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| Harold "Pent" Penton |
April 9, 2008
Harold “Pent” Penton, founder of Innovation Insights, LLC, has been tapped by LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business’ Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute to rejuvenate its Executive Education program as consulting director. This program exists to provide an immediate impact to organizations through excellent management development courses.
Innovation Insights provides consulting services, workshops and seminars to Fortune 500 companies as well as small and medium-sized companies and organizations, nonprofits and universities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, La. with a satellite office in Roswell, Ga.
Penton has served on the board of directors for the Industrial Research Institute and Plaskon Industries, LLC and has a great deal of managerial, commercial and technological expertise to contribute to the curricula of the Executive Education program, according to SEI Director Mark Weaver.
“Dr. Penton has over 28 years commercial experience, is part of a national innovation consulting organization and is a board member of the Industrial Research Institute, an international organization focused on identifying and developing innovation best practices,” Weaver said. “These experiences bring an ’end user’ model to SEI and will mean the revisions to the existing program and new programs will fully consider the end users in all program design. Pent will help set the SEI vision for executive education for the next 20 years.”
Previously, Penton served on the board of trustees of the Institute of Textile Technology and is a past member of European Industrial Research Managers Association. He is the chair of the Industrial research Institute Emeriti and an active member of the Product Development and Management Association, the Intellectual Proper Owners Association, the American Chemical Society and SCORE. Penton earned a bachelor’s from Florida State University and a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
LSU’s Executive Education program is conducted on campus for mid- and senior-level career professionals looking to enhance their knowledge, occupational value and individual worth alongside their peers. Begun in the early 1960s, the program strives to provide working men and women with a comprehensive but convenient way to advance their education in a setting conducive to personal and academic growth.
For more information about Executive Education, visit www.bus.lsu.edu/executiveeducation.
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