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DESCRIPTION:The Technology and Engineering Management Chapter of Silicon Va
 lley is hosting this event below and has invited our Chicago Section\, WIE
  Chicago\, YP Chicago and Consultants Network to attend. The event will be
  available online.\n\nTechnology and Engineering Management Chapter\n\nAch
 ieving Organizational Sustainability Through Innovation and Leadership (hy
 brid event)\n\n— focus on your company\, avoiding distractions\, pilotin
 g best ideas\, growing capabilities\, leadership …\n\nSpeakers: Leslie M
 artinich\, founder\, Competitive Focus (and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer) a
 nd Dr. Karen Koepp\, founder and CEO\, Koepp Research Corp.\n\nLocation: S
 unnyvale\, CA (and on the Internet)\n\nDate/time: Thursday\, January 11\, 
 2024\, 8:30 PM (Central Time)\n\nCost: Online: free.\n\nInfo and Registrat
 ion: https://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organizational-sustainability/\n\nSummar
 y: True institutional sustainability means effective technology management
 \, including finding opportunities\, gaining executives’ buy-in\, and mo
 ving forward with our best ideas. It is important to avoid distractions (f
 inancial concerns\, internal power struggles\, finding the “big idea”)
  so we don’t overlook opportunities around us. We should enact the leade
 rship capable of piloting our organization to success\, to ensure that our
  capabilities are keeping pace with market realities and emerging opportun
 ities. To achieve the goal of business sustainability\, we need to tap int
 o the genius of each employee for new product ideas and then provide the l
 eadership that fosters the trust and collaboration needed to bring those i
 deas to fruition.\n\nLearning Objectives:\n\n-- Discover the three hidden 
 barriers to sustainability that hamper organizations.\n\n-- Learn four ste
 ps for activating employees to identify emergent opportunities.\n\n-- Take
  away five principles leaders can implement to support sustainable innovat
 ion.\n\n“Leslie’s keynote on innovation clarified and focused my under
 standing of innovation and how our team needs to move forward.”\n\n-Kenn
 eth McIntyre\, Vice President of Grid Planning and Operations\, ERCOT\n\n
 “Karen is simply amazing! Her support and coaching completely transforme
 d my life\, my education\, and my business. Her framework works and she’
 s helped 100s of people like me.”\n\n-Dr. Brian Harman\, Professor &amp; Spe
 aker on Workplace Trust\, Career &amp; Leadership Development Coach\, BM Hallm
 ark\n\nMore information: https://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organizational-susta
 inability/\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/398925
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/398925
ORGANIZER:b.banerjee@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:11
SUMMARY:Achieving Organizational Sustainability Through Innovation and Lead
 ership
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/398925
X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;
 &gt;The Technology and Engineering Management Chapter of Silicon Valley is ho
 sting this event below and has invited our Chicago Section\, WIE Chicago\,
  YP Chicago and Consultants Network to attend.&amp;nbsp\; The event will be av
 ailable online.&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;
 &lt;em&gt;Technology and Engineering Management Chapter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n
 &lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Achieving Organizati
 onal Sustainability Through Innovation and Leadership&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp\;(hybr
 id event)&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;
 &gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;mdash\; focus on your company\, avoiding distractions\, piloting bes
 t ideas\, growing capabilities\, leadership &amp;hellip\;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/
 p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;Speakers: Leslie Martini
 ch\, founder\, Competitive Focus (and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer) and Dr.
  Karen Koepp\, founder and CEO\, Koepp Research Corp.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;
 p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;Location: Sunnyvale\, CA (and
  on the Internet)&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNo
 Spacing&quot;&gt;Date/time: Thursday\, January 11\, 2024\, 8:30 PM (Central Time)&lt;
 u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;Cost:&amp;nbs
 p\;&lt;strong&gt;Online&lt;/strong&gt;: free.&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6
 148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;Info and Registration:&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a href=&quot;http
 s://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organizational-sustainability/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; r
 el=&quot;noopener&quot; data-saferedirecturl=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r
 6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organizational-sustainability/&amp;amp\;source=gmail&amp;amp\;
 ust=1704068851511000&amp;amp\;usg=AOvVaw1GC_hVHlgE7IlBh3hHHmz_&quot;&gt;https://r6.iee
 e.org/scv-tems/&lt;wbr /&gt;organizational-sustainability/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 \n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;: 
 True institutional sustainability means effective technology management\, 
 including finding opportunities\, gaining executives&amp;rsquo\; buy-in\, and 
 moving forward with our best ideas.&amp;nbsp\; It is important to avoid distra
 ctions (financial concerns\, internal power struggles\, finding the &amp;ldquo
 \;big idea&amp;rdquo\;) so we don&amp;rsquo\;t overlook opportunities around us.&amp;n
 bsp\; We should enact the leadership capable of piloting our organization 
 to success\, to ensure that our capabilities are keeping pace with market 
 realities and emerging opportunities.&amp;nbsp\; To achieve the goal of busine
 ss sustainability\, we need to tap into the genius of each employee for ne
 w product ideas and then provide the leadership that fosters the trust and
  collaboration needed to bring those ideas to fruition.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\
 n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;Learning Objectives:&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;
 &lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;
 nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\; -- Discover the three hidden barriers to sustainability that
  hamper organizations.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530
 MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\;-- Learn four steps for activat
 ing employees to identify emergent opportunities.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p cl
 ass=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\; -- T
 ake away five principles leaders can implement to support sustainable inno
 vation.&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&amp;
 ldquo\;Leslie&amp;rsquo\;s keynote on innovation clarified and focused my unde
 rstanding of innovation and how our team needs to move forward.&amp;rdquo\;&lt;u&gt;
 &lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Kennet
 h McIntyre\, Vice President of Grid Planning and Operations\, ERCOT&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;
 &lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo\;Ka
 ren is simply amazing! Her support and coaching completely transformed my 
 life\, my education\, and my business. Her framework works and she&amp;rsquo\;
 s helped 100s of people like me.&amp;rdquo\;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6
 148813532021165530MsoNoSpacing&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Dr. Brian Harman\, Professor &amp;amp\; S
 peaker on Workplace Trust\, Career &amp;amp\; Leadership Development Coach\, B
 M Hallmark&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;m_-6148813532021165530MsoNoSp
 acing&quot;&gt;More information:&amp;nbsp\;&lt;a href=&quot;https://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organ
 izational-sustainability/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; data-saferedirec
 turl=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?q=https://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/organizati
 onal-sustainability/&amp;amp\;source=gmail&amp;amp\;ust=1704068851511000&amp;amp\;usg=
 AOvVaw1GC_hVHlgE7IlBh3hHHmz_&quot;&gt;https://r6.ieee.org/scv-tems/&lt;wbr /&gt;organiza
 tional-sustainability/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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