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As Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, I live a passionate personal mission to cause the spontaneous combustion of creativity, innovation, and compassionate intelligence everywhere!

At Creative Sage™, we help corporations, nonprofit organizations, professional associations, project teams, entrepreneurs, consultants, authors, artists, performers and others to create outstanding marketing strategies, communications, solutions, services and products. We design dynamic, cutting-edge innovation programs that are tailored to our clients' individual needs for maximum return on investment in innovation management.

We coach and mentor executives, and we also coach accomplished, creative professionals and their organizations to revolutionize the concept of "retirement" and create powerful new lives, projects and initiatives, including Social Entrepreneur projects and partnerships between corporations, nonprofits and philanthropists. We use highly creative and effective methods to help people in mid-life or at any age to navigate transitions in business or in life. We'll coach your inner innovator out of hiding...we help you innovate to be great!

Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates was our original company name, where we've focused on marketing communications, public relations, fundraising, performing arts presentation, and management consulting in the entertainment industry and nonprofit arts. Known for our innovative approaches and story angles, and our strategic capabilities, we have also served a variety of business and technology clients, including working in various capacities on multimedia and marketing projects for Fortune 500s, major universities, healthcare companies, environmental/sustainability, and trade associations. We've also added social media and Internet marketing and PR to our mix of services. We bring your message to the world, and the world to you.

» Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Slides from Nonprofits, Healthcare, and Social Media Keynote

I love watching people walk out of their way just to smell my neighbors’ beautiful roses. It’s time for me to walk out of my way & get lost.

» BBC NEWS | Americas | Bright ideas in the Wild West

The Ideas Festival…my kind of event!

Always great musicians dropping by to jam at the party we’re attending tomorrow. (Prev. tweet). You couldn’t buy a concert ticket this good.

Cool, we’re invited to Arhoolie Records Founder Chris Strachwitz’s fabulous 4th of July party: http://www.arhoolie.com/history/index.html

In a holiday mood, but need to get a lot of work done today. Beautiful day, would rather be joining @rabbitroodle and driving to Mendocino!

» Resources for Nonprofit Organizations

Impressive list of resources for forming and running your nonprofit organization.

» Job Search: Define Your Goals

Excellent tips from Aaron Brazell on Technosailor, about how a consultant managed to find a job after 17 years away from the corporate world, and why she decided to look for one…and how your job…

» Nonprofit Leadership 601

Nonprofit leadership blog that goes along with the nonprofit resources site in previous post.

Off to SVII—inside story on Silicon Valley intrapreneurship tonight from Stanford Media X Director Chuck House: http://tinyurl.com/52rf65

» How I Lost Almost 30 Lbs | Off Hours

A truly practical and helpful post from Geoff Livingston about how to lose weight. It’s that first 30 lbs. that are the hardest.;-)

Just got a note from my ISP: “Get your Internet from the Sun. We are now green.” Good to know. I feel warmer already. :-)

Reminder about Stanford’s Media X—get an inside story on Silicon Valley intrapreneurship tonight from Chuck House: http://tinyurl.com/52rf65