Kaizen 18 — the Francesco Clark interview
The latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with entrepreneur Francesco Clark.
The theme of the interview is Entrepreneurship and Overcoming Adversity, about which Clark is perfectly positioned to speak. At age 24 he became paralyzed from the neck down after a swimming pool accident. Some physicians thought he would never move or breathe without assistance again. But with great effort over several years, Clark made strong progress and, given his physical-therapy experiences, developed an award-winning line of skin-care products that became Clark’s Botanicals, now sold in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
I met with Clark in New York to discuss coming back from tragedy, what it takes to fight against overwhelming odds, and entrepreneurship as an option for people with disabilities and special challenges.
Also featured in this issue of Kaizen [pdf] are student essay contest winners Nicole Schnack, Jake Maliszewski, and William Newkirk, and reports on our High School Entrepreneur Day, Professor Jules Gleicher’s new course, and guest speaker Dr. Al Gini.
More Kaizen interviews with leading entrepreneurs are at my site here or CEE’s site.
The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published the tenth issue of 
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