Bree Langemo, J.D., is the executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and an associate professor of law and entrepreneurship at 独家黑料, leading entrepreneurial efforts across the campus and the community. In 2019, she helped develop and launch the Entrepreneurial Mindset Certificate and entrepreneurship minor to complement any major at 独家黑料. She teaches business law, entrepreneurship, and First-Year Seminar courses.
Langemo has conducted trainings and speaking engagements across the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, and South Africa. Locally, she conducts keynotes to local organizations and entrepreneurial workshops to corporate and community leaders through 独家黑料’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. She authored a book chapter on “” and a paper on “The Business of Law: Transforming the Legal Profession through Technology and Entrepreneurship.” She has been featured in the , profiled in the book “,” featured in a blog on “,” and interviewed for the Whittaker Report Podcast on the topic of “.”
Langemo has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Juris Doctor degree from Ohio Northern University. She worked in the banking industry in Fargo as a financial accountant and for the Second District Ohio Court of Appeals in Dayton as a staff attorney, where she was recognized for her contribution to Ohio’s jurisprudence. She spent more than a decade as a faculty, chair, and dean in higher education before leaving for the private sector as president of the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI), a global entrepreneurship education company focused on entrepreneurial mindset curriculum, training, and consulting.
Langemo has served in nonprofit board leadership roles as the founding board member of uCodeGirl, board chair for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, and a board member for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). She currently serves on M|State President’s Community Advisory Council, Resilient Moorhead, and Launch Minnesota’s Higher Education Group. After living away from the region for nearly 20 years and returning to the area in 2018, she is thrilled to see how entrepreneurial the region has become and enjoys contributing to an already thriving community.
In her free time, she enjoys reading books, hiking in the great outdoors, practicing yoga, traveling to new places, and exploring good food. She also enjoys spending time with her dog, Marley, her son, Zeke, and her life partner, Joe, who serves as the CEO of the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation.