenhouse and Family Farm was a perfect Monday morning business visit on a beautiful fall day. Leave those journals in the car…let’s enjoy the outdoors and activities, which ...
Brooklyn Thoms, CEO Class of 2025 and business owner of B Positive clothing recently presented a portion of her profits to NAMI, accepted by Maggie Wike.
Welcome to CEO East’s 2026 Mentors!!! We had our first Mentor Day today. Conversations and coffee. Introductions and a game of ‘This or That’ to get everyone moving and talking. Lots ...
Sean Sandrock, CEO Class of 2020, Friday’s West CEO speaker, highlighted some of his experiences while in the program, as well as a few college and work opportunities. Sean was a ...