Ralph Griffith

About Ralph Griffith

Ralph Griffith is a retired Professor of Entrepreneurship and business incubation, business planning, and commercialization expert, with dozens of company ideation and commercialization successes. He consults with universities and corporations on creativity, workforce development, incubation, and creating innovation within organizations. Ralph is also a production management and innovation consultant and has operated BaseCampster for over a decade. In addition to consulting, Ralph is a WordPress developer and operates a number of privately held business ventures.The following are highlights of his passions:• Supports the coordination and management of production budgets, schedules, meetings/events, logistics, and project life cycle tasks to comprehensively contribute to organizational and task success.• Applies a comprehensive skillset and grasp of innovative instructional approaches to impact teams with overreaching financial outcomes.• Facilitates completion of production program standards, and service documentation; playing a key role in evaluating program efficacy and defining goals for program continuation and improvement.• Balances multiple tasks while utilizing top-level problem-solving, effective communication skills, business strategies, and project management to support efficiency and maximum returns.• Builds solid relationships with clients and other production management and talent through effective interpersonal, communication, and leadership abilities

Experience

1. Founder Wordpress Developer Startup Consultant

   Basecampster.Com

   Sep 2006 — Present · Asheville, NC, US

   Formerly the Small Business Solutions Group (SBSG), BaseCampster is an experienced and passionate group of designers, developers, startup experts, project managers, writers, and artists. Together we create digital content to help businesses bring their products into the marketplace.Mission: To help our startup clients gain lasting competitive advantage through innovation, change, and operational excellence. To realize our mission, we have built a team that challenges the status quo, who take initiative and wants to have an impact on our clients’ bottom line. Our team provides full-service consulting solutions that are tailored to each client\'s unique needs.

Education

• Northwood University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Integrated Management

  2006 — 2008

• Baker College

  Doctorate of Business Administration, Entrepreneurship

  2008 — 2013

• Alma College

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business Adminstration & Political Science (Double Major)

  1999 — 2004