Speakers

Molly Lavik has dedicated her career toward helping socially-responsible, idea-phase entrepreneurs find their true potential and authentic purpose. Molly’s mantra and mission is to facilitate entrepreneurs access to $uccess. She has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs over the past fifteen years to help them transform their new venture visions into reality. Molly developed a method for coaching startups that she uses to impart knowledge known as Mentorographies. Mentorographies are success stories and lessons learned from famous founders that reveal valuable insights in a manner that enables the recipient to essentially “stand on the shoulders” of successful entrepreneurs. Mentorographies are a type of virtual mentoring experience that exist as textbooks, panels, workshops, audio blogs, webisodes and through coaching sessions. Molly has chronicled the true-life stories of famous founders in textbooks for the Mentorographies she utilizes including:
•    Paul Orfalea, founder, Kinko’s, Inc.
•    Dame Anita Roddick, Founder, The Body Shop
•    Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
The X Prize Foundation awarded the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE to Scaled Composites for their craft SpaceShipOne.

Molly’s latest series of Mentorographies are for her corporation’s project Green Rush and are focused on sharing the insights of ecopreneurs. Details on Project Green Rush: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/communication/Newsletter/Fall2008/greenrush.html
View the first six video installments of the Green Rush MicroDoc at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeyR8-AVUPk

Currently, Molly is the founder and CEO of Mentorography, Inc. and through her company is the program director for the Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles. She is also a professor for the Vatel International Business School, Los Angeles and an adjunct professor for Alliant International University’s Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. She previously was a practitioner faculty of marketing for Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management teaching MBA students business plan writing and other entrepreneurship-related courses. Molly is bi-coastal with homes in New York and California. She welcomes hearing about your StartupTime and invites you to send her an e-mail at Molly.Lavik@StartupTime.com and to become her friend on Facebook and on LinkedIn and to follow her on Twitter @StartupTime.