by Julie Austin | May 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last month I had the pleasure of being the innovation keynote speaker for the Southeast Michigan Fire Chiefs Association on “Fire Industry Leadership in the Age of Disruption”. It was an honor to be among so many heroes, and what I didn’t know is...
by Julie Austin | Mar 1, 2018 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Associations are a legacy business, like newspapers, and the TV industry. And they have all enjoyed many years of success without being challenged…until now. Early roots of associations could be found in craft guilds, churches, and trading groups. Guilds...
by Julie Austin | Dec 3, 2017 | Creativity, Leadership, Uncategorized
The creativity gap between management and employees keeps getting wider. As a creativity keynote speaker I’m hired to get employees excited about creativity and innovation. By the end of the speech, which is a combination of creativity education, fun creativity...
by Julie Austin | Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lately I’ve been hooked on the Weather Channel’s new show “SOS: How to Survive”, where survival expert Creek Stewart teaches innovative skills to help you survive in a dangerous situation. Each episode is about real people caught up in true...
by Julie Austin | Nov 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
When I ask people why we still have daylight savings time, most shrug their shoulders and say “I don’t know. That’s the way it’s always been done”. I hear this a lot as an innovation keynote speaker. Many times systems are put into place...
by Julie Austin | Nov 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
As a creativity keynote speaker, one of the things I talk about is serendipity, or finding something valuable that you’re not looking for. Scotch brand tape was one of those serendipitous ideas that was invented to solve one problem and ended up solving many...
