EntreCon 2017: Leadership insights


  • November 15, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   entrecon,training-development
Day Two of EntreCon Pensacola kicked off with a lot of talk about what it means to be a leader.

EntreCon 2017: Build, Grow, Lead, Develop


  • November 14, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   entrecon,training-development
EntreCon 2017 kicked off Nov. 14 with speakers who preached the power of employee engagement to strengthen and sustain a business — and cautionary tales about how its absence can leave a workplace DOA.

EntreCon 2017 Venue Map


  • November 13, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development,entrecon

LENA uses power of words to build babies’ brains


  • November 13, 2017
  • /   Reggie Dogan
  • /   education
Parents Have the Power! That’s what LENA Start reminds parents at the end of each session of the 13-week program designed to increase adult talk with children and conversational turns.

EntreCon Award winners for 2017


  • November 12, 2017
  • /    Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development,entrecon
The second annual EntreCon Awards are a high point of the annual business and leadership development conference hosted by Studer Community Institute.

Give Back Award honors those who go above and beyond to support the community


  • November 10, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development,entrecon
A healthy, vibrant community is built one child, one life, one business, one investment at a time. The Studer Community Institute is honoring that spirit with the Give Back Award, a new feature of the Studer Community Institute’s EntreCon.

EntreCon 2017 offers skill-building for leaders, employees


  • November 8, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   training-development,entrecon
There is something in EntreCon for you and your business or nonprofit.

Quint column: Don’t throw co-workers under the bus


  • November 8, 2017
  • /   Quint Studer
  • /   training-development,quint-studer
How do you solve a customer issue without making the employee look bad?

Cubed artists can take inspiration from Early Learning City


  • November 6, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
Who knew public art could be part of an Early Learning City?

Nurses say Brain Bags a good tool for parent education


  • November 3, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
Since is the Brain Bag project launched this spring, some 2,600 parents have received the early literacy gift bags through one of the three major birthing hospitals in Escambia County.