Creative Leadership Adventures is pleased to announce a long term contractual relationship with The Council for Entrepreneurial Development. Creative Leadership Adventures will provide services designed to influence long term strategic planning, organizational reengineering and corporate development imperatives from strategy to action.

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. With more than 4,000 active members representing over 1,100 companies, CED is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation.

Headquartered in the Research Triangle Region with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. CED helps entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries and at all stages of development -- from high-tech product-based organizations to professional service firms, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses.

CED achieves its mission by providing programs and services in four major areas: education, capital formation, mentoring, and communications. More than 8,000 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and service providers participate in its programs annually.

Some of the successful companies that have benefited from CED's programs and services include Red Hat, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, LendingTree, Ganymede Software, OpenSite Technology and a number of others.