Penn State Hazelton - Speak Your Business

Attention students! Word on the street is that you are quite the smooth-talker in your CAS100 speech class. So, now is your chance to apply your spiffy knowledge to entrepreneurship. In this fun-filled workshop, you will define informative, persuasive, and entertainment speeches. Then, you’ll move right along to strategize the content needed to create multiple types of public speeches for an entrepreneur’s product or service. You’d better start crankin’ up your brain juices so you’re ready!

 

Ellen Raineri

Penn State Hazleton

Assistant Teaching Professor of Business
Ellen earned her Ph.D. in Organization and Management. She earned her M.B.A. in Information Systems and was awarded the sole medal for Excellence in Business. Ellen also earned a graduate certificate in Information Assurance and Security. Additionally, she earned a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in English and Education.  

Ellen has entrepreneurship experience from 3 small businesses --- working as a strategic planner/management consultant, an author of a book on business and spirituality, and now a broker/owner of a commercial real estate firm. Ellen has also worked in corporate for over 15 years in leadership roles. She has led corporate initiatives for new technology products, new technology services, and new company divisions.  

Ellen has over 12 years of teaching experience and has taught entrepreneurship courses for 10 years. She is currently a full-time faculty member at Penn State Hazleton and the Penn State World Campus. Ellen has attended the Experiential Classroom Clinic/Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Education Professions and won the Teaching Excellence Award.

Ellen has conducted a workshop at the national US Association for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) conference. Last, she has researched entrepreneurship in her dissertation and has been published in several journals.

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