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Garrett Stern, CIL featured in ‘Entrepreneur Minute’

Garrett Stern (center), executive director of The Center for Innovative Leadership, at an event in 2024.

Last updated October 17, 2025
Published October 17, 2025

By Tina Underwood


Furman University’s Garrett Stern spells out the mission and offerings of The Center for Innovative Leadership (CIL) in “Entrepreneur Minute,” a program of Who’s on the Move in Greenville, SC from UpstateBizSC. Stern, executive director of the CIL, says its mission is to “develop human-centered problem solvers to build a better world.”

In a five-minute video available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple, Stern describes how the center caters to clients in the Greenville, Charlotte and Atlanta metro areas, delivering courses in leadership development, change management, innovation education, grant writing, design-thinking, brand strategy, storytelling and more.

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