LEADING THE WAY
Cooper Weisman’s goal is to be the CEO of a startup company. The senior at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts has a vision and an action plan, but unlike many starry-eyed 17-year-olds with a dream, he expects to encounter a fair number of obstacles on his path to success.
Fifteen years from now, Weisman believes his biography will read, in part, that he “has failed 90 times but succeeded 10 times, spectacularly never letting anyone or himself get in the way of his vision.”
Weisman credits his reality check and unwavering sense of direction to the Solomon Leadership Program, an intense, 10-week curriculum at Palm Beach Synagogue that teaches teens the essential qualities to make them effective future leaders. Weisman completed the course in April.
“This is not a business course,” says Lawrence Sosnow, the Palm Beach philanthropist
