Press Room

June 26, 2013

Ice House was featured by the Kauffman Foundation at the United Nations General Assembly on June 26, 2013. Download Speech Here

May 21, 2013

In addition to offering ELI Programs, Kent State University in Ohio selected Who Owns the Ice House? Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur as the all Freshman Common Read. Read more about the program.

May 7, 2013

Gary Schoeniger talks about the mindset changes Americans need to undergo, the pivot entrepreneurs need to make in order to be successful microbusiness owners. Schoeniger is the co-founder and CEO of The Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative, (ELI) an organization dedicated to providing interactive entrepreneurship education programs for individuals and organizations worldwide. He’ll share stories on what it takes to go global. Listen here.

September 8, 2011

Washington, DC—Eyeing small business growth as one of the keys to strengthening the American economy, the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program is working hard to get more people on the path to starting their own business. The program is designed to remind aspiring entrepreneurs of the fundamental concepts of an entrepreneurial mindset and the opportunities it can provide. Dawn Halfaker, CEO of Halfaker and Associates, was recently showcased as an Ice House Entrepreneur, a combat veteran…

August 24, 2011

Before writing the foreword for Who Owns the Ice House, I wanted to better understand the eight life lessons the authors wrote about and subsequently architected an incredible entrepreneurship training program around. In particular, I scrutinized the sequence they chose to use in laying out a prescription for a self-directed life enabled by embracing an entrepreneurial mindset. Not surprising, at least not to me, was their decision to start the book with Choice. For me, exercising our…