[198] Entrepreneurship Expert Shares Advice With Florida Businesses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 10, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERT SHARES ADVICE WITH FLORIDA BUSINESSES
MTSU’s Doug Tatum Takes Real-World Experience and Academic Know-How to Orlando

(MURFREESBORO) – Doug Tatum, associate professor in the MTSU Department of Business Communication and Entrepreneurship, will conduct a workshop titled “Navigate Your Company’s Future” at noon Thursday, Nov. 18, at The B.I.G. Summit at The Peabody in Orlando, Fla.
Tatum, holder of the Wright Travel Chair in Entrepreneurship, is a recognized expert on the capital markets and entrepreneurial growth businesses. He has testified before Congress concerning financing issues faced by growing companies and tax policy.
The author of No Man’s Land: What to do when your company is too big to be small and too small to be big, Tatum was Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC for more than 17 years, growing the company to the largest executive services consulting firm in the United States with more than 1,000 employees and professionals in 30 offices. He later served on the firm’s board and as Chairman Emeritus until the company merged with Spherion Corporation in early 2010.
The B.I.G. (Business, Innovation and Growth) Summit is sponsored by Tony Jenkins, market president for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida, and Gary J. Earl, President/CEO of Workforce Central Florida. They tout the gathering as an opportunity “to better understand expectations, buying decisions and quirks about how messages are communicated.”
For more information about the summit, go to www.orlando.org. To talk to Tatum about entrepreneurship in today’s economy, contact him at 615-898-2785 or dtatum@mtsu.edu.


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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.