Stan Schultes is the Resident Innovation Architect at Station 2 Innovation, co-founder of Spark Growth, a social/civic innovation enterprise and an expert in Strategic Doing, an agile and action-centric protocol for rapid development and implementation of strategies across organizations and sectors. He has a passion for creating community engagement between entrepreneurs, investors, and educational resources, and in helping to create and nurture startups. As an entrepreneur and professional technologist, he has led teams from the Fortune 200 to stewardship of several startups. He is certified by InBIA in Business Incubator Management, internationally recognized as a technology expert, and has earned the coveted Microsoft MVP award 13 years running.
Stan has experience working internationally, collaborating on systems development and transferring manufacturing systems technology to partners worldwide. In 30+ years of software architecture and development, he pushes the limits of technology, enabling projects to be disruptive in their industries. The number of tools available today and the challenges/opportunities associated with these, make this one of the most exciting seasons of his life’s work. Stan is an expert in Purdue Center for Regional Development’s Strategic Doing, an agile and action-centric protocol for rapid development and implementation of strategies across organizations and sectors.
Stan is passionate about community engagement, and is a co-founder of 3.0 Leaders which annually convenes worldwide thought leaders, DaVinci’s Faire and BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton and the Sarasota .NET Developers group. He works actively with Bradenton’s Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Redevelopment Committee and has served on the Suncoast Technology Forum Board of Directors and the Florida High Tech Corridor Core Council.