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Carol Pletcher

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dd Dr. Carol Pletcher is a seasoned executive and sought-after speaker with proven expertise in helping organizations create growth through innovation. Carol demystifies innovation and teaches how to tap it to create sustainable competitive advantage. With more than 25 years of experience leading innovation and change initiatives around the globe, Carol brings a real-world understanding of innovation practices that can be taught across an organization.  She has sophisticated knowledge of how to lead, communicate, collaborate, manage change and leverage an organization’s culture to achieve exceptional results. Owner of PLETCHER, INC., innovation and business consulting, Carol has been named one of the world’s top innovation champions by Business Week magazine.  Her presentations are engaging, interactive and filled with content that has immediate, concrete application within your organization.

Areas of Expertise:

Business
Change
Creativity 
Leadership

Fees:

Keynote up to 90 minutes:  $6,000

Half Day fee up to 3 hours:  $10,000

Full Day fee up to 6 hours:  $10,000

Carol's Most Requested Programs:  

Are You Innovating to Create Competitive Advantage and Growth?
The responsibility for ensuring the flow of innovation in your company is shared by all —executives, business leaders, project managers, and team members.  Carol will lead you in exploring how the tension between powerful and seemingly conflicting forces can cause bottlenecks in the flow of innovation. After attending this program you will understand how: 

  • The flow of innovation is connected to growth
  • Bottlenecks can constrict the flow of innovation
  • To open the constriction to improve the flow
  • What each person can do to enhance the flow of innovation 

Innovation Leadership Development
Many executives cite innovation as an important driver for growth, yet few of them explicitly lead or manage innovation. This presentation will help leaders learn how to explicitly lead innovation by exploring the important issues: 

  • How is innovation leadership similar to and different than organizational leadership?
  • Who in the company owns innovation?
  • How does one break the logjam of opinions to open the flow of innovation?
  • How does one motivate others to help them invigorate the innovation effort? 

Participants will develop their 3 part personal plan to enhance their innovation leadership:

  • “The Monday Morning Quarterback”
  • “This Quarter’s Results”
  • “Revenue Growth”. 

Getting Unstuck:  Generating New Ways to Look at Persistent Challenges
Perhaps you feel trapped and don’t know how to think differently about a business conundrum. You may want to create new insight but don’t know how. This 8-10 hour workshop is a fast way to develop and test solutions to specific business challenges. The workshop is customized for your issue and is organized into three modules: 

  • A unique experience designed to inspire new insight
  • An ideation session organized to brainstorm for new ideas
  • A review and evaluation of the newly brainstormed concepts that address the business issue 

Participants will learn new tools for developing new ideas and testing ideas with the highest potential for success.

Carol's Most Requested Keynotes:  

Opportunity in Crisis:  Unlocking Innovation as a Growth Strategy
“For centuries people assumed that economic growth resulted from the interplay between capital and labor. Today we know that these elements are out weighed by a single critical factor: Innovation.(Bill Gates, February 25, 2007, Washington Post).” Attendees will interactively explore the role of innovation in economic growth. Today companies and governments are facing new challenges and intractable problems This interactive keynote leads the participants in a discussion of What is the role of innovation in economic growth and What can we learn from leading technology states and leading companies. Attendees will then brainstorm ideas for their organization on how to unlock innovation. 

Open Innovation:  Enhancing the Potency of Ideas
Increasingly companies have become comfortable with the idea that there are useful ideas outside the organization’s boundary. At the same time, there has been an unanticipated level of collaboration among employees within many organizations. This keynote showcases some best practices in how to harness open innovation to improve business outcomes. In particular, the keynote will describe case studies on how companies are enhancing the potency of ideas with idea campaigns, internet websites, and external experts.

 

 

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