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Jeff Sandefer started his first business at the age of 16 and has founded or co-founded nine successful businesses or non-profits. Over the last fifteen years, Jeff has worked with entrepreneur-teachers to build a nationally acclaimed entrepreneurship program, winning numerous teaching honors in the process. In fact, Jeff was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States and by The Economist magazine as one of the top Business School professors in the world. Additionally, alongside his wife, he has been growing a revolutionary, global network of K-12 schools that turns learning upside down. What does success mean to Jeff? If you asked him yourself, he’d make it clear that money and awards aren’t what matter. “My great-grandfather found his calling as president of a small college and is buried on the campus he worked so hard to build. On one side of his tombstone it says: ‘If you would see his monument, look around.’ This reminds me each of us wants to contribute something meaningful with our lives. On the other side of the tombstone is inscribed, ‘A good name is rather to be had than great riches.’ This reminds me that leading a good life is even more important than what you contribute.”To be successful is to make a difference in the world. As a business man and entrepreneur, Jeff has focused his business initiatives on with people and education in the forefront of everything. “If we can awaken in each individual or student a sense of their God-given gifts, and them use these gifts to make a difference, then we will change the world, one person at a time. As far as an entrepreneurial calling, I think we all weave the threads of our lives into callings that seem clearer in retrospect. The key for me is to always be honing my gifts, using them in a way I enjoy, to serve others and solve a deep burning need in the world.”

• Acton Academy Co-Founder

  Acton

  Austin, Tx, Us