Christine Ricci and Leo Morton on Connecting Schools and Industry

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Christine Ricci and Leo Morton, two business leaders from Kansas City who recently met with Tom at a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored real-world learning event. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the last five years, Christine served as CEO of Phone Medic, also known as</span> <a href= "https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=u+break+i+fix&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">UbreakIfix</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, an electronics repair chain. She has had twenty years of executive leadership in healthcare and tech with companies like HCA, Cerner, Sprint and more. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leo Morton is a private equity investor and President of</span> <a href= "https://www.debruce.net"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DeBruce Companies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a family office managing a diverse investment portfolio. He started his career as an AT&T engineer and has had numerous executive roles in manufacturing and energy. He also served as the Chancellor of the University of Missouri Kansas City for nearly a decade. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s listen in as they talk about connecting school to industry, where entrepreneurship comes from, how to have better school and business partnerships and much more.</span></p>