Shoals Shift university, community and business partners have organized pitch contests, high school coding academies, an innovation week and more. This successful initiative has transformed the region into a tech hub, attracting entrepreneurs and creating employment for the area. Strategic Doing has been used in other communities as well. Texarkana used Strategic Doing to build a beautiful, art-filled greenspace around its courthouse. Milwaukee used Strategic Doing to start the Milwaukee Water Council, an incubator for water-based businesses. Finally, Chattanooga has become one of the top tech hubs in the country because 20 years ago a Strategic Doing initiative focused on bringing technology companies to the area. The Central Wisconsin region will soon join the 300 communities that have seen success from the Strategic Doing discipline. Planning is underway to bring a Strategic Doing initiative to Central Wisconsin focused on transforming our local economy. To find out how you can get involved, please contact Prof. Kevin Neuman, head of the School of Business and Economics, at kevin.neuman@uwsp.edu.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
The School of Business and Economics Business and Society Lecture Series brings noted authors and thought leaders to campus. To learn more, please contact Prof. Elizabeth Martin at elizabeth. martin@uwsp.edu. Agency 81 is a student-run marketing agency operating under the auspices of the School of Business and Economics. For more information, contact Agency 81 Chief Marketing Officer Kit Kiefer at kit. kiefer@uwsp.edu or visit Agency81.org.
To learn more about Strategic Doing , read Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership , visit the Strategic Doing website (strategicdoing.net), or watch the recording of Liz Nilsen’s Business and Society Lecture at: tinyurl.com/ mwsh8mf2. For details on the Shoals Shift project in Alabama, visit shoalsshift.com. For information on the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership , including recordings of speaker events across Wisconsin, visit thompsoncenter. wisc.edu.
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