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Karen Maples: 5 Steps to Jumpstart Innovation

Karen is an expert who helps companies innovate. She is the co-creator of a model called: the Pursuit of Uniqueness, which provides businesses a pathway to innovation. At the core of her model is a method that she’s going to share: the 5 Steps to Jump Start Innovation.

As difficult, competitive, and turbulent as it is in today’s business environment, there is one key to creating wealth and opportunity. INNOVATION. But the 21 C adds more complexity to the ongoing challenges to increase performance, to keep up at the leading edge of technological advances, and to guide your business enterprise to higher degrees of differentiation to compete better, faster, cheaper?

Innovation is not an accident. Today’ we’ll introduce you to a professional and a process with a proven tool that consistently gets results for creative and innovative breakthrough performance. Discover the secrets of sustained growth of some of the fortune 500 companies and successful small businesses that keeps them building and maintaining their competitive advantage.

You’ll think and be prepared to manage the future more effectively today. You’ll be better equipped than ever to plan and implement growth, leadership, and innovation strategies.

Michaela Walsh: Women’s World Banking & Micro Entrepreneurship--A Transformational Model

Michaela Walsh served as President of WWB from 1980 to 1990. She was the first woman manager of Merrill Lynch International and serves on the Boards of Directors of several organizations including the Synergos Institute and WorldWide, and as a member of the Advisory Board to the Overseas Development Council, the World Resources Institute, the Energy and Education Study Institution, and USAID. She is a member of many institutions which support and encourage the advancement of women in the economy and environment. Michaela also founded the Global Student Leadership Program (GSL) in NY. The program was initiated to train young women and inspire them to take up leadership for global gender equity in different aspects of life.

Michaela Walsh, founder of Women’s World Banking (WWB), and the Global Student Leadership Program. Women’s World Banking is a leading non-profit microfinance network based in New York that provides financial services to more than 23 million low-income clients in 30 countries world-wide, to improve their living conditions, keep their families, fed, healthy, educated and secure.

WWB is a global network of 53 microfinance institutions and banks and it is based on the idea of lending small sums of money to the poor—particularly women—to start businesses as the path out of poverty. WWB has as its purpose: Being a force for economic advancement of women throughout the world, promoting economic development, fighting poverty, and changing the world through facilitating women’s leadership.

The Nobel Committee’s Economics award announcement for the Grameen Bank stated: “Economic growth and political democracy cannot achieve their full potential unless the female half of humanity participates on equal footing with the male.” Women’s World Banking has a 98% repayment rate and an exponential impact in the community by improving children’s education, health care, and family housing. It’s no secret that loans to women prove highly effective.

But given the statistics of 29,000 children dying daily from malnourishment and treatable diseases, 340 million women around the world not expected to survive to age 40, and 1.8 billion people living on less than a $1 a day with 70 percent of them women, the work has only just begun. There are an estimated 500 million low income entrepreneurs in the world and only 5 % have access to credit.

Marie C. Wilson: Making a Difference in the World and in Your Corporation or Business--Ms. Foundation and The White House Project

An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie C. Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of the Leadership(Viking 2004).

In 1998, Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership. Before she took the helm at The White House Project, Wilson was, for nearly two decades, the President of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She is an honorary “founding mother” of the Ms. Foundation. In honor of her work, the Ms. Foundation has created The Marie C. Wilson Leadership Fund.

"The Ms. Foundation is filled with social entrepreneurs with a practical eye on today and a vision for tomorrow. It takes on issues that directly affect women’s lives—economic development, safety, and reproductive health, for instance—which is why we knew we had to have substantial numbers of women on top in America to help women at all levels... The White House Project mission is to advance women’s leadership in every sector, up to and including the presidency, changing society from a system built on the labor of women to be led equally be their vision."

She makes the case that a woman’s agenda is about transformation, quoting, Sally Helgesen, in The Female Advantage, that women see their work as: "Encompassing a vision of society—they relate decisions to their larger effect on the role of the family, the American education system, the environment, even world peace . . . They feel they must make a difference not just to their companies, but to the world."

And research proves it works. Management consultants promote and teach the transformational practices of women because it’s just good business practice. They are more inclusive, encourage diversity, expand participatory democracy, and focus commitments that benefit the whole community making politics more relevant.

Margaret Wheatley: Leadership for the Future

Meg Wheatley, author, organizational development expert and founder of the Berkana Institute, teaches leaders and businesses how to exponentially increase corporate results globally. Dr. Margaret J.Wheatley is president of The Berkana Institute, and an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer with a doctorate from Harvard. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973. "Leadership and the New Science" was first published in 1992, and has been translated into 17 languages. "Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time", was published in January 2005.

Business mirrors life, rich in potential for new possibilities. Like nature, business evolves cyclicaly like the spiral-shaped hurricanes, galaxies, star clusters, the unfurling fern leaf, and the nautilus shell. Closed systems—like mechanical watches, wind down and decay. Command and control business leadership is coming to an end.

A living system behaves in partnership its environment in order to preserve itself and grow. Likewise, a business thrives in partnership with its environment. Openness to the environment does not invite unpredictability, it strengthens and stabilizes our business by drawing on the power of our mission and purpose. This openness creates a stronger system making it more autonomous and resourceful and less susceptible to exogenous forces of change.

This co-evolution between the business system and its environment mirrors the quantum world where everything depends on this relationship between actor (business) and the context (environment). Chaos theory and quantum physics are being applied to business in ways that are creating a shift in management practices.

What we learn about business from this new science is that a critical mass or small changes amplified through networks accelerate change and increases capacity. Neural network theories demonstrate how the flow of information and unusual connections are the source of innovation, efficiency, effectiveness, and optimization.

Andrew J. Sherman, ESQ.: Treasure Hunting - intellectual property
Interview 2 - business planning

A featured speaker on dozens of national TV and radio shows, Andrew Sherman is a partner in a Washington D.C. law firm and an authority on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth using franchising, licensing, partnerships, and other methods to leverage your business. Andrew has advised over 500 companies from mid-sized organizations to multi-billion-dollar global conglomerates. He is author of 14 books and over 100 articles about business growth. He is an adjunct professor at 3 universities, serves on numerous professional advisory boards, and is founder of Grow Fast Grow Right, an education and training company for executives.

Discover how to grow your business by turning it inside-out searching for hidden resources. He’ll then show us how to build relationships in the business community both formally and informally—by volunteering on advisory boards and negotiating licensing agreements, joint ventures, and partnerships.

‘There is no more important asset than a company's intangible assets,’ says Sherman. ‘So I sit down with small companies and take inventory. A lot of the time they don't know what great assets they're sitting on.’ CEOs say that it’s like finding change under the sofa pillow." (Fortune Small Business, 2002)

Garret LoPorto: the DaVinci Method--An Entrepreneur's Handbook. Discover Your Secret Power of Your Entrepreneurial Personality

Garret Loporto has been featured in The New York Times, Money Magazine, the Boston Globe and The London Financial Times. He is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, presenter at MIT, a US and international patent-pending inventor, and father.

What is a DaVinci? DaVinci’s are the change agents of society. They are the world’s greatest leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, inventors, revolutionaries, and rock stars. They are also risk-takers, rebels, and ADHDers. DaVincis are the ones who know first, who sense trends the earliest.

Garret will discuss the genetic predisposition of DaVinci’s and recent EEG discoveries of the four brainwave states: Alpha, Beta, Theta, and Delta. Garret shares his methodology to recognize the traits within yourself and others and to use these natural abilities to your highest potential. Be more forgiving of yourself, give up the fear and give in to your inner genius. Be more spontaneous to express the fire and learn to harness it for productivity.

Learn What Successful Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Geniuses, Mavericks, Artists & Inventors All Have in Common.

NFTE: Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: Keeping kids in school and starting up their own business Julia Kantor, Patty Alper, Brien Biondi

Through entrepreneurship education, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Since 1987, NFTE has reached more than 330,000 young people, and currently has programs in 21 states and 14 other countries. NFTE has more than 4000 certified teachers, and is continually improving its innovative entrepreneurship curriculum. NFTE inspires kids to stay in high school, go to college, and awakens the gifted entrepreneur within by showing them a viable path into prosperity, economic independence, and positive appreciation and participation in a larger community.

Meet Julie Kantor, Executive Director of NFTE and author of, “I Said Yes”—real life success stories of students, teachers, and leaders saying yes to youth entrepreneurship. “I Said Yes” tells stories of entrepreneurship for inner city youth, giving them hope and the option for real, sustained economic and substantive change in their lives and for their communities, working collectively with teachers, business leaders. Students across America and in 14 countries world-wide map out the route to financial freedom through entrepreneurial training.

Patty Alper, Chief Executive of the Alper Portfolio Group, inspired by seeing lives transformed with real world results, collaborated with NFTE to create Adopt-A-Class with its vision for a more powerful community.

Brien Biondi, is a seasoned “road warrior” for entrepreneurship, providing powerful leadership through CEO--Chief Executives Org., YEO—Young Entrepreneurs Org., WEO--World Entrepreneurs Org., and YPO--Young President’s Org., and supports NFTE and second-stage entrepreneurs throughout this country and in numerous regions around the world.

The Late Professor C.K. Prahalad: Author: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Internationally recognized as a specialist on corporate strategy and top management in multinational corporation, he was professor at the University of Michigan Business School and served on the boards of international corporations and institutions. He was named among the top ten management thinkers of the world for over ten years, and a best selling author of several books.

Prof. C.K. Prahalad created a revolutionary corporate methodology transforming how business is conducted in developing countries. He turned poverty on its tip from being a burden at the bottom of the pyramid to being a source of wealth. Prof. Prahalad discussed the role of consumer needs in poor societies and commercial opportunities for the private sector to serve important public purposes while enhancing the bottom line. His practical approach gave us the strategies for eradicating poverty through profits that benefit all. New and creative approaches are needed to convert poverty into an opportunity for profit.

We dedicate this intherview to C.K. Prahalad

Ela Bhatt, SEWA in India: Full Economic Citizenship—Empowerment in India

Our guest is a world leader dedicated to empowering the poorest, most marginalized women in the world. You’ll meet Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, which grew from 4900 members in 1972, to over 700,000 today. Ela is author of the Oxford Univ. Press book, “We Are Poor But So Many,” and she is a global pioneer and entrepreneurial force at the grassroots level. Ela became a lawyer and then a social worker before becoming chief of the women's section of the Textile Labor Association in Ahmedabad in 1968. She learned first hand the suffering of poor self-employed women in the city in Southeast Asia. In 1972, she established the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). Ela was nominated by the President of India to be a member of the Indian parliament from 86-89, and member of the Planning Commission of India from 89-91. Ela has been chairperson and founding member of the Women's World Banking since 1980

The self employed of India, account for 93% of the labor force—350 million workers, in which 94% of the sector are women. But the self employed are invisible, and worse. They were exploited, underpaid, overworked. Because they are invisible, it might be hard at first for us to draw the connections between our informal labor sector in North America, but sometimes similar conditions exist here at home.

Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA, enabled over 700,000 women to become financially independent and therefore economically and politically empowered. Ela helped the women organize and provided them with micro credit loans helping them to save and to become financially independent. Today, SEWA Cooperative Bank has $1.5 million in working capital, 30,000 depositors, and 94% loan repayment rate.

Jerry Sternin: The School of Uncommon Sense—Acting your way into a new way of thinking vs. thinking your way into a new way of acting

Jerry Sternin, from Tufts University, former assistant dean at Harvard Business School in Boston, and former Save the Children and Peace Corps director, heads the Ford Foundations Positive Deviance Initiative—you might call it “The School of Uncommon Sense”. I’m quoting from the Harvard Business Review published on the Sternin’s work; “Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find these areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.”

Now, I quote Lao-tzu: “Learn from the people, Plan with the people, Begin with what they have, Build on what they know Of the best leaders, When the task is accomplished, The people all remark, We have done it ourselves.”

Jerry and Monique spent a life-time working in the world’s difficult places unraveling some of the world’s most intractable human and corporate problems: malnutrition, school drop out, trafficking of young girls, HIV/AIDS, and female circumcision. They also studied corporations with extraordinary positive deviations in sales performance.

Jerry answers the question: How did you uncover such unconventional wisdom that anyone can learn radical ways to improve their own, or their enterprises’ performance? “People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.”

Seth Kahn: Building Beehives: The Power of Story to Create Success

Seth has over 25 years leading people to the frontier of collaboration. He is a popular keynote speaker and consultant to over 250 executives and 60,000 professionals. He has lead workshops for world class organizations international organizations, businesses and associations. Seth has special expertise in the field of storytelling. He has been a performance artist since 1978 and regularly teaches leaders how to tell stories that motivate and engage.

Based on his book of the same name, Seth shows us a new way to see management and the world. People produce results--the honey--from their knowledge, experience, and relationships with strategic stakeholders including colleagues, clients, management, and the community. Participation--is the hive.

So how do you fast track results and engage your people? Work together. Get Results. Tackle the toughest problems. Create solutions.

Stay tuned as Seth guides us through the process of building successful stakeholder involvement, collaboration techniques, and how to create teams that build healthy businesses. Discover the ten steps to creating high performance business teams or communities and ten ways to bring meetings to life—taken directly from his book, “Building Beehives: Creating Communities That Generate Returns”. He’ll open up his toolbox to make it easy for you to make presentations and to help others in your business or community develop their’s.