Last week, CEO East visited All Good Things, a lavender farm in Amboy owned by Kelly Foster. She took us through her plan to retire early from teaching and start her lavender business. ...
Woodlawn Arts Academy is celebrating 20 years! West CEO students learned about the Academy's growth to the many programs offered today, from 42 registrants the first year to 4900 in ...
CEO East had the perfect morning at Grand Prairie Farms with hosts Katie and Andy Pratt. We started the morning with Katie telling her story and sharing her rules in life and in ...
Bailey Russell, Global Product Marketing Specialist and also former CEO student (2015), spoke to the class on Wednesday sharing her knowledge of product branding. Besides the ...
Look at those petunias behind the group picture?!?!? They are BEAUTIFUL and a main part of CEO East’s conversation today. We met with three wonderful leaders in the area - Robin ...
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 ...