Founders in Focus Summit

Join us at the Eden Prairie Schools Valley View Campus for the Founders in Focus Summit on May 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM (Central Time).

Join us - invest in yourself to:

• Experience a high-energy summit for new founders, growing business owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs ready to level up.
• Hear wisdom from five powerful speakers as they share practical tools for success.
• Learn about Mindset, Connection, Direction, Belief, Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
• Come ready to be inspired, challenged, and ready to implement your next bold step forward.

Info: Registration Coffee, and treats

Info: Welcoming to the event, explain what's happening today and meet your Subject Matter Experts (SME's)

Info: Wannapreneur to Entrepreneur: Mastering the Mindset Shift

Are you working hard but feeling stuck—or ready to think and act like the entrepreneur you’re meant to be?

In this opening mini‑seminar, Norm explores the mindset differences between an employee, an entrepreneur, and an intrapreneur, and helps you discover where you truly are in your journey.

Through practical insights and self‑reflection, you’ll gain clarity about how you think, why it matters, and what steps will move you closer to your vision.

This session sets the tone for the entire Entrepreneur Summit—shaping how you approach Connection, Direction, Belief, and Promotion throughout the day.

Step into your entrepreneurial identity and get ready to turn possibility into momentum.

Info: The word "networking" is starting to go out of style, because it sounds like a transaction. Plus it sounds like work. It IS work, compared with sitting at home on the couch eating bonbons and watching Rockford Files (or your favorite tv show) . But even the RIGHT "workplace" can be fun.

Consider LIFE, or the WORLD, to BE your "workplace" when it comes to connecting for business-building.

Lili will teach you three habits to get good at, to get, and stay, ready for engaging with the world- for connecting.

She will also teach you the three step process to make sense of relationship-building/connecting.

You will take part in an activity or two, to make sure you get a chance to connect with others around you ;-)

Info: We will provide a full lunch (please provide dietary restrictions i n the notes) Eat, Network, relax Its your time.

Info: Teresa Heupel is an ordained minister, speaker, and creator of Steady by Design™, helping people stay grounded in a reactive world. In her talk, What You Believe, You’ll Receive, she speaks to those who appear functional on the outside but feel fractured within—revealing how beliefs shape our lived experience and how inner steadiness changes everything. The experience includes audience participation in her original song, What You Believe, You’ll Receive, bringing the message to life in a powerful, embodied way.

Info: Jeff Griffith of Jeff Griffith Creative is an award-winning Creative Director of advertising, design and branding located in Eden Prairie. His career spans stints in regional, national and global ad agencies in Honolulu, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Winston-Salem, NC, and 26 years in New York City.

He will Speak on the importance of your brand in opening doors, building businesses and careers. He will share his experiences and knowlege to help you get your company and yourself in front of your target market..

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Eden Prairie Schools Valley View Campus, 11840 Valley View Road, Eden Prairie, United States

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