Video Library – Outlook on Leadership

September 10, 2025

Outlook on Leadership with Courtney Lorenz

Cortney Lorenz started Cultured Kombucha Co. in 2015, introducing the first kombucha microbrewery to Michigan. In the past 10 years, she has taken the Traverse City-based company from startup stage, selling its multiflavored fermented tea at farmer’s markets, to an award-winning second-stage business that now distributes its products to more than 500 restaurants, breweries and stores. Among recent milestones, Cultured Kombucha was named a 2025 Michigan Companies to Watch honoree this spring, and the company is getting reach to launch a new line of canned kombucha.

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April 17, 2025

Outlook on Leadership with Dan Hampu

In this session of “Outlook on Leadership,” Dan Hampu, president and CEO of Burton D. Morgan Foundation, discusses his organization’s mission, the striking similarities between our respective founders, Burt Morgan and Ed Lowe — and how our two organizations are working together to serve entrepreneurs in the second-stage space.

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September 25, 2024

Outlook on Leadership with Cynthia Kay

Authenticity and transparency are important leadership skills, says Cynthia Kay, founder of CK and Co. Media Production in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “This isn’t rocket science,” she says. “It’s being who you really are in the workplace… being willing to be open and share with employees — and that means the good, the bad and the ugly.”

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June 18, 2024

Outlook on Leadership with Dan Ducote

In just six years Dan Ducote led Enginuity Global LLC from a four-person company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to an international organization with nearly 90 employees. He chalks up much of Enginuity’s success to creating a culture where people are passionate about what they are doing.

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March 20, 2024

Outlook on Leadership with Erick Stewart

“You’re never successful, you’re always succeeding,” says Erick Stewart, a Battle Creek-based serial entrepreneur who wrote his first business plan at age 26, then launched Stewart Industries and grew it into a $50 million company. Today as CEO of Lagniappe Global Commodity Partners and an Entrepreneur Emeritus at the foundation, Erick is helping other business leaders grow their organizations and themselves

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February 9, 2024

Outlook on Leadership Zach Raley

Founder of Utiliserve and Fireserve LLC in Bossier City, Louisiana, Zach Raley says one of his biggest leadership lessons has been identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to get the right people in the right places at the right time.

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May 19, 2023

Outlook on Leadership with Patti Eisenbraun

Co-owner of Brown Iron Brewhouse, Patti Eisenbraun discusses how she and her husband evolved their love for craft beer and good food into an award-winning restaurant company with two locations in Michigan — and a third in the works.

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February 20, 2023

Outlook on Leadership with Kathie Fuce-Hobohm

A self-described “accidental entrepreneur,” Kathie Fuce-Hobohm launched SPACE Inc. in 1995 and has grown the Michigan-based company into a national commercial interior design firm with a focus on sustainability. Kathie discusses some key lessons from her three decades as a business owner.

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December 8, 2022

Outlook on Leadership with Julie Metty Bennett & Rachel Kuntzsch

As co-owners of Public Sector Consultants, a nonpartisan public policy firm in Lansing, Julie Metty Bennett and Rachel Kuntzsch work with clients to solve challenges, remove obstacles and identify opportunities to move policy forward. Dan Wyant asks this dynamic duo to share what makes their partnership tick.

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August 5, 2022

Outlook on Leadership with Rob Wise of ITinspired

As CEO and co-owner of ITinspired in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rob Wise leads an innovative managed services provider that focuses on the people side of technology. Discussing his entrepreneurial journey, Rob cites passion and curiosity as key ingredients to his success.

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Outlook on Leadership with Courtney Lorenz

Outlook on Leadership with Dan Hampu

Outlook on Leadership with Cynthia Kay

Outlook on Leadership with Dan Ducote

Outlook on Leadership with Erick Stewart

Outlook on Leadership Zach Raley

Outlook on Leadership with Patti Eisenbraun

Outlook on Leadership with Kathie Fuce-Hobohm

Outlook on Leadership with Julie Metty Bennett & Rachel Kuntzsch

Outlook on Leadership with Rob Wise of ITinspired

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