Videos in this section are geared to help company founders make the difficult transition from being entrepreneurs to being leaders. In Outlook on Leadership, our president Dan Wyant shares his insights on leadership gleaned from more than three decades of managing entrepreneurial and conservation organizations. In the Second-Stage Sensei section, Dino Signore discusses a variety of challenges — from building infrastructure to scale and developing senior managers to keeping employees engaged.

In addition to these short videos, we also offer longer, more in-depth learning modules especially designed to help facilitators run CEO roundtables.

Second stage is an important inflection point for entrepreneurs, says Dino Signore, the foundation’s manager of entrepreneurial education. On the plus side, second-stagers have a proven product or service under their belts and have attracted initial customers, so survival is no longer a daily concern. Yet as they strive to gain a stronger foothold in the market and win more customers, second-stagers now face more strategic issues, such as building infrastructure to scale, honing their competitive edge and expanding into new markets.

In the articles below, Signore addresses these various challenges, with a strong emphasis on leadership.