Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur on Sustainable Business Podcast

Dec 2, 2016 10:00 AM ET

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y., December 2, 2016 /3BL Media/ - The Sustainable Business Fridays podcast continues this week featuring a conversation with Adam Kearney, Founder and CEO of Propsboard, a peer recognition start-up that uses office TVs to amplify company’s superstars. Bard MBA student, Martin Freeman discusses Kearney’s successes and failures and gets his advice on becoming a serial entrepreneur. This podcast is now LIVE on the Bard MBA Sustainable Business Fridays channel, available for Apple and Android devices.

Prior to founding Propsboard, Kearney was the CEO of Connectome, now acquired, a music intelligence company that specialized in search, discovery, and recommendations. He also co-founded Philly Startup Leaders, a flagship program featuring a fully integrated Startup Bootcamp and Accelerator that helps up-and-coming entrepreneurs with strategy, vision, and execution. Kearney passes along the lessons learned in this podcast to Freeman and listeners saying, “You have to be comfortable with failure, the unknown, and be relentless” to success as a serial entrepreneur.

Up next this season on Sustainable Business Fridays:

  • 12/16: Wendy Gordon, Co-Founder and CEO at PIPs Rewards
  • 1/6: Sam Polk, Author, Co-Founder, and CEO at Groceryships and Everytable
  • 1/20: Danielle Vogel, Owner of Glen’s Garden Market

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS FRIDAYS PODCAST

The Bard MBA in Sustainability program hosts the Sustainable Business Fridays podcast twice monthly. The first of its kind, this podcast brings together Bard MBA students with leaders in business, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for discussions on industry trends. These conversations, approximately 30 minutes long, go live on the first and third Friday of each month and are available for Apple and Android devices. All podcasts are transcribed and posted on GreenBiz’s The Sustainable MBA blog on the day the podcast drops.

Past featured guests have included top sustainability leaders from Unilever, HSBC, GM, Campbell’s Soup, PepsiCO, Green Mountain Energy, and many more. All past conversations can be downloaded as podcasts.

BARD MBA in SUSTAINABILITY:

The Bard MBA in Sustainability is one of a select few graduate programs globally that fully integrates sustainability into a core business curriculum. In the Bard MBA, every class is organized around one critical question: How can we build or transform our businesses so that they are in business to solve the pressing social and environmental problems of our time? Graduates of the Bard MBA are transforming existing companies, starting their own, and pioneering a new paradigm of doing business that meets human needs, protects and restores the Earth's systems, and treats all stakeholders with justice and respect. To learn more, visit www.bard.edu/mba.

Contact:
Emily Schuit
eschuit@bard.edu