Genesis Found and President Debra Schindler Boultinghouse was featured recently in “The Leader”:
Successful entrepreneurs never stop learning, says Debra Schindler-Boultinghouse, who started Genesis BCS, in the Greater Heights, almost 30 years ago. For a while, she was the only woman in the country heading a telecommunications company, so she is no stranger to evolving business practices.
She and her company had respect, experience and market share, but Schindler-Boultinghouse wanted to get back her business focus and “edge.” She sought the opportunity to immerse in the transformative business management experience of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses at Houston Community College, a partner in the program.
Her three-month experience provided an intensive retooling, she says, one that netted her “renewed energy, renewed excitement and great ideas.”
Having lost her youngest son to mitochondrial disease in 2004, Schindler-Boultinghouse’s business life had understandably shifted into a bit of a holding pattern as she grieved and started the Houston Chapter of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, including its fun-run benefiting research. (Originally called “Christopher’s Heart Fun Run,” the event evolved into the Energy for Life Walkathon.) Recently, Schindler-Boultinghouse has been tapped for a national position with UMDF’s board of trustees.
Her session with the practical small business program ran July through September 2012. In retrospect, she considers it a compressed MBA experience, complete with classroom lectures, related readings, role playing, case studies of real-though-renamed companies, collaborating and networking.