Julie Holmes is an inventor and entrepreneur who combines 25+ years of real-world corporate sales & marketing experience with the pragmatism that comes from bootstrapping her own companies.
Julie Holmes’s Speech Topics:
Julie has over 20 years of corporate experience in Enterprise Software and, as such, has worked with virtually every industry there is. She is adept at delivering examples and stories that reflect the audience and inspire them. What all have in common is the desire and ability to think differently and take actions (small or large). Her ideal event is LARGE CONFERENCES with >500 attendees; she is a confident big stage speaker.
Julie delivers a combination of thought-provoking ideas, research, case studies and examples as well as personal observations and stories. In addition to her engaging style, Julie’s programs typically have a common deliverable element: she helps everyone in the audience to develop their own innovative ideas DURING the talk so they walk out with something personal and specific that they can do immediately to add value to their business.
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Innovation Exposed – The Six Strategies Companies Use to Get Ahead and Stay that Way
Your competition is moving FAST. And you have new competitors entering the market all the time. In fact, your customers have more choices every single day. So, what are you doing to keep up, stand out and get ahead? Innovation is critical for your business to survive but all that takes time, resources and a budget the size of a small country. And even if you had all that, what could you do? You can’t turn out new products any faster! Take a deep breath and get out your notepad – it’s time to master the six strategies that ALL innovative companies use to get ahead and stay that way. You’ll be able to react quickly, pivot on demand and spot new opportunities on the horizon once you know and leverage this secret sauce. And the best part is that you get to reuse these strategies again and again to continually differentiate and dominate.
Program Results:
- Increase revenue when you deliver new, profitable offerings to customers consistently by leveraging key innovation generation tools
- Reduce cost by applying a critical innovation strategy to your processes – and empowering your people to find and fill the gaps
- Grow your customer lifetime value and increase customer retention when you
- deliver innovative solutions to the fringes of their experience
- Save time for yourself and everyone else in the organization by creating an innovation plan that effectively capitalizes on the six D.E.T.A.I.L. strategies
Think Like an Inventor The Mindset and Motivation to Spot Opportunities, Take Initiative, & Embrace Change
“It’s not my problem.” “It’s not my job.” “I wouldn’t know where to start.” “I can’t.” “I won’t.” “I quit.”
Imagine inventors saying these kinds of phrases. What if those inventors STOPPED thinking, creating and solving? Terrifying, right?!
But this is exactly what’s happening in YOUR teams, organization and maybe even in your own mind every single day. Whether it’s problem-solving around product development, improving customer service, a time-saving process that leads to better productivity or trying a different way to attract and retain employees –thinking like an inventor changes the game for all of these and so much more!
Finding opportunities to “invent” starts with just one little word and it ends with collaboration, teamwork and an attitude of ownership. Learn how you and your organization can turn the tables on your performance by simply knowing how to think like an inventor.
This keynote engages and enlightens while empowering your people with the kind of thinking that creates solutions (and an attitude) that is truly inspiring. We’re all inventors at heart; some of us just don’t know it yet!
Program Results:
- Personal initiative will soar when you learn the secret to spotting any problem or opportunity waiting to be solved
- Increase that sense of ownership by understanding how invention is fun, easy and (almost always) free
- Inspire an unlimited supply of ideas and opportunities when you see the world through inventors’ eyes
- An audience that is eager to learn for the rest of the day and the rest of their lives
Others:
That’s a Bright Idea Find, Evaluate and Develop Ideas with Impact When You Unleash Your Commercial Creativity
