Hauck named director for SD CEO West

Hauck started out as director on Dec. 30. Past SD CEO West director Michelle Kane is leaving the group in early January to direct the Sanford Underground Study Facility Basis as its director.

“Passing the leadership baton to Carissa Hauck is actually an honor,” Kane said. “Leaving the business in these kinds of able hands is an interesting complete to major it for the final five several years.”

Hauck will acquire applications, oversee day-to-working day functions of SD CEO West, supply small business advising and much more. She previously put in two a long time with the team as a internet marketing specialist and method coordinator, running grants, arranging and developing conferences and trainings, and helping with company advising.

“At SD CEO West, we deliver our solutions to every person, but we focus in serving to women of all ages. We give possibilities for networking and instruction and career growth, and I want to stimulate people today to hook up with us and attain out if they know of any individual who needs assistance. We are here for them, and our companies are free of charge and private,” Hauck informed the Journal.

“We have so several useful resource partners who also provide free of charge and confidential products and services. If we really do not know the reply, we hook up them with someone who could enable them,” she said.

SD CEO West’s office is positioned on the campus of Black Hills Point out College in Spearfish, and the corporation serves the Black Hills and most of the condition.

“The prospect to continue doing the job with the remarkable females at SD CEO West as the director and assistance other folks understand their entrepreneurial desires will be equally interesting and difficult. I just cannot wait to get begun and proceed to establish on the legacy of accomplishment of SD CEO West,” Hauck said. “Our staff is wonderful. I’m so fired up and honored to take on this part and hunting forward to continue… undertaking [the] good work Michelle has commenced.”

Hauck’s involvement with SD CEO West begun when she was its shopper. After graduating from Black Hills Condition University with a degree in small business administration and human assets in 2018, a mate who grew to become her organization husband or wife urged Hauck to commence a kombucha enterprise. Hauck experienced been brewing her very own as a interest.

“I wrote up a business enterprise prepare and (my small business lover) helped me get it started out. It labored out extremely perfectly to use the assets we experienced from BHSU. I consulted with Michelle Kane when I was obtaining started out. That is how my romance with SD CEO started to bloom,” Hauck reported.

Just after a few years in small business producing artisanal kombucha, Hauck bought the business. Scobi Kombucha is now positioned in Hot Springs. At the very same time, Hauck used for a placement at SD CEO West and was employed.

1 of her most loved areas of her job is advising many others who want to commence corporations.

The inflow of new people in the Black Hills and the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked an improve in the number of individuals who are starting up new organizations, Hauck mentioned. Rentals, Airbnbs and quick-expression rentals for the vacationer time are specially well-liked new organizations appropriate now in western South Dakota.

“There’s a ton of start-ups. We specialize in aiding folks with advertising and marketing tactics, far too. They are now possessing to compete with additional persons than they did in the past,” she mentioned.

Hauck wants to proceed assisting SD CEO West expand, and she’s seeking ahead to far more in-individual functions immediately after lots of experienced to be moved on the web before in the COVID-19 pandemic. She also wants to develop the network of volunteers who consider SD CEO West expert services to rural regions.

“I’d actually like to reignite our volunteer network. There’s a good deal of rural communities that our organization covers… It is challenging for us to go out and satisfy these persons but if we have a community of volunteers – SD CEO ambassadors – to join with these communities, that is a thing I really want to work on,” Hauck reported. “There’s so a great deal opportunity with this organization this coming year.”

In accordance to SBA South Dakota District Director Jaime Wood, the announcement of Hauck as the new SD CEO West WBC director carries on a legacy of committed services to gals smaller enterprise specialists.

“We are grateful to Michelle Kane for her sturdy yrs at SD CEO West Women’s Enterprise Center’s helm. Just one of the greatest leadership achievements is generating a strong bench of talent to preserve an corporation going and developing and Michelle set the phase for a powerful long term for smaller organization assistance throughout the state,” Wood said. “We are thrilled to see Carissa Hauck elevate into the SD CEO leadership job. She has the depth of organizational and private small business experience and established perseverance to the South Dakota entrepreneurial space.”

Wooden stated Hauck was instrumental in assisting with the current enlargement of the Women’s Company Center network in South Dakota with the start of the SD CEO East Women’s Business Centre in Sioux Falls.

SD CEO West is hosted by the Black Hills State College Foundation and partly grant funded by the U.S. Modest Business Administration. Go to bhsu.edu/sdceo/ for far more information.