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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. Let's start a conversation!

~Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer, Creative Sage™/ Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates

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I'm honored to be a contributing author to the 2011 best-selling business book, A Guide to Open Innovation & Crowd Sourcing: Advice from Leading Experts, along with some of my innovation colleagues from #Innochat (Twitter Innovation chat and web site); edited by Paul Sloane, with a foreword by Henry Chesbrough. You can order it here: http://amzn.to/OI_CS
I co-wrote the chapter, "Building the Culture for Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing," with Gwen Ishmael and Boris Pluskowski — more information about all of the co-authors and the contents of this book at: http://bit.ly/OI_CS_Google

Sep 09

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In honor of Grandparents Day, which is Sunday (September 9th), we wrote: “Greying But Not Slowing Down: Grandparents and U.S. Economy,” and released it on The Intuit Network.

It covers the impact grandparents are making as consumers, care givers and members of the workforce.

For those not familiar with The Intuit Network, it’s a site that Intuit uses for both internal and external communication. They have channels on serving customers, innovation, values and growing their company.

The site has a ton of videos. Intuit always has interesting people visiting and they often film them. For example, there’s a full series of videos where Intuit Founder and Chairman Scott Cook interviews Lean Startup guru Eric Ries.

Great stuff that normally, you would need to be a big company employee to have access to it.

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From: Small Business Labs: Grandparents and U.S. Economy

Posted by Steve from Emergent Research

At Creative Sage™, we often coach and mentor individual clients, as well as work teams, in the areas of change management, making personal, career or organizational transitions, and facilitating collaboration capabilities. Statistics have shown that people over 50 are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs and leaders working for good causes, including serving on nonprofit boards, or starting their own organizations!

We guide and mentor executives, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals of all ages, to help them more effectively implement transition processes, and to become more resilient in adjusting to rapid changes in the workplace. We work with on-site and virtual teams. We’ll also help you boost your creativity, and commit to those creative projects you’ve always longed to complete!

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to discuss your situation. You can also call us at 1-510-845-5510 in San Francisco / the Silicon Valley. Let’s talk! An initial exploratory phone conversation is free. When you talk with me, I promise that I’ll always LISTEN to you with open ears, mind and heart, and help you to clarify your own unique path to a new vista of success, or an encore career.

~Cathryn Hrudicka, Founder, CEO and Chief Imagination Officer of Creative Sage™, Executive Coach and Mentor.