Episode 88 – Step by Step: Iowa Shoe Company’s Registered Apprentice Program Leads to Lasting Careers

<p><span class="TextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang= "EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class= "NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW132598183 BCX0">In 1909</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">,</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0"> Win Brown of Shenandoah</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">, IA</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">,</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0"> opened a shoe store </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">in a </span><span class= "ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW132598183 BCX0">nine foot-wide</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0"> space.  Fast forward over 110 years and </span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">you can find Brown’s Shoe Fit stores across the Midwest. </span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">Kelsi Bouray</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">, Training and Development Director at Brown’s Shoe Fit</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">,</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0"> tells us </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">how they’re using a</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">n entrepreneurship Registered Apprenticeship Program to train the</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0"> next generation </span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">of </span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">store owners</span><span class= "NormalTextRun SCXW132598183 BCX0">.  </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW132598183 BCX0" data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>