How Leaders Inspire Future Leaders
Bob Hughes spent nearly 30 years in the United States Army, retiring in 2015 at the rank of Colonel. During his time in the Army he had the privilege to lead numerous teams and organizations at the tactical, regional and enterprise levels. With a strong desire to help other leaders be successful, in 2015 Bob began his second career as Clinical Faculty and Managing Director of Executive Education at The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In 2020, Bob moved to Chattanooga and continues to help other leaders through teaching and coaching.
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Why Your Company Should Join the Purpose-Driven Club
Michael Graber is the founder and managing partner of Southern Growth Studio, now known as Epic Pivot. For over 20 years, Michael has helped more than 250 organizations embed innovation departments and successfully commercialize innovations. After rebranding, he focused his company's mission on leading privately held companies through purposeful transformations.
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How to Lead in a Time of Uncertainty and Polarization
Traditional leadership models are no longer effective in our time of constant change and disruption. Leaders must respond to volatility with a value-based leadership model. In addition, leaders must recognize how diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is central to the future success of their organization.
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Using Unconventional Means to Build Innovation Capacity in Teams
From fourth graders to corporates, roughly 2,500 participants have benefitted from SHiFT – a location inspired program that uses the design process to create innovations through workshops and community projects. The same unique elements that ignite innovation at SHiFT can build greater creativity in your teams.
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Build Community with the Entrepreneurial Growth Sprint
Jasmin Espy, director of the Small Business Development Center at Prairie View A&M, led a cohort of minority entrepreneurs through Bridge’s Entrepreneurial Growth Sprint to help them achieve a growth strategy and business model canvas.
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What You Can Learn from Unum’s Revolutionary L&D Strategy
2022 is the year of L&D and talent management. If you don’t have a strategy for business growth through the growth of your employees, take some notes from Unum’s VP of L&D. Learn how to spark your own learning revolution, starting with a strong support model and a few key focus areas.
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Apply the Full Power of Design Thinking with Sprintbase
You don’t need to be a designer to practice design thinking. Dan Parkinson, Commercial Director from Sprintbase, shares how organizations are leveraging the platform to achieve new outcomes, build capability, and change cultures on a daily basis—regardless of proficiency.
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How to Prepare for the Future of Automation: Tips from U.S. Xpress
We know it’s not easy to prepare for evolving industry trends—but it is possible. Read how U.S. Xpress tackled supply chain issues by practicing strategic foresight.
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The Intersection of Innovation & Incarceration: A Nonprofit Success Story
Project Return addresses a defining dilemma of our time—mass incarceration. Learn how the leading nonprofit innovator achieves reentry success and low recidivism with a whole-person approach to social enterprise.
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How to Evolve Your Design Thinking for Public Sector Justice Values
To prepare for an emergent design future, we must look to the past. Michael Baskin, Chief Innovation Officer, discusses evolving design thinking towards public sector justice.
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How to Transform Your Workshop Design with a GroupGenius Starter Kit
Leave behind groupthink for a transformed approach to facilitating collaboration and innovation with Rob Evans’ GroupGenius three-step starter kit.
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From Campus to Community: UTC Links Innovation Across Spheres
Panelists from UTC’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) share their approach to spreading entrepreneurship across education, research, and the community.
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Demystifying the Future with Foresight Scouts®
Learn to embrace strategic foresight by looking to the future for innovative solutions in a three-week virtual cohort experience, Foresight Scouts®.
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Biomimicry: A Sustainable Design Thinking Approach
The market is full of short-term success. Biomimicry can lengthen and strengthen the life of your products and services with sustainable practices.
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Success over Complexity: Insights from a Marine Lieutenant Colonel
Your business may have more in common with the Marine Corps than meets the eye. Learn how to succeed over complexity with insights from Lieutenant Colonel John Giannella.
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How to Stay Culture-Conscious: A Check-Up
Unattended culture leads to underperforming businesses. Read as Perry Anne Scott shows what separates two business cultures: a winning and a failing culture. Don’t leave your company culture to chance. Engineer a culture that wins!
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5 Key Customer Experience Practices to Put into Action
The race to own customer experience is on! Read as Kenco CCO David Hauptman shares his insights on the importance of innovating and managing CX and his recommendations for success.
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Why your CX Strategy Needs the Value Proposition Canvas
We introduce the Value Proposition Canvas, a simple but high-impact business tool from Strategyzer made for boosting CX strategy.
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Multiplying Leaders: How the Best Leaders Create Leaders
Join Founder & CEO of CoThryve, Blake Bozarth, to hear insights that will help your organization advance on its maturity model for developing leaders.
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Tips for Launching Effective Strategy Design
"The pandemic has rewritten rules and upended assumptions, all while diminishing—or threatening to diminish—existing revenue streams," notes McKinsey in a recent report. Strategy Design will need to go beyond a SWOT & competitor analysis to address this level of disruption.
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