Connect with SEED: Mentoring Services, Fellowships, and Student Projects

With a vast network of Stanford students and alumni, SEED is uniquely positioned to provide in-country organizations with mentors or fellows who have design, management, and entrepreneurship experience to help organizations grow their business.

SEED's OFFERINGS INCLUDE

  • Mentors to provide one on one counseling from experienced entrepreneurs and business executives to help small and medium sized firms meet and overcome their unique challenges and opportunities.
  • Fellowships to provide companies with talent to fulfill key interim operational or project roles for 3-12 months.
  • Student Teams to help organizations with short term projects or with critical design innovations for class-based projects.

FOR STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

 Become a SEED Coach* for the STANFORD - ENDEAVOR LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

Thank you for your interest, the application to become a SEED Coach for the Stanford - Endeavor Leadership Program is now closed. Additional opportunities will be posted throughout the year, so please check back frequently.

The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) and Global Innovations Program will host 60 executives from developing economies for the first-ever Stanford - Endeavor Leadership Program: Scaling Fast Growth Companies in Global Markets. This intensive one-week program relies on Stanford GSB Faculty and network to prepare Endeavor entrepreneurs to build leading companies in a competitive marketplace. SEED seeks Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Coaches to further strengthen the program.

As part of the Stanford-Endeavor Leadership Program, SEED Alumni Coaches will lead working groups through the Business Challenge, an exercise created to help executives translate the leadership program’s state-of-the-art concepts of management into useful practical applications. In the challenge, working groups of 5-7 are created to discuss current business cases as submitted by the program participants; direct competitors will be placed in separate groups so as to avoid business confidentiality issues.  Led by a SEED Coach, groups will work together on a particular case using a three-phased analysis: (1) Problem definition and clarification; (2) Root cause analysis; and (3) solution generation and action planning. Each member of the group acts as a consultant to other group members and is, in turn, a client receiving the help of others in diagnosing and solving his or her problem.

SEED Coaches will help to facilitate each working group, coaching participants through the analysis and driving productive problem solutions.

SEED Alumni Coaches are required to attend the following program components in their entirety:

  • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012—DAY 3 OF STANFORD-ENDEAVOR PROGRAM

5:15 PM Check In
5:30 PM SEED Coach Orientation
6:20 PM Assignment of Business Challenges
6:45 PM Dinner

  • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012—DAY 5 OF STANFORD-ENDEAVOR PROGRAM

9:15 AM Welcome with Professor George Foster & Gina Jorasch, SEED’s Director of Education & Dissemination
9:40 AM -12:40 PM Business Challenges Working Session
12:45 PM- 2:00 PM Working Lunch

IDEAL COACHES WILL HAVE

  • Senior-level business experience in operating roles or management consulting experience
  • Ability to coach others to facilitate decision making rather than solving a problem for them
  • Cross-cultural competency
  • Ability to attend all of the required program components (see Program Schedule above)
  • Experience working in a developing economy (desirable but not required)

* Applicants must have a degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business to be eligible.

Detailed information about the Stanford - Endeavor Leadership Program is available at https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/gipr/endeavor

Applications and more information on additional SEED Fellowships and mentoring opportunities will be posted in the fall. If you would like us to email you when the program descriptions and applications are available, please complete this form.

 

 

FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Applications to partner with a student team through the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course will be available starting in July 2012. In the meantime, please review the Partner Guidelines to determine if this is the right engagement opportunity for your organization. Applications to receive a SEED Mentor or SEED Fellow will be posted in fall 2012. If you would like us to email you when the program description and application are available, please complete this form.