How can you build a business that stays true to your values, without getting lost in the pursuit of success, scale or growth?

This is an essential question for anyone creating a new business in our culture today.

As an entrepreneur, what you create matters, and so too does why and how you build a company, each step of the way. Many traditional business frameworks focus on innovation and profit as the only guide posts — but what if there are additional markers that can help you grow with integrity?

In this workshop, we’ll explore new paradigms for business that go beyond profit and innovation alone. This session can help entrepreneurs of any stage clarify a wider perspective on thoughtfully growing a business, covering themes like how to: lead mindfully, center relationships, understand your role within an ecosystem, develop an intentional culture, and root into your purpose.

Along the way, participants will have an opportunity to identify their own values-based guideposts, what it means to practice them, and learn from the experience of their fellow entrepreneurs. By the end of the session, attendees will have a new lens on growing a sustainable business with integrity and values in practice.

New Mexico Rainforest University Center Fall Seminar Series

UNM Rainforest Innovations and the Innovation Academy are hosting their fall 2021 University Center Seminar series. The New Mexico Rainforest University Center provides entrepreneurial training and technical assistance at the University of New Mexico main and branch campuses. The seminars are free and open to the UNM community and the public via web access, but registration is required. A certificate program in entrepreneurial capabilities is available to UNM students and community members thru UNM’s Innovation Academy. If interested in the certificate program as part of the seminar series, please contact Cecilia Pacheco at cpacheco@innovations.unm.edu.

About the Speaker:

Allie Armitage believes in human potential, creativity and change. She guides forward thinkers to bring their ideas to life in a way that is aligned and emotionally aware, so they can embody the purpose they seek to create. She has trained in Emotional Intelligence, Human-Centered Design, and Conscious Leadership, integrating these frameworks with a dose of mindfulness to offer a holistic lens on personal growth.

As a facilitator, Allie has created workshops with groups such as General Assembly, the Conscious Venture Lab, Cureate, and the Laudato Si accelerator at the Vatican. She also guides individuals one-on-one as a coach. Allie has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Academy for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree and co-founded a bike sharing company weBike, her first venture after college. Later finding her passion for human development, Allie sought her own self discovery and training, uncovering tools that led her into the works she offers today.

You are welcome to reach out, or learn more about Allie’s work via – https://www.ideabirthing.co, http://alliearmitage.com, or on LinkedIn.