Idea Validation Bootcamp

2025 Founders Fit Bootcamp Series

Session 6: Idea Validation Bootcamp
📅 Date: December 18, 2025
🕒 Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
📍 Location: Online Zoom Meeting (link provided upon registration)
🎟️ Cost: Free

Join us for the sixth session of Founders Fit Bootcamp, a monthly webinar series from SOAR Innovation designed to equip early-stage entrepreneurs with practical, actionable tools to build and grow their business in Eastern Kentucky and beyond.

Healthcare executive and entrepreneur John P. Reinhart will bring real-world insight into testing, refining, and validating business ideas. With deep experience building and scaling education, health, and workforce platforms, John will share practical ways to pressure-test your products, services, and messaging so you can move into 2026 with clarity and confidence.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create and interview with a set of discovery questions
• Set up and conduct customer and prospect interviews
• Record, measure, and make changes based on what you learn

Save your spot: https://soar-ky.org/soar-innovation/founders-fit-bootcamp/

About the speaker
John P. Reinhart, CPA, MBA is a healthcare executive and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in digital health, workforce development, long-term care, and aging innovation. He is Partner & President of CNAonline.com (Academic Platforms), which operates an exclusive national partnership with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to develop and deliver hybrid, pre-licensure Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) training programs and related education technology services.

John currently serves as an Executive-in-Residence (EIR) supporting the NIH National Institute on Aging, working through BioHealth Innovation and the NIA Office of Small Business Research, where he advises early-stage companies on commercialization strategy, health policy considerations, and scaling innovations for aging populations.

He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of Thrive Center Inc., a nonprofit focused on advancing innovation in aging and caregiving, and a Partner & Manager at Extract Wellness. Earlier in his career, John co-founded InnovateLTC, an international center dedicated to validating and accelerating new products, services, and technologies for long-term care, and held senior innovation and executive roles in healthcare organizations based in Kentucky and beyond.

John holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Kentucky and an MBA in Healthcare Sector Management and Policy from the University of Miami, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA).