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Lee Ambrose is a recently retired Army Commander and Apache Pilot. He served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to include the initial invasion of Iraq, both surges, and the mission that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein. He commanded small and large organizations as a Captain, Major, and Lieutenant Colonel. He recently retired to the Atlanta area with his family and is the Director of Military Programs at International Display Consortium.
Read MoreAs a member of Bridge's sprint team, Hannah Lancaster has experience in facilitating design thinking sprints, foresight scouts sprints, innovation jams, and nonprofit strategy sprints. She has also completed Bridge's strategic agility leadership series encompassing business insights, creative problem solving, and design change. Consistent with her commitment to social impact, she has served as a team member with the student Bright Spark™ design challenge.
Read MoreBob Hughes spent nearly 30 years in the United States Army, retiring in 2015 at the rank of Colonel. During his time in the Army he had the privilege to lead numerous teams and organizations at the tactical, regional and enterprise levels. With a strong desire to help other leaders be successful, in 2015 Bob began his second career as Clinical Faculty and Managing Director of Executive Education at The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In 2020, Bob moved to Chattanooga and continues to help other leaders through teaching and coaching.
Read MoreMichael Graber is the founder and managing partner of Southern Growth Studio, now known as Epic Pivot. For over 20 years, Michael has helped more than 250 organizations embed innovation departments and successfully commercialize innovations. After rebranding, he focused his company's mission on leading privately held companies through purposeful transformations.
Read MoreTraditional leadership models are no longer effective in our time of constant change and disruption. Leaders must respond to volatility with a value-based leadership model. In addition, leaders must recognize how diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is central to the future success of their organization.
Read MoreFrom fourth graders to corporates, roughly 2,500 participants have benefitted from SHiFT – a location inspired program that uses the design process to create innovations through workshops and community projects. The same unique elements that ignite innovation at SHiFT can build greater creativity in your teams.
Read MoreJasmin Espy, director of the Small Business Development Center at Prairie View A&M, led a cohort of minority entrepreneurs through Bridge’s Entrepreneurial Growth Sprint to help them achieve a growth strategy and business model canvas.
Read More2022 is the year of L&D and talent management. If you don’t have a strategy for business growth through the growth of your employees, take some notes from Unum’s VP of L&D. Learn how to spark your own learning revolution, starting with a strong support model and a few key focus areas.
Read MoreYou don’t need to be a designer to practice design thinking. Dan Parkinson, Commercial Director from Sprintbase, shares how organizations are leveraging the platform to achieve new outcomes, build capability, and change cultures on a daily basis—regardless of proficiency.
Read MoreWe know it’s not easy to prepare for evolving industry trends—but it is possible. Read how U.S. Xpress tackled supply chain issues by practicing strategic foresight.
Read MoreProject Return addresses a defining dilemma of our time—mass incarceration. Learn how the leading nonprofit innovator achieves reentry success and low recidivism with a whole-person approach to social enterprise.
Read MoreTo prepare for an emergent design future, we must look to the past. Michael Baskin, Chief Innovation Officer, discusses evolving design thinking towards public sector justice.
Read MoreLeave behind groupthink for a transformed approach to facilitating collaboration and innovation with Rob Evans’ GroupGenius three-step starter kit.
Read MorePanelists from UTC’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) share their approach to spreading entrepreneurship across education, research, and the community.
Read MoreLearn to embrace strategic foresight by looking to the future for innovative solutions in a three-week virtual cohort experience, Foresight Scouts®.
Read MoreThe market is full of short-term success. Biomimicry can lengthen and strengthen the life of your products and services with sustainable practices.
Read MoreYour business may have more in common with the Marine Corps than meets the eye. Learn how to succeed over complexity with insights from Lieutenant Colonel John Giannella.
Read MoreUnattended culture leads to underperforming businesses. Read as Perry Anne Scott shows what separates two business cultures: a winning and a failing culture. Don’t leave your company culture to chance. Engineer a culture that wins!
Read MoreThe race to own customer experience is on! Read as Kenco CCO David Hauptman shares his insights on the importance of innovating and managing CX and his recommendations for success.
Read MoreWe introduce the Value Proposition Canvas, a simple but high-impact business tool from Strategyzer made for boosting CX strategy.
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