Faculty Experts
Meghan Florkowski
Meghan Florkowski is director of the WISE: Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Women’s Business Center (WBC).
Among her professional experiences, she led a portfolio of entrepreneurship training programs at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ that reached over 30,000 military service connected individuals. One notable program in this portfolio (V-WISE) was for women veterans, which Florkowski grew into a nationally-recognized program that reached over 2,000 women veterans across 49 states.
During her time with the V-WISE program, her work was highlighted in over 75 media outlets, including Entrepreneur Magazine, MSNBC, the Washington Post and Military Times. The V-WISE program was recognized in 2015 by Harvard’s Kennedy School as a bright idea.
Florkowski also worked in employer relations at Le Moyne College, as an operations manager for the USO, as a military transition career training leader in Europe, and as a captain in the U.S. Army, among other positions.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering psychology from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a master of science in exercise science and health promotion from California University of Pennsylvania.