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Entrepreneurial Skills Essential for Leaders

Mike Switzer
Mike Switzer

  Most people would agree that competing in today's business world is different than it was 20 years ago. Our next guest says that companies need think in a more entrepreneurial way to survive now, and that's why her school has created a bootcamp that will help executive coaches, HR professionals and business consultants learn new tools for identifying and developing leadership with this new mindset.

Mike Switzer interviews Amy Caffee, director of recruitment & marketing at the School of Professional Studies at the College of Charleston, “Leading Teams for Impact” bootcamp.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.