One of the keys I’ve found to creating a more satisfying
life is discovering my strengths and focusing on how to build on them. I came to
the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship searching for ways to contribute to the world. What I found were folks who cared
about helping me uncover my unique abilities to envision the future and then
gather the resources to go there.
More than anything else I discovered the wisdom of teams and the power involved
in tapping into other people’s strengths to bolster my own. The LCE taught me
how to take the courageous and calculated leaps that have allowed me to try new things and live a
life of passion in a world of potential. I am grateful for those who have helped
me on the path.
Biography
Eric Vines is the President of
Vines Leadership Design, a business advisory company focusing on executive leadership development for businesses, non-profits and their boards. He serves on several boards including the Association of Women Business Centers, a national organization representing over 125 business centers and 140,000 women. He has personally worked with more than 300 men and women business owners in the last 5 years helping them develop stronger leadership skills and better business practices.
Prior to creating Vines Leadership Design, Eric
spent 6 years working as the associate director of programs at the Edward Lowe
Foundation. His job responsibilities included developing services offered to
entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial support organizations that work with them.
He was one of the designers and facilitators of the PeerSpectives retreat
program as well as the PeerSpectives Roundtable System.
Before joining the Edward Lowe
Foundation, Eric was the interim director of the Lundquist Center for
Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon. He has also served as a financial
analyst for Hewlett Packard and project manager for Intel Corporation.
Eric earned his bachelor's
degree in physics and math from Whitman College and his M.B.A. at the University of
Oregon, where he focused his studies on finance and entrepreneurship.
