Linda C. Feltman Email & Phone Number

University Park, Pa

After 19 years with the Penn State SBDC, as of August 2018, I accepted a full-time faculty appointment with the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. I continue as the Faculty Advisor to Happy Valley Comm, the awesome student run firm. Between Fall 2018 and Spring 2022, I was the Faculty Associate for the Lion Launch Pad Living Learning Community Entrepreneurship floor in North Halls which was a dedicated living option for freshmen and sophomores interested in learning more about Penn State's entrepreneurship culture. We had our own unique maker-space, open only to the LLP LLC students. For Fall 2022, I am launching the new ENTI Student Ambassador program, where select students, pursuing ENTI as a minor, will help promote and increase enrollment of that minor. My teaching load for 2022 to 2023 includes teaching an entrepreneurship class that is part of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor (ENTI), a Telecommunications management class and a First Year Seminar. Between fall 2020 and Spring 2022, I was one of the pitch coaches for the amazing student startups that are coming out of the various Launch Boxes across the University Commonwealth system - including of course, Happy Valley Launch Box here in State College. Also during 2020 – 2022, I coached the inspiring student startups that were invited to present their early stage startups during the Penn State Venture and IP Conference in April 2021 and 2022 as well as at The President’s tailgate in Fall 2021. Since folks have asked - yes it is true that after more than a decade of involvement with Penn State's response to Global Entrepreneurship Week, my only role now is to offer it as an activity to my various classes. GEW is now in the capable hands of Elizabeth Fegert at the Penn State SBDC. As I noted in the header above, I continue to be incredulous I am paid money to do something that I love so much. Life is good.

I am the faculty adviser for a student organization that is essentially a student run public relations firm. It is a dynamic group of students who are primarily public relations or advertising majors who have created a firm that reaches out to other student run organizations assisting them with publicity on their organization. They also have worked with some SBDC clients who are willing to sign a publicity release allowing the students to talk about them as a client and what work HVC has done on their behalf.

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

I freelance write for this privately owned regional (covers state of PA) magazine. Due to COVID, I took a one year hiatus until January 2022. Prior to this occurring, except for a brief sabbatical in 2014, I have written their bed and breakfast column since November 1991 with the first column appearing in January 1992. I also write an occasional sidebar article to accompany the column. It's what I term my 'vacation fun job'. I have stayed in hundreds of B & B's – ninety percent in Pennsylvania - and have had the opportunity to meet some amazing people and visit all 67 counties in Pennsylvania multiple times over the years. For over a decade my daughter accompanied me on our trips - as in someone was paying me to spend time with my daughter. But in 2010 she graduated from Penn State and began her own life journey. I travel solo now and love the chance to meet new people and stay at a myriad of wonderful B & B's. And yes - they are what I term 'real B & B's - not AirBnB properties. In November 2019, I was asked to share my 28 plus years of experience as a columnist as the lunch time speaker at the annual Pennsylvania Bed and Breakfast Association (PABBI) conference. It was fun to chat with innkeepers who I have featured in past columns and find out that months or years later, they continue to receive phone calls as a result of the column I wrote about them.

Penn State

I was the Faculty Advisor to the GEWC. They were a group of students who managed one of the days of Penn State's response to GEW , taping into Penn State resources for student orgs to bring in amazing speakers. Now that GEW has pivoted to be more community centrist event and less student focused, the raison d'etre of this org has gone away. Nice group of students for a couple of years who planned some cool events and traveled to San Francisco so explore the startup culture in the city.

119 Technology Center, University Park, Pa 16802

Linda coordinated the Penn State response to Global Entrepreneurship Week, a global event that occurs the third week of November world wide. In 2013, the Penn State response to GEW ranked second in the nation. More than 3000 students and community members participated in over 40 events held during a five day period of time. Linda also is lead on student entrepreneurship and student engaged learning.

After more than a dozen years at the SBDC I still look forward to Monday morning. As an SBDC consultant I work daily with small business owners helping them start, grow and prosper - even in this crazy economy. I am a frequent guest speaker for PSU entrepreneurship classes and am always looking for ways to partner SBDC clients with student service learning. It's a great job - as an SBDC consultant we have a part in guiding people in what are often life defining decisions.The official stuff found on the resume: Assist Centre and Mifflin County small businesses in a variety of capacities including creation of marketing plans, writing business plan and/or assembling an entire set of proforma financial spreadsheets for purposes that include seeking commercial funding.Create and effectively deliver successful business-training seminars.Responsible for supervision of undergraduate and graduate students working on various initiatives and projects, including working with students who are members of student entrepreneurial related campus clubs and organizations. During summer 2010 for the Penn State SBDC, implemented and supervised new initiative enabling IST student interns to experience working directly with SBDC clients, offering assistance on IT related issuesRegularly requested to present to various Penn State classes on business related topicsRegularly work with student entrepreneurs on variety of levelsInteract with professors and students on various assigned projects related to entrepreneurship

University Park, Pennsylvania

I have taught a senior seminar class evenings during the Penn State academic year - Comm 493 - Entrepreneurship In the Information Age since January 2005. I became full time faculty in August 2018 and will continue to teach this class as part of that position. I (much to my surprise) received the 2008/2009 College of Communication Deans Excellence Award for Outstanding Faculty Associate and again in April 2016 when I shared the honors with my co-teacher and colleague, Michael Ryan. These were awards given when I was part time faculty. That was an unexpected honor to be selected not only once, but twice.

University Park, Pa

I worked as a business consultant at the Penn State SBDC from April 1999 until August 2018 with the years from 2015 to 2018 primarily only with student entrepreneurs. I co-coordinated the 10th GEW celebration at Penn State during fall 2018 as part of my transition from the SBDC to full time faculty.

Coastal Maine

I helped lobstermen write a business plan to better understand their businesses and how to manage change. Once completed they qualified for a grant through the FSA/TAA federal program.

This was a volunteer position. I sat on the student advisory council for 4 of the 8 years noted and was an active parent volunteer during other times.

In 1982 launched Rest & Repast Bed & Breakfast Reservations to fulfill a lodging shortage during peak Penn State weekends. Grew to a year around business with two employees. At the time sale, Rest & Repast enjoyed a loyal host and guest network making it one of the more visible and successful reservations services in the United States. Its excellent reputation was due to serving needs of both clients and hosts while changing with market demands.Rest & Repast was the first bed and breakfast option in central Pennsylvania, paving the way for others to follow; often the initiators and educators, working with local, county and statewide officials to ensure this once cottage industry was treated fairly at all levels. Rest & Repast (i.e. Linda) helped lead the statewide effort to have House Bill 1970 become law in June 1992 which exempted bed and breakfasts of ten rooms or less from stringent DEP and Health Department requirements that would have required bed and breakfast's to install a restaurant kitchen to serve a simple breakfast. Worked with Bellefonte, State College and Philipsburg's borough councils and Ferguson Township to pass user friendly ordinances Sold business subsequent to accepting position

Managed small high tech firm from start up stages through first eight years. Secured army ordnance contracts, including multiple orders for nose cones for 22 mm anti-tank rockets. Worked with SBA out of Washington DC to secure grants and loans.Worked with Ben Franklin Program at Penn State to secure funding for various projects. Hired all personnel, traveled to conferences and seminar, wrote all technical literature, managed engineering consulting team and oversaw manufacturing of products. Created and steered marketing of business model as defined by primary owner. Left position to pursue own business.

Creative Expressions was based in Robesonia, PA and they sold fun needlework and crewel patterns through a home party plan. Since I was already teaching crewel in my home, it seemed like a good fit. The problem was that I ended up spending most of my commissions on more and more kits and decided in the end that I would need to live to 100 before I could ever complete them. It was a fun evening position that enabled me to meet like minded women, but decades later, I still have an attic full of as yet uncompleted projects. When I started Rest and Repast in 1982, I resigned from CE.

Coppercraft Guild in Taunton, Mass was a popular home party plan in the late 70's and early 80's selling decorative copper kitchenware and household items. I took this on because it seemed like fun and the commissions were generous. I ended up winning a number of sales awards before I decided to move on to other ventures.

Wrote technical flyers for underwater and acoustic ultrasonic transducers and piezoceramics.Fielded inside sales calls, helped staff booths at exhibitions. Took initiative to have outdated exhibit booth updated and redesigned within a limited budget, using in plant resources and local crafts people.

B.A., Advertising/Pr

Activities and Societies: Virtually none - see additional notesDuring the 70's it was still possible to put oneself through college.

Communication And Media Studies

This was one of the first study abroad programs at Penn State and for this then young person with limited international experience, it was.

Linguistics

This was a whim - a year off to immerse myself in French and live in another country while going to university

Associate Degree, Business Management. Minors In Spanish, Russian, French

Activities and Societies: I was the Advertising Manager for the student newspaper "The Courier" and also did some feature writing.During.