Falcone Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Launching students and startups
The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) empowers students to turn ideas into action. Through hands-on, co-curricular experiences, and direct engagement with founders and innovators, students learn to launch ventures, solve real problems, and lead change with confidence, character, and purpose.
Academic Excellence
Get equipped to create and lead purpose-driven for-profit businesses through academic programs, practicums and internships.
Real-World Immersion
Experience thriving venture and innovation spaces and stories through immersion trips, speaker series and networking events.
Venture Building
Take advantage of opportunities to engage in start-up pitch competitions, our startup incubator/accelerator, entrepreneurs-in-residence or our entrepreneurship club.
Academic Paths
Participate in CEL's rich course offerings and experiential learning opportunities through a major in Entrepreneurship & Innovation or a minor in Innovation & Social Enterprise.
From the Director
"CEL is where students imagine, innovate, build, and lead — discovering their spark through hands-on projects, mentorship, and real-world challenges. Supported by a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and innovators, they don’t just study entrepreneurship — they experience it. With our close proximity to Greater Boston, one of the world’s most dynamic innovation hubs, our students have endless opportunities, and it is my joy to help them learn, connect, and flourish."
– Dr. Sheryl Sleeva
Director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
From our students
Natalee Williams '28
Economics, Business Management Double Major
Through CEL, I've been able to better understand what I want to be known for in terms of my vocation. I also discovered how much the root of entrepreneurship starts and ends as a mindset that actually drives the practice itself, which has been a game changer for me.
Stephen Hincken '27
Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Business Management Double Major
CEL has enriched my experience in the Entrepreneurship program here at Gordon. Attending the Praxis Activate entrepreneurship conference last February transformed how I view business, helping me see entrepreneurship as redemptive work and an opportunity to let God lead me in my future calling.
Partner with CEL
Join us in shaping the next generation of innovators and founders
As an alum or community partner, you can share your expertise, mentor students, offer internships, sponsor events, or collaborate on ventures — giving students hands-on experience and helping turn ideas into action.
Questions? We're here to help.
Sheryl Sleeva
Director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Professor in the Practice of Entrepreneurship and Innovation