She Got a Job the Next Day. 40 Years Later, Her Daughter Graduated Too.
Henry "Hank" Herzing is 90 years old. He read the weekly reports this morning. He'll talk to Frank Cianciarusa, his president, again this week. And at some point in the not-too-distant future, he'll convene his entire Canadian and American team in Florida, because that's what you do when the culture you've built matters more to you than your title.
In this episode of the EdUp Canada Podcast, host Michael Sangster sits down with the founder and CEO of Herzing College's Canadian operations — nearly 50,000 students trained across Canada over the institution's history — for a conversation that is, at its heart, about what it means to run a business for the right reasons over a very long time.
Henry traces his career from a computer school in Milwaukee with 25 students and one grand dame receptionist, through eight years of losses in the trades division he refused to abandon, through a Navy missile incident that gave him his ethics framework before he'd ever hired his first instructor, all the way to a Winnipeg graduation where a mother grabbed him in a hug meant for her daughter — and a photo op where another mother quietly mentioned she'd graduated from Herzing 40 years earlier, gotten a job the next day, retired from that same employer, sent her daughter through university with the income, and watched that daughter come back to Herzing for skills.
That's not a marketing story. That's a life. And Henry Herzing has been accumulating them for six decades.
What to expect
[00:00:00] — The Mother Who Graduated 40 Years Ago
[00:04:30] — The Navy Missile That Fell Off the Truck
[00:07:00] — 50,000 Students in Canada. What That Number Actually Means.
[00:07:30] — The Mother Who Ran Up and Hugged Him
[00:20:30] — "We Can Do It Together"
[00:14:00] — Was ist dein Beruf?
[00:16:30] — Eight Years of Losses. He Kept Going.
[00:27:30] — "If You Don't Vote, Don't Complain About the Government"
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