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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 24

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Encouraging Health Innovation

Our Feature Segment for this episode is a focus on something new from AARP. One of their emphasis areas, as it is for Senior Care Corner, is technology and specifically promoting the development of technology and innovation for older adults. A new initiative in this area was their inaugural Health Innovation@50 LivePitch, an event that didn’t get media attention commensurate with its importance to the seniors and caregivers of both today and tomorrow.

This event brought together ten companies, the best of eighty applicants, with health innovations for older adults and investors targeting the next big place to put their money. Each of the companies pitched their idea and answered questions from a panel of judges from the investment community, with the judges picking their top pitch at the end of the day.

In a twist that we really loved, AARP had the companies make a second set of pitches at the end of the day, but this time not to investors but to potential consumers, with the consumers selecting their own prize winner.

[Excerpt, click on the link to listen to the podcast, find out which companies were selected as the winning startups, and to read the rest of this post.]

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Summary:

Two days plus packed with meeting people, learning about current resources for seniors & caregivers and gaining insight into some health innovations — plus LOTS of walking…that pretty much summarizes the working part of our trip to AARP’s Life@50+ National Event. It was [recently] held in New Orleans.

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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, and we have participated in health care-related innovation projects.

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, to help you 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.

(Source: seniorcarecorner.com)