Franz Speaker Series

The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation is here to provide students, faculty, and staff with educational experiences, opportunities for professional development, and everyday life resources.

Our mission is to become a resource for guiding the UP community on education, discourse, and implementation of the boundary crossing mindsets, knowledge, and skills of leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We do this through the Franz Speaker Series.

The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Speaker Series invites distinguished and celebrated voices to engage the UP community to inspire, provoke, educate, and transform our hands, hearts, and minds for the greater good of the human family.

Past Franz Center Series speakers include:

Rachael Rapinoe, Entrepreneur and Business Development, Partnerships, & Design Researcher COMN
Nathan A. Perez, Author of The 20-Minute Networking Meeting 
Kevin Bethune, Author and Founder & Chief Creative Officer dreams • design + life