This Community Voices column is written by Zac Strobl, the director of Northern Kentucky University’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Northern Kentucky employers frequently express concerns about how to prepare the workforce for rapid changes, new technologies, and, of course, artificial intelligence . When considering the future workforce, the solution isn’t simply to teach students […]
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LISTEN: Matching Student Passion with Business Ideas – Zac Strobl, NKU’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
This week on Mind Your Business NKY!, LINK nky CEO Lacy Starling and Business Reporter Kenton Hornbeck discuss their first jobs back in the day…and what has led to a national decrease in the ‘kids’ working today. Kenton and Lacy dive into our new print story examining the reasons why the teenage labor rate has decreased […]
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How Zac Strobl went from the baseball diamond to the incubator
Zac Strobl ended up at Northern Kentucky University on a baseball scholarship. Heading into college, he was solely focused on pitching. “That’s what I was known for,” Strobl told LINK nky. After suffering multiple tears in his pitching arm, he decided to finally hang up his cleats, realizing that his career in baseball wasn’t going […]