Tonight the Ohio Union’s Performance Hall will be filled with eager students and small business owners looking for guidance to become successful leaders.

James Sun, a finalist on the 6th season of “The Apprentice” and a successful investor and entrepreneur, will speak about the importance of creating one’s own success.

By age 11, Sun was already building his business. He conducted door-to-door sales for window cleaning companies and claimed 25 percent of the profits.

Sun invested $5,000 at age 18 in a technology investment company and became a multi-millionaire in four years.

He founded two companies and hosts an international business reality show called “Sun Tzu.” Sun helps failing entrepreneurs make sound business investments. His latest project is producing a feature film.

“It starts with your mentality and your passion for life,” Sun said. “I always tell students and people that if you are not passionate about something, or where you’re going, and you are not determined in your mind to get there, then success rarely follows.”

Anchie Huang, a fourth-year in industrial and systems engineering, helped set up the event and said he hopes students, in particular engineering students, learn skills for the future.

“As engineers, we lack a lot of leadership, and I feel like the future of engineers is going to be more proactive and to be more hands on,” Huang said.

With the help of Gregory Washington, the dean of the College of Engineering, the College of Engineering Student Government raised money to bring Sun’s wealth of knowledge to OSU’s students.

“One of the things that I talk about with college students is to train their minds, to train the schedules and train their lives in a way where they can actually be very proactive and opportunistic and not just sit back and get their degree,” Sun said.

Doors to the event open at 6:30 p.m. and admission is free.

Christine Poon, dean of the Fisher College of Business and former executive of Johnson & Johnson are the welcoming speakers.

“My goal is to convert ordinary college students into the future leaders of America,” Huang said, “and to be able to follow James Sun’s path to success and greatness.”