Academies for Social Entrepreneurship: Global Solutions
Empowering Change Everywhere
Academies for Social Entrepreneurship (ASE) helps develop innovative solutions to social problems by providing training and mentoring for social entrepreneurs. ASE is the convener and catalyst, focusing on equipping entrepreneurs with the resources they need to create and sustain high-performing social enterprises
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Betsy Densmore
Managing Director
Founder/Managing Director, has a long career of providing leadership and developing leadership in others. As ASE’s Director, she has worked with over three hundred and fifty not-for-profit organizations, catalyzing tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for innovative charitable ventures. For several years, she served as an Adjunct Professor in the Social Entrepreneurship and Change Masters Program at Pepperdine University and in the Business Department of Golden West College. She also consults on programming at several other universities. Densmore is an entrepreneur herself, having founded three hospitality businesses, an insurance agency and two nonprofit organizations. She is co-owner of two restaurants. Prior to launching ASE, she lead programs for a global training and development organization, served as the Executive Director of a community foundation, ran an energy services social enterprise, and was a Manager of Consumer and Community Affairs for a Fortune 500 retailer. She is currently serving on the Boards of Innovative Housing Opportunities and the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
Janet S. Cohen
Lead Coach
Lead Social Enterprise Trainer, Consultant & Coach, has been working with not-for-profit organizations for more than 20 years. Her focus is customized training and consulting services for not-for-profit organizations seeking assistance in diversifying revenue, increasing earned income, marketing planning, and strategic planning processes. Ms. Cohen also serves in Interim Executive Director positions in organizations with an earned income focus during periods of leadership transition. Ms. Cohen was the Director of New Business Ventures at HOPE Services for 3 years, an affiliate consultant with CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in the Bay Area for 6 years, Director of Business Development Services and Sr. Consultant with the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs for 5 years, and Chief Executive Officer of Project HIRED, a not-for-profit employment service serving individuals with disabilities, for 10 years. A long time resident of the Bay Area, she has served on the Boards of numerous local and national not-for-profit organizations.
Archie L Holton
CIO
Program Leader, is an entrepreneur, actor and executive coach. After running a successful plumbing business for twenty years, he recently opened two restaurants. Building on his own entrepreneurial experiences, Holton is a business coach. With over twenty years of experience as a transformative educator, Holton has worked with thousands of people, giving them the tools they needed to create their dreams as realities. He has also created a number of record-breaking sales teams. Love (he is known as the "Love Coach") and empowerment are keys to his unique style of training.
Paul Van Berkom
Coach/ Program Instructor
Paul Van Berkom’s career demonstrates vast experience as a community leader and business manager in several different industries. In his youth, he became an Eagle Scout. He is a principal in a multimillion-dollar farm in North Dakota, with holdings of over 5 thousand acres. Meanwhile, in Southern California he developed expertise in marketing, buying, selling, creative finance, foreclosures, probates, property management as an independent real estate broker, with interest in properties in five states. He has also studied acting out of LA and has experience with film production. Most recently, he co-founded and co-manages the Santa Maria BBQ restaurant.
Since 2013, he has served as a consultant for Academies for Social Entrepreneurship, equipping UCLA students and non for profits with the resources they need to create and sustain high-performing social enterprises. He holds an International business degree from California State University Northridge and speaks a little German.
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Academies for Social Entrepreneurship
c/o Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs
23532 Calabasas Road, Suite A
Calabasas, CA 91302
Contact info@academies-se.org
T: 949-500-2381