Progressive and practical professionals from news media companies across the Midwest and the U.S. will gather in Kansas City, Missouri, Sept. 10 at the Midwest Newspaper Summit 3. The event, themed Newspaper Evolution: Make Change Happen, will feature a unique hands-on, learn-by-doing platform, using Midwest Newspaper Summits held in September 2009 and February 2010 as its springboard.
Attendees will make a commitment to implement a new Innovation Project at their newspaper following the Summit and share the results with other event participants.
Prior to breaking into groups to work on Innovation Projects, attendees will be motivated by a kick-off address by Sarah Miller Caldicott, a great grandniece of Thomas Edison. Miller Caldicott has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life. Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, she began her 25-year career as a Marketing executive with major brand-driven firms including Quaker Oats and Unilever.
Concerned that America was losing its competitive edge just as the new millennium dawned, Miller Caldicott spent three years researching Edison’s innovation methods at Rutgers University. She co-authored a groundbreaking book offering a first-ever analysis of Thomas Edison’s world-changing processes. Entitled Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success, the book reveals how individuals, teams, and organizations can adopt Edison’s timeless innovation methods to create competitive advantage today.
Innovate Like Edison has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Small Business, USA Today, and Investor’s Business Daily. Miller Caldicott has appeared as an innovation expert on PBS television, CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” the Fox Business Network, and NPR. Innovate Like Edison serves as a textbook at leading universities including Northwestern University, the McCormick School of Engineering, Arizona State University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Miller Caldicott serves as spokesperson and host of the annual Edison Awards®, which recognize today’s top Innovators and Innovations. As Chairperson of the Edison Awards Steering Committee, she oversees the selection of innovative offerings in 11 categories.
An award-winning speaker, Miller Caldicott inspires audiences around the world with her message about how to use Edison’s timeless innovation methods both at work and in our personal lives today. She has served as a keynote speaker for Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Coldwell Banker, Hewitt Associates, the American Marketing Association, the Society of Human Resource Managers, the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Chicago Executive Learning Exchange, Northwestern University and many other organizations.
Miller Caldicott is president of her own Chicago-based consultancy, The Power Patterns of Innovation. Power Patterns offers guidance to companies of all sizes on how they can create an innovation success in the global economy. Her clients include Microsoft, Motorola, DHL, Hewitt Associates, and Coldwell Banker among many other firms. |
