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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Comments to Snelling Leadership Students at Graduation 082720
Tenets of Leadership: A Unity of Opposites (applies to all three sectors: gov., bus., & nonprofit) Humility (arrogance is toxic) and Courage Seek and defend truth (no alternative facts, only...
Vermont and The Creative Economy
First, I want to thank the Vermont Council on Rural Development, both for convening us today, but also for the great community-level work they are doing around the State to...
*Champlain College Graduation Speech ’08
Thank you. I am honored to be here today and am mindful that I am here because of you all and what you have accomplished. You have made today possible...
Key Note: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility
A month ago, I was standing in the Sala della Pace in the Palazzo Publico in Siena, Italy, looking up at a fresco by Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicting the virtues of...
Economic Development Speech Green Mtn. Business Expo
I’d like to talk with you today about the new reality of economic development in Vermont. Historically, I don’t believe we’ve been very strategic in our business development initiatives, choosing...
Myths of Economic Development & Taxation in Vermont
Before I get down to economic development, let me make a few general remarks that may unsettle your thinking: All too often, economic development is defined not by its opportunities...
VT Bus. for Social Responsibility Comments 5/12/2011
I’d like to wind up the day by saying a few words about the social contract. I think we can all agree that the social contract is an agreement between...
Mt Abraham Academic Excellence Night Comments
Thanks for inviting me to join you in this celebration. It’s always a pleasure to return to Mount Abraham. I enjoyed my time here greatly and my children Steve and...
COMMENTS DELIVERED BY FORMER CHAIR, BILL SCHUBART
Below are comments delivered by former chair, Bill Schubart (1998-2000) during Chairmen’s Circle panel at VBR’s 2012 Summer Membership Meeting on June 14, 2012. At 67, and barely able to...
Brave New Worlds: A Conversation about Independent Publishing
Brave New Worlds: A Conversation about Independent Publishing with author and VPR commentator Bill Schubart, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 6:30-8pm, $30Bill Schubart writes about Vermont in fiction, humor, and opinion pieces....
Talk with Affordable Housing Convention – July 14, 2014
Our state’s prescient motto, “Freedom and Unity” sums up the fragile equilibrium between the independent rights accorded to each of us to provide for ourselves and our families and our...
Keynote Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership
My first exposure to the idea that Burlington’s shoreline had any other significance than as a large body of water was when I was 15 and my mother gave me...
