Dave Kerpen

Town of North Hempstead, New York

Revive, Thrive, North Hempstead Comes Alive! 

I am taking my skills and experience as a 7 time entrepreneur to government, looking to lead the 5th largest town in the United States with my brand of likeable leadership: listening, transparency, authencity and responsiveness.

Candidate for Town Supervisor, Town of North Hemsptead, NY

The Candidate Podcast

I'm giving people an inside look at all of the ups and downs and inner workings of the campaign, in The Candidate, the first-ever-of-its-kind weekly podcast to dive deep into a local campaign. 

I hope you'll give it a listen and give me feedback, so I can make it better!

Podcast Host

The Whisper Group

I am honored to be the only male leader serving a spectacular all-female leadership team at The Whisper Group. 

The Whisper Group is an exit readiness practice for women owned businesses. We help women from scale through sale, and we focus specifically on helping turn their lifestyle businesses into life-changing assets.

Clients who work with The Whisper Group are paired with exited female founders who have built and sold a business in their specific industry. Clients are led through a process known as the Whisper Way-- a methodology and planning program designed to make a business more valuable at exit. When a client is done with the program, they'll have a healthier, more valuable business that they can either decide to keep running, or join the ranks of women that successfully sold their businesses.

The name "Whisper" comes from the seven tenets a business-owner needs to make their business sellable for maximum value: evaluating their Why, How, Income, Secret sauce, Profitability, Executive team, and Roar factor (i.e. the confidence to sit in a room full of men to negotiate the biggest deal of their lifetime).

But it also comes from the fact that no one is speaking loudly about the exits of women business owners. We talk about fundraising. We talk about bootstrapping. We talk about work-life balance. But we don't often discuss selling for life changing sums of money. And I think that's because we simply don't realize it's possible.

The Whisper Group is here to change that.

Board Member

Apprentice

Apprentice is a platform that connects entrepreneurs and business leaders with smart and motivated college students that are looking for real-world experience and mentorship.

Apprentices work between 10 and 15 hours per week from college, on anything and everything needed to make their leaders’ lives easier and to make them more effective.

Learn more now at http://ChooseApprentice.com

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer 

Kerpen Ventures 

Kerpen Ventures is an investment vehicle through which serial entrepreneurs and wife and husband team Carrie and Dave Kerpen invest in early stage startups (pre-seed or seed round) who meet one or more of the following criteria: 
1) Female founder / owner 
2) BIPOC founder / owner 
3) Social impact focus 

If you meet these criteria, we look forward to talking!

Managing Director

Grateful

Helping company scale while helping the world be more grateful. 

Meaningful. Purposeful. Grateful Giving.
Where businesses give to nonprofits that matter most to their customers and employees

Advisor

BenBella Books

My 4th business book and 5th book overall, Get Over Yourself: How to Lead and Delegate Effectively for More Time, More Freedom, and More Success is a roadmap for entrepreneurs, small business owners and leaders at companies of all sizes. Published by BenBella, the book is endorsed by Barbara Corcoran, Jesse Cole, AJ Jacobs, Dorie Clark and Pat Flynn.

Author

Bon AppéSweet 

I’m helping this amazing, healthy chocolate company scale.

Mentorcam

I’m helping this exciting startup that democratizes access to mentorship scale up.

Tiny Values

I’m helping this amazing startup scale up. It’s a values-based subscription box for kids and their parents, teaching kindness, courage, gratitude and more!

Dave Kerpen is running for Town Supervisor in North Hempstead, NY, the 5th largest town in the US! 

A serial entrepreneur, (7 businesses, 2 exits), New York Times bestselling author of 5 books, and global keynote speaker, he is the co-founder and CEO of Apprentice, a platform connecting entrepreneurs with top college students, and is the author of several bestselling books, including Get Over Yourself, The Art of People, Likeable Social Media, and Likeable Business.

He is a popular contributor to Inc.com and a LinkedIn Influencer, and has been featured in many media outlets, including the New York Times, the TODAY show, CBS Early Show, BBC, Financial Times, and more. Additionally, Kerpen is a Board Member of the Whisper Group, a Board Member for Grateful Giving, and an investor in several companies through Kerpen Ventures. He is also the President of the Board of the Hunter College High School Alumnae/i Association. He was previously the founder and chairman of Likeable Local, and was the cofounder and CEO of Likeable Media, which was sold to 10Pearls in April 2021.

Most important, Dave is a father to 3 beautiful, healthy children and husband to Carrie.

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