Ennis T. Henderson
Innovation
SCHOLAR
My Big Question / Opportunity Statement is:
Many people feel powerless to change their economic circumstances.
Think/Explore
Beginning in the 1970’s and 80’s, I began to notice that virtually all of my neighbors either worked for someone else, or was seeking a job working for someone else. Most of them had bought into the idea that they were powerless to change their own economic circumstances...
Learn
As an entrepreneur for the past 25 years, I have personally experienced the challenges that business owners and operators face on a daily basis. One of many things I’ve learned over the years is that you must have a relatively high degree of proficiency in managing a business by it's ...
Do/Create/Impact
As a participant in the University of Utah’s Innovation Scholar, and Undergraduate Research Programs during the summer and fall semesters of 2013, I identified the economically powerless segments of the U.S. population. The objective of my research was to identify the effected parties, the obstacles that prevent them from...
Reflect
On a weekly basis, each member of the Innovation Scholar Program was challenged to write at least 500 words on a wide variety of topics. The randomness of these topics forced us to step outside of our comfort zones to fire up those unexplored recesses of our minds. Writing about a variety of unrelated topics has helped me ...
