Discover how to transform your high school students into entrepreneurial thinkers and watch your community thrive. 

What Is CEO?

Over the past 15 years, the CEO Program has helped communities all over the United States invest in thousands of young people and make radical impacts on their communities.  It takes a community to raise an entrepreneur and the future workforce. CEO is a proven model that yield results. 

11 States

Over 4,800 Graduates

74 Programs

Why We Do It

Future Influence

Your young people will

transform into entrepreneurial thinkers, become your future problem solvers, emerge as future business & thought leaders, develop an ownership mindset, and build a foundation for future success.

CEO As A Whole

The CEO Program is a revolutionary concept in entrepreneurship education, a community-driven model that brings schools and business leaders together to transform high school students into the community’s business and thought leaders of tomorrow. 

Community Impact

Your community will

empower its next-generation, bring businesses and schools together, develop its future workforce, build more businesses and experience ongoing economic development.

Ongoing Support

You Are Not Alone. We’ve seen communities across the country deal with a lack of workforce, brain drain, and uninvested youth. Our Midland Institute for Entrepreneurship team is here to guide you as you empower your high school students with real-world learning experiences that transform them while sparking your entrepreneurial ecosystem. CEO will help develop your future workforce and business leaders.

Our mission is to partner with community stakeholders from all walks of life to help them come together to launch the proven CEO model and operate it successfully for years to come. Our proven guidance, processes, tools, technology, and training will help you maximize the impact you create while saving you time, trouble and money. 

What CEO Community Stakeholders Say

“This is my 33rd year in education, and I have said this from the start of this program- the CEO program that I believe we’re doing here in Southwest Minnesota is by far the best educational initiative that I’ve ever been associated with in education for 33 years.”

- Craig Oftedahl, Superintendent  & Southwest Minnesota CEO Board Member 

“Those high schoolers, that’s the linchpin of your economic success 5-10 years from now.” 

- David Zak, President & CEO of Tiffin-Seneca Economic Partnership & Seneca County OH CEO Board Member 

“Our future is tied to innovation. Our future is tied to entrepreneurship. If you want your community to be vibrant and available and an attractive option for tomorrow’s young professionally...they are going to expect you to be promoting a culture of entrepreneurship.” 

- John Joseph IV, Executive Director, The E-Center & Decatur-Morgan AL CEO Board Member

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Is CEO The Right Fit For Your Community?

Submit this form to receive detailed information that will help you determine if CEO is the right fit for your community, the potential benefits it could bring to your students and businesses, and what it would take to launch this transformational experience in your community.