Located just south of Fort Myers and north of Naples on the Southwest Florida coast, Florida Gulf Coast University encompasses 800 acres on which academic buildings, residence halls and athletics facilities share space with wetlands, pinewoods and boardwalks in a natural setting. FGCU serves 16,000 students and offers more than 95 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It emphasizes a university-wide commitment to sustainability and service learning, with students having completed more than 4 million hours of service since the university opened in 1997. With six colleges, FGCU is committed to serving Southwest Florida with academic programs designed to meet the workforce demands of the five-county region. Growing interdisciplinary programs include The Water School and the Daveler & Kauanui School of Entrepreneurship. 

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Woman of the Year

"Selection as a Wilford L. White Fellow is the highest recognition that the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) gives to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development, furtherance and benefit of small and medium sized businesses."

Wilford L. White Fellowship

Awarded by at California State Polytechnic University

Professor Emerita, Management and Human Resources

"Chosen by the [International Council for Small Business] President in consultation with the ICSB Chair, this award stands to represent individuals who feel a higher mandate to not just succeed, but rather to bestow their heart into the work that they produce."

Presidential Award

Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Educators of Florida : Board Chair

United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship : Member

International Council of Small Business & Entrepreneurship : Member 

Social innovation and poster presentations: Service-learning for business students in a team-based course

Entrepreneurship and the General Education Curriculum: Ready or Not?

Are you happy yet? Entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being

Entrepreneurship and Spirituality: A Comparative Analysis of Entrepreneurs’ Motivation

Exploring Entrepreneurship through the Lens of Spirituality

Impact of human resource management: SME performance in Vietnam

Entrepreneurship and Spirituality: Integration of Spirituality into the Workplace

Comparing spirituality on three southern California college campuses

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Sandra Kauanui is a professor of entrepreneurship at Florida Gulf Coast University. Kauanui led the team that created the curriculum for the entrepreneurship master's program and the undergraduate major and minor at FGCU. She also planned and executed the Runway Program incubator, which helps students from across campus to start and build their businesses while pursuing degrees.

Kauanui is also a professor emerita of management and human resources at California State Polytechnic University. Prior to her life in academia, Kauanui started and ran her own successful business for 20 years, providing financial, strategic planning and accounting services to entrepreneurial firms.

Organizational Behavior & Culture

Seed-stage investing

Entrepreneurial Brand & Product Management

Entrepreneurship & Community Innovation

Venture Capital and Angel Capital

Business & Leadership

Lean Startup Method

Spirituality and Entrepreneurship

Startup Businesses

Entrepreneurship

FGCU dropout returns to school, starts program to motivate at-risk young adults

FGCU’s Sandra Kauanui creates program for students who share her entrepreneurial drive

Entrepreneurship program helping students create and keep businesses in Southwest Florida

FGCU student makes playing piano easier

FGCU celebrates $4 million donation gifted to entrepreneurs

College's new $10M home for entrepreneurs has bright future

FGCU adds entrepreneurship school on campus

A life built on entrepreneurship leads to a legacy at FGCU

University entrepreneur program enters into exchange agreement with Israeli university

Teaching by example

Newsmaker Q&A with Sandra Kauanui

A partnership grounded in entrepreneurship

Catalyzing Deep Change in Regional Communities: Making a Dent in the Universe Together

The Spiritual Entrepreneur

Sandra Kauanui

Institute for Entrepreneurship: Runway Program & Seed Funding

Professor & Director Emeritus

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