John Rogers

John Rogers is an Instructor of Entrepreneurship at Louisiana State University. His teaching focuses on innovation, venture development, and strategic decision-making under uncertainty, with an emphasis on applying core concepts to real-world contexts through case-based learning and project-driven coursework.

Before entering academia, he co-founded and led multiple ventures in West Africa across construction, agriculture, service-learning tourism, and mining. He also served as Director of Operations for a faculty-founded medical device startup at the University of Mississippi. These experiences inform his teaching, particularly around operating in resource-constrained and uncertain environments.