Build – ICSB 2021

Adapting the Flow of Business to Create a More Humane World

Prestart-ups and Start-ups that have formed a company or have a product/service to sell and are now looking to professionalize their companies and seek early seed funding.

Review the fundamentals, including CBKs
Understand the entrepreneurial demand of the enterprise/organization
Build framework to more appropriately and effectively manage humane resources and leadership practices
Build a culture that expands to create greater wealth

Building an enterprise in and for the future means creating an entity that looks to do more than produce a product or implement your design. Today, we must look at enterprises as equitable and resilient structures that are create sustainable profit for the company, its customers, the community, and the ecosystem. This company must center itself in the practices of humane entrepreneurship, in order to create real and lasting patterns of change.

To be a successful and resilient organization, we must review the fundamentals which include CBKs (common body of knowledge) and then take a step further so that an enterprise can fully understand the entrepreneurial demand of their humane enterprise as well as those demands in human resource management and leadership. In working to build a culture of humane entrepreneurship, you will find your company expanding and creating greater wealth.

In the early stages of building, while finalizing teams, areas of operation, and seeking funds initially, your enterprise will demand opportunities for early clients, visibility to showcase products and services, and networking ability with other entrepreneurs and supports. Once these steps are established, you can more to growing your enterprise.

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Winslow Sargeant

Incoming Board Chair, ICSB

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Winslow Sargeant is the Senior Advisor for Globalization and Head of Capital Markets for Genaesis. In this role, he syndicates opportunities with unaffiliated third-party capital partners – both domestically and internationally – facilitating optimized valuations and deal structures. He is also incoming Chair of the Board with the International Council for Small Business (ICSB).

From 2017-2020, Dr. Sargeant served as the President-Elect and Senior Vice President for Development and ICSB Vice President for Partnerships, respectively. During his tenure, he has work to educate government and non-profit organization leaders on what is required to build sustainable ecosystems for small businesses. With ICSB, he worked with select group to nations for the establishment of the Micro-, Small and Medium-Sized (MSMEs) ratified by the United Nations General Assembly on April 6, 2017. Dr. Sargeant help organized the annual Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) forum at the United Nations, held since 2017. From 2010 to 2015, he was the Chief Counsel for Advocacy with the United States (US) Small Business Administration (SBA)Office of Advocacy. Appointed by the President of the United States (POTUS) and later confirmed by the US Senate, the Chief Counsel for Advocacy directs the office. The Chief Counsel advances the views, concerns, and interests of small business before Congress, the White House, federal agencies, federal courts, and state policy makers. Economic research, policy analyses, and small business outreach help identify issues of concern. Regional Advocates and an office in Washington, DC, support the Chief Counsel’s efforts. From 2006 to 2009, he was the managing director at Venture Investors, LLC (VI), and early stage venture capital firm, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin and $200M under management, VI invested in innovative research from leading universities in the upper Midwest. From 2001 to 2005, he was the program manager for the Small Business Innovations Research (SBIR) program Electronics topic in Industrial Innovation, a new office in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Engineering Directorate. The SBIR program invests more than $100M per year in seed and early stage technology companies.