Arel Moodie

Arel Moodie
Born November 15, 1983
Brooklyn, NY
Residence New York City
Nationality American
Alma mater Binghamton University
Occupation Self-help motivational speaker; founder, College Success Program; co-founder, The PlaceFinder; co-founder, Empact
Years active 2005–current
Religion Judaism
Spouse(s) Yolanda Febles
Children 2
Website arelmoodie.com

Arel Moodie (born November 15, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, author and speaker on likability, leadership and success. He is the founder of the College Success Program; co-founder of The PlaceFinder; co-founder and former partner of Empact; and host of the podcast The Art of Likability. He wrote the Amazon bestselling self-help book Your Starting Point For Student Success (2009).

Early life and education

The son of a Jamaican-Cuban father and Jewish mother,[1] Moodie grew up on welfare in the Glenwood Housing Projects in Brooklyn, NY.[2] He graduated from Binghamton University in 2005 with a BA in philosophy, politics and law.[1][3] He is a member of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity.[4] While at Binghamton, Moodie’s dance group Black Dance Repertoire performed as an opening act for Grammy Award-winning R&B group 112.[5]

Career

The PlaceFinder

In 2005, after winning Binghamton University’s 2004 School of Management business plan competition,[4] Moodie co-founded The PlaceFinder, a website that helped Binghamton students find affordable, quality off-campus housing, roommates and sublets.[6] Under Moodie’s guidance, the business grew to offer its services at universities across the United States.[5] Moodie later sold The PlaceFinder.[7]

Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour

In 2006, Moodie came on board as the lead emcee of Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour (EET), which organizes events to educate college students about starting a business.[8] Some of the initial funding for the company came from his business partners winning the NYU Undergraduate Business Plan Competition.[2] Moodie became a partner in 2009, before helping found Empact, EET’s parent company that focuses on cultivating entrepreneurs.[2][9] In November 2011, in conjunction with National Entrepreneurship Month, the Empact100 Recognition Event was hosted at the White House. The gathering honored 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30.[10]

College Success Program

Moodie is the founder of the College Success Program, which conducts and produces speaking events, books and curriculum to help students succeed in school and in life.[11] He speaks about student success and leadership to students across the country.[7]

Likability

In 2014, Moodie gave TED talks on the topics of likability and innovation.[12][13][14] He hosts the podcast The Art of Likability and has written about likability for Forbes[15] and The Huffington Post.[16]

Honors

Moodie was profiled as a top Generation Y leader in the 2008 collection Millennial Leaders.[5] He represented Youth Entrepreneurs for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the first Governor's Conference on Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2008.[17][18] Inc. magazine named him one of the top young entrepreneurs in the US in its 2011 30 Under 30 list for his role in the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour along with Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons.[2] Also in 2011, he was honored by Black Enterprise magazine as one of 11 under-35 tycoons, naming him a Leader of the New School for Entrepreneurship;[7] and was named to the St. Gallen Symposium 100 Leaders of Tomorrow.[19] In 2013, Binghamton University’s Alumni Association awarded Moodie with the Lois B. DeFleur Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, which recognizes recent graduates “who are established or demonstrate potential to become future leaders.”[11]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Eric Coker, “Best-selling author talks to current students,” Alumni Connect (Binghamton University), February 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Allison Fass, “Sheena Lindahl, Arel Moodie, and Michael Simmons, Founders of Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour,” Inc., June 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ “Naming the Exemplary Student,” Inside (Binghamton University), October 2004.
  4. 1 2 Steve Seepersaud, “Student Startups: Where Are They Now?” Reaching Higher, Volume 2, Fall 2011, pp. 20-23.
  5. 1 2 3 Bea Fields, Scott Wilder, Jim Bunch & Rob Newbold, Millennial Leaders: Success Stories From Today’s Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders, Buffalo Grove, IL: Writer’s of the Round Table Press, 2008, chapter 11, pp. 107-19.
  6. ↑ Sharon Jayson, “Gen Y makes a mark and their imprint is entrepreneurship,” USA Today, December 8, 2006.
  7. 1 2 3 “Leaders of the New School,” Black Enterprise, January 5, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hannah Seligson, “No Jobs? Young Graduates Make Their Own,” New York Times, December 11, 2010.
  9. ↑ Linda Peia, “Two Essential Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs,” Forbes, December 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ Ronnie Cho, “The Empact100 Recognition Event,” whitehouse.gov, November 16, 2011.
  11. 1 2 “Alumni Association Special Recognition Awards presented,” Alumni Connect (Binghamton University), May 2013.
  12. ↑ "Themes: The Innovator Within," ted.com, April 24, 2014.
  13. ↑ "TEDxSU: Mayor Stephanie Miner to speak at Syracuse University's first TEDx event," syracuse.com, March 31, 2014.
  14. ↑ "The real art of becoming likeable," ted.com, October 13, 2014.
  15. ↑ Arel Moodie, "How To Increase Your Likability And Grow Your Business," Forbes, June 6, 2014.
  16. ↑ Arel Moodie, "3 Ways to Become More Likable (That Your Competitors Don't Know About)," The Huffington Post, February 12, 2015.
  17. ↑ “Young Entrepreneurs,” Kauffman Foundation. Accessed July 1, 2013.
  18. ↑ Cyndia Zwahlen, “State to air small businesses’ policy ideas,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 2008.
  19. ↑ “Arel Moodie: Youth Entrepreneurship, Student Leadership, and Student Success Expert,” speakerpedia.com. Accessed July 21, 2013.

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