"High-Impact Innovation" - June 25, 2012

Keynote Speaker

Holly Green

"INNOVATING EVERY DAY"

During this fast-paced, high-energy presentation, Holly will outline how you can incorporate a spirit of innovation into almost everything you do. This action-packed session focuses on:

� Exploring why & how our success gets us stuck

� Exposing our current decision making and thinking processes

� How to ask the right questions to drive results

� Changing our thinking to get clear on what is possible

� Unlearning tried and true innovation eradicators

� Practicing innovation techniques, including:

v Balance the big picture and the details (video)

v Focus on a target (hands on application)

v Change your perspective (exercise)

v Question the right answer (video)

v Expose yourself – to diverse data and your thinking process (checklist)

The session will enable you to see the world in a multitude of ways so that innovation becomes an everyday activity – not just something you do when you are brainstorming with a team. Participants will walk away with techniques that can be put into practice immediately to achieve your desired business results. Attendees will also receive a 12 week series of weekly email follow up materials to support you in cultivating the habit of innovation

Panel Discussion

"A CULTURE OF INNOVATION"

Some of the area’s most innovative CEOs will reveal how they have created a culture of innovation in their organizations, and how they are leveraging this innovation to gain a sustainable competitive advantage.