SJ Barakony is a serial entrepreneur, futurist, & connector.
He lives in Ohio & is the Founder of Service Before Self Leadership: An Educational Solutions Provider.
He offers four highly customizable solutions to encourage families, individuals, faith institutions, & business owners to create & cultivate lifelong learning cultures in our homes & workplaces.
He’s been a guest on an educational podcast; been interviewed for an online small business community; is a guest blogger for Innovate NA; and has been an invited speaker five separate times for HECOA. He believes strongly in youth & social entrepreneurship: He continues to serve two chapters of the YEA program (student mentor, mock judge, ad hoc consultant ) & has co-facilitated a session of the SeaChange Accelerator program.He serves as the TDD for Cleveland & Columbus (Ohio) for the H7 Network.
He also recently became an educational advisor for Tessr.io, a startup in the exciting world of blockchain/cryptocurrencies that will be establishing a cutting edge educational foundation.
The ‘Holidays’ … … offer entrepreneurs a renewed opportunity to serve, solve, & be civil, especially in hyper-competitive industries. With this mindset, we can ask ourselves a key question: How can business owners strengthen the pillars of our civil society? Please think & then brainstorm ways to turn thoughts […]
Stages of Success [ ‘S o S’ ] = Leveraging Stages to Earn Something More: Significance Flying @ 35K ft As entrepreneurs, we’ve often heard how important it is to be successful. And, as so many of us also know, success is defined in so many different ways, through lots of different life […]
Coworking is a remarkable concept that will enable many additional citizens to pursue their callings in entrepreneurship without the pitfalls of the prior 2 eras, the blue & white collar industrial ages. No longer will the price tag, complexity, or fear of having to sign a multi-year lease, or rent to (eventually) own agreement […]
by SJ Barakony | Featured Contributor 2019 awaits. How ready are you & your business for these 13 trends? Can you believe it?! Yes, it’s true: we’re less than 2 weeks away from another New Year’s Day; so, let’s dedicate a toast to our businesses, our families, & friends! Not only that … […]
by SJ Barakony | Featured Contributor Putting Productivity ahead of Busy-ness in Business “I’m so busy!” “How are you? How’s business? Busy!” There are mild variants, yet, the theme is constant: The individual is … say it with me now …. B-u-s-y. Since when did our nation’s backbone, entrepreneurs, decide that this status […]
by SJ Barakony “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” … and …. soft skills are the breakfast of winners! Did that subtitled quote ( thank YOU to the late Peter Drucker ) catch your eye?! Good! (It was meant to do just that, dear readers.) We now dive into a deep pool … In truth, an […]
The ‘Why, Whom, How, When, & Where’ of Listening to Podcasts Podcasting is a phenomenal medium for entrepreneurs in so many ways that it stood out to me as an ideal ‘sequel’ post to last month’s focus on self-directed education. Over a decade ago, the entrepreneurial, “E” pathway in America quietly crisscrossed with […]
by SJ Barakony | Featured Contributor Why your education always should be in a ‘state of beta’ From coast to coast, and border to border, parents & students across America have been singing a familiar refrain: What’s that, you ask? Back to school season! The mompreneurs amongst us, family businesses who hire their children, and […]
by SJ Barakony | Featured Contributor How It’s Measured & Why it Matters to Entrepreneurial Success This month marks another milestone in my lifelong learning journey. What milestone, you might being asking? A: 5 ½ years. Q = how much time has passed since I attended my first ever business networking event? ( […]
