A perfect storm has arisen among business pressures, organizational priorities, and HR/TD maturity that offers HR/TD a pivot-point opportunity to transform – to jump-shift – its impact on overall business performance. That opportunity is to concentrate its internal functions and priorities on the most important, highest priority driver of business success today: being innovative. That driver can be actualized at the intersection of current CEO challenges and HR/TD priorities – as revealed by an analysis of global executive reports from Deloitte, KPMG, the Conference Board, the McLean Group, BCG, and others.

This evening's presentation will give you the opportunity to identify:
The top priorities for different types of innovation in your organization (across 5 distinct domains of innovation)
How innovation competencies are necessary for every employee, not just specialists
The innovation competencies and practices that you can strengthen with your own leaders, individual contributors, teams, and executives to enable innovation across those priorities

You'll also hear about the research that shows that good character and values are no longer "soft" issues, but the very foundation for people to be engaged to innovate at their highest potential.

In summary, you'll walk away with substantial insights and tangible ideas for enabling innovation across your organization -- and thereby jump shifting your impact, as a business partner, on business performance and industry leadership.

For the past 35 years, William has been serving corporate clients worldwide on the topics of leadership development, employee engagement, corporate culture, and change management through the lens of “enabling innovation” – doing things that are new, better or different.

William is co-founder of Values Centered Innovation, with a focus on building competencies for innovating across the organization, based on a foundation in good character and values. Formerly, he was head of Innovation Management at the Stanford Research Institute and Manager of Training and Development for Victor Equipment Company, the leading USA manufacturer of gas-welding equipment. He first joined ATD (ASTD) in 1975 as a training specialist at Blue Cross of Northern California.

William has been acclaimed multiple times by Leadership Excellence as among the top 30 thought-leaders worldwide on the subject of leadership. Two of his five books on innovation - The Creative Edge and Flash of Brilliance - have been rated among the top 30 business books of the year in the USA by Executive Book Summaries. William has also been a guest faculty member in the graduate schools of business at Stanford University and the University of Dallas.

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Meeting Agenda:

Registration opens at 5:30 pm

6:00 pm - 6:15 pm - Chapter announcements

6:15 pm - 7:15 pm - Program (1 hour)

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm - Q&A and prizes, Meeting Concludes

All "dinner" online reservations are due the Monday before the meeting by 5pm. Online registration for "dinner" will be closed at that time. Attendees not registered online will be considered Walk-In registrations and will be charged the "Attendee No Dinner" rate, $15.00