Jim Flowers

Current

• Executive Director at VT KnowledgeWorks

Education

• University of Rochester
• Wesleyan University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Jim

Connections

208 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Jim Flowers’s Summary

I am now proudly approaching four decades as a senior executive and consultant to technology based companies, most recently as leader of the VT KnowledgeWorks program at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg, Virginia.

I currently volunteer regionally as a Board Member of the NewVA Corridor Technology Council, and state-wide as president of the Board of the Virginia Business Incubation Association.

Goals - I detest goals. They include permission to fail. My COMMITMENT on the other hand is this:

In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson -

To laugh often and love much:
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one's self;
To leave the world a little better,
Whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch,
Or redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived...
This is to have succeeded.

Jim Flowers’s Experience

• Executive Director

  VT KnowledgeWorks

  (Management Consulting industry)

  April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  VT KnowledgeWorks is a technology business accelerator and incubator. We encourage and support inventors, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors as they conceive, design, launch, and grow companies to financial independence.

Jim Flowers’s Education

• University of Rochester

  MBA , Marketing , 1965 — 1967

• Wesleyan University

  BA , English , 1961 — 1965

Additional Information

Jim Flowers’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Twitter

Jim Flowers’s Interests:

I brake for military bands and barbershop quartets. Mozart ain't bad, either. And Puccini, and Gershwin, and Paul Simon. Ken Wilber, Immanuel Velikovsky, and other interdisciplinary thinkers fascinate me. And I love forests.

Jim Flowers’s Groups:

Sustainable Blacksburg, NewVA Corridor Technology Council, Virginia Business Incubation Association, National Business Incubation Association

•    NewVa Corridor Technology Council (NCTC)
•    Virginia Business Incubation Association

Jim Flowers’s Honors:

Invited speaker at 2009 Technopolicy Network Conference on Science-Based Incubation

Jim Flowers’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
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• job inquiries
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