New leadership training for executives featured in News Center
News Center Maine featured a new accelerated, four-month leadership development program for business and nonprofit executives called Build a Better Maine, offered by the Maine School and University of Maine Graduate School of Business. “I think this is working tremendously well,” said Bruce Hall, a participant in the program and director of agroecology for Wyman’s of Maine. The program is designed to provide leaders with the skills needed to solve the most pressing global and local challenges, and to strengthen Maine’s economy and workforce. “I think that this is just the beginning of a way that the University of Maine and Maine Business School can go about enhancing the incredible work and knowledge that is being produced here and connecting with the business community to advance Maine, the region and the nation’s goal of training the workforce of tomorrow,” said Jason Harkins, executive dean of the Maine Business School.