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Nurse Innovators and Inventors

Feb 11, 2021 | Innovation, Inventing

Nurses are problem solvers. They are up close and personal with their patients and see them on a daily basis. They are able to notice slight changes in a patient's health since they spend so much time with them. So it makes sense that they would be able to invent...

What is Innovation?

Jan 4, 2021 | Innovation

If you ask 10 people "What is innovation?", you might get 10 different answers. As an inventor and innovator, my answer is "Any new idea that adds value". I know that's a little simple and broad. Innovation is putting those ideas into practice, and coming up with a...

7-11 Innovation

Nov 23, 2020 | Innovation

Just because a company is a big chain franchise doesn't mean they can't innovate. That's the case with the convenience store franchise 7-11. I knew when they bought my wrist water bottle product for their stores in Hawaii that they think outside the box. This is the...

The Future of Medicine

Nov 9, 2020 | futurism

The future of medicine seems to look like a sci-fi movie. In the movie "The Fifth Element" a woman was reconstructed from a scrap of DNA. Genetic information was used with a 3D printer to recreate her. That may seem like a work of fiction, but we are toying with some...

Innovation for Associations

Oct 28, 2020 | Innovation

After researching the association industry for my keynote speech for the .org Innovation Conference, I realized legacy industries like associations need to stay ahead of the curve as much as any other industry. Maybe even more. Just because someone has been in...

Disruption in the Meeting Industry

Oct 26, 2020 | disruption

Meeting planners have always had to think on their feet. With so many moving parts to a meeting, planners have to be prepared for anything that could possibly go wrong. Maybe that's one reason their job is one of the most stressful out there. Meeting planners always...

Inventor Madam C.J. Walker

Oct 19, 2020 | Inventing

They say that necessity is the mother of invention because it's one of the best ways to become an inventor. You need something that the market doesn't have. So you create it yourself. But when you invent a product for yourself it will most likely help others who have...

Creativity Over Productivity

Oct 7, 2020 | Creativity

Part of my innovation keynote speech is done as interactive improv. No matter how much companies might think they can do this on a Zoom call, it simply doesn't work nearly as well. The work from home trend is putting productivity over creativity and teamwork,...

Hire an Innovation Keynote Speaker

Sep 30, 2020 | Innovation

Meeting planners have a choice of hiring an expert who speaks or hiring an expert speaker. I always try to put myself into the shoes of the audience, and I would personally not be that interested in a speaker who hadn't actually done what they are speaking about. If I...