Speech Topics and Program Descriptions

Choose one of these themes for your next conference keynote, leadership seminar, workshop, or executive retreat!.
Sarah brings each topic to life through a blend of rich content delivery and interactive audience engagement: 

Turning onYour Light Bulb: How Edison's 5 Competencies of Innovation Build Competitive Advantage

• Learn how to think like an innovator and develop new market space
• Solve problems from multiple angles by developing new context and new questions
• Drive breakthroughs in team design and team communication
• Establish a culture of innovation that appeals to different generations of workers
• Adopt market-moving approaches to value creation and development of new business models

Innovate Like Edison: From Imagination to Innovation in the Digital Era

• Identify how to tap new resources for innovation success using virtual networks
• Learn why smart layers are better than hierarchies for innovation teams today
• Accelerate the adoption of dialogue and debate as a core team practice
• Acknowledge the realities of work style differences represented by Generation Y

Midnight Lunch with Thomas Edison: Unleashing the Innovation Power of Collaboration

• Learn why small, diverse teams are a crucial foundation for collaboration success
• Understand why teamwork and collaboration are not the same thing
• Drive rapid learning through questioning and experimenting
• Create new potential for inspirational leaders to emerge in your organization
• Adopt practices which allow you to develop collective intelligence around key projects

Innovation and the Technical Mind: Breakthrough Strategies from Thomas Edison

• Learn new methods for unleashing the creativity of technically-oriented workers
• Identify how technically-minded employees can work more collaboratively with others

Reskilling Your Workforce for Innovation Success

• Learn why workforce reskilling is crucial for innovation success in the coming decade
• Understand the meaning of reskilling and how to foster an environment where reskilling can flourish
• Recognize the linkage between reskilling and workforce engagement
• Identify the top 3 most crucial areas for reskilling and how to leverage them in a multi-generational workforce

A Day In Edison’s Laboratory: Exploring the Five Competencies of Innovation

• Understand how an innovation mindset, problem-solving, culture, team design, and value creation intersect
• Bring a current business challenge into this session, and use Edison's innovation tools to newly examine it
• Identify where key gaps in collaboration may be stalling your innovation efforts
• Complete an innovation assessment to determine where your team holds its greatest innovation strengths