INNOVATION: QUIET GAME CHANGERS FOR YOU™

10/21/20 HIGHLY INTERACTIVE ZOOM EVENT 4PM-6PM CT

Innovation is in high corporate demand today, both for cost cutting and pivots. Learn from the best.

JOHN NOTTINGHAM — HOW CEOs GROW INNOVATION

+1,300 PATENTS CREATING +$50B SALES. Including: Dirt Devil, Little Tikes, AXE, Dutch Boy, Swiffer Sweeper + Vac, Club Car Tempo Walk Golf Caddie, ThermoScan Ear Thermometer, SmartMouth, Medtronic CardioInsight Electrocardiographic mapping & many more.
John is Winner of EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Edison & DuPont Gold Awards.


ANNA CHENG CATALANO — HOW BOARDS GROW INNOVATION

BOARD DIRECTOR FOR: Appvion (applied innovation); Frontdoor NASDAQ); HollyFrontier (NYSE); Kraton (NYSE); Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ); & Co-Founder, World Innovation Network. She's a Women, Inc. “Most Influential Board Directors” and a NACD certified Board Leadership Fellow.


ANA DUTRA — CO-MODERATOR

Ana is CEO, Mandala Global Advisors: C-level business consulting in business growth in 30+ countries; NYSE, NASDAQ & private company Board Director; best-selling author & global Keynote Speaker.


ANDREA ZOPP — CO-MODERATOR

Andrea is CEO, World Business Chicago, driving inclusive economic growth in N.A.’s global business center; an experienced Board Director; Keynote Speaker; & a noted Subject Matter Expert (SME).


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QUIET GAME CHANGERS FOR YOU™: TRANSFORMING MEDIA TODAY

A video series based on the August 12, 2020 Zoom event from The HQ Companies.

Corporate and individual growth are highly correlated to the abundance and quality of three factors: law, finance, and media.

Media continues to decline in public confidence ratings. These videos capture the whys for the decline and the emerging solutions being generated by quiet game changers, including the ones featured here.

Click on an image to watch the MEDIA QUIET GAME CHANGER video.


Megan Kamerick on some of the reasons why public confidence is declining in media.

Jenn Brandel on why “listening first” generates more revenue than media's advertising model.

Note: Four more videos in this series are in progress.


KATHY GRAHAM LEADS PANEL ON DIGITAL CULTURE AT AICPA CONFERENCE JUNE 2019

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Kathy Graham was requested to moderate and direct a panel on Steps to powering a digital culture and mindset in the finance function: New approaches in building and developing your finance talent at the 2019 AICPA & CIMA National Conference in Las Vegas for the CFO TRACK of Finance Redefined—received high marks from attendees for presentation.

Would you like your finance functions to be among the over 80% who fail when implementing a digital transformation?

A digital transformation is a term that means “creating a new business and/or shareholder value by shifting a current business to the most up-to-date technologies.” It’s the latest rage and a big valid concern for many companies facing disruptors, potential or current.

The businesses and finance functions that have succeeded in implementing digital transformations share a number of key factors in common, which Kathy Graham and three CFOs from very diverse companies/industries discussed on June 13, 2019 at the AICPA ENGAGE conference in Las Vegas.

Read the full article.
Click to listen to the entire panel session PODCAST (MP3 audio file - 75 minutes).




KATHY GRAHAM'S OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS—PAST 10 YEARS

Kathy Graham designs and delivers workshops and keynote speeches on human capital for professionals through C-Suite.

  • Created a workshop that utilized gamification in 2015 to teach first time managers how to master new demands.
  • Designed Creating a Social Story, an interactive workshop for CFA Society Boston (2012), then CFA Society Chicago (2014) on utilizing social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) legally to enhance careers and company profiles.
  • Created Career Strategies for You, a highly rated career development workshop given from 2009-14 at top-tier university and business associations across the U.S. to audiences ranging in size from 50 to 200 attendees.
  • Chosen in 2013 as "Most Innovative Speaker" by Association Forum, a 4,000 membership Chicagoland organization, and asked to share tips on delivering more engaging presentations to its 400 association executives.
  • Crafted 2013 Money Smart Week™ program with Chicago Tribune finance writer Gail Marks Jarvis, sponsored by CFA Society Chicago, University of Chicago Alumni Club, and Northwestern University Kellogg—attracted over 200 professionals and CFA Society Chicago became a Money Smart Week™ Partner.
  • Engaged by CFA Society Boston, CFA Society New York City, and CFA Society Chicago to design and deliver Your Career Campaign™ workshops from 2009-11 to crowds of 200+ offering practical ways to reinvent careers.
  • Engaged by CFA Society Chicago to design Career Strategist individual sessions that sold out repeatedly and received the highest ratings during 2009 as personal effort to assist those impacted by Great Recession.
  • Delivered as a first day morning speaker Safe Sailing in Stormy Weather at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Ninth Annual Private Equity Conference in June 2009.