by Julie Austin | Oct 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
People love the tradition and rituals of holidays. It’s a comfortable time of doing something we’ve always done year after year, and usually involves family and friends getting together for a structured event. It’s a time when the uncertainty of life...
by Julie Austin | Jun 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was pleased to be the innovation keynote speaker recently at the Rocky Mountain Home Care Conference in Beaver Creek. The topic “Turning Your Employees Into Problem Solvers” was well received by a packed crowd of people in the home care and hospice...
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 | Mar 6, 2017 | Inventing, Uncategorized
At a recent innovation keynote speech I gave to Fortune 500 women executives, sponsored by Cognizant Technology Solutions, we examined some of the reasons fewer than 19 percent of all patents in the world are secured by women. This isn’t patents held by a single...
by Julie Austin | Dec 3, 2015 | Innovation
For the past five years I’ve worked with corporations and associations as an innovation keynote speaker. The speeches are very interactive with the audience, with games and improv, so no two are ever the same. I’ve worked with children’s...