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Creative Sage™—What do we do, and why choose us? It’s time to think about Strategy, Creativity and Innovation in Business in entirely new, fresh and innovative ways… Our clients come up with winning Ideas, Management Processes, Products, Marketing Messages, and Services! Creative Sage™ offers your organization a maximum Return on Investment in Creativity and Innovation Optimization to solve any business problem. Is this you, your business, project team or nonprofit organization: • You’ve been a leader in your field or industry for years, and recently, there are more competitive companies taking over some of your market share—you need to recapture your competitive edge, but you’re running low on ideas. • You’re a C-Level executive or a department manager, and you sense a loss of employee morale, accompanied by a level of turnover and absenteeism that is costing your company too much time, talent and money—but you don’t know how to create an environment that attracts and retains top talent. • Many of your best employees or Board members are about to retire, or their terms of office are about to expire, and you need to develop systems to capture their knowledge and offer them a pre-retirement transition program—where do you start? • You’re an entrepreneur whose leading small-to-medium size business got off to a great start, but now you’re running out of new ideas for products and services to offer, and you don’t know how to kick-start your creative thinking to keep you business Number One in your customers’ minds. Or… • You’re an executive, entrepreneur or accomplished professional who wants to revolutionize retirement and redefine how you will make the transition from your current successful career to the life of your dreams. You have many interests, passions and a burning desire to make the world a better place, and you’ve got a wealth of knowledge and skills to contribute—but you don’t know how and where to start…yet you know that a “traditional retirement” is not right for you. Maybe you want to write a book, rediscover your inner artist, start a new business, or create a project that will make a real difference in the world. How do you navigate this transition? How will you make sure your vital new project and this new era in your life will be extraordinary? These are just a few of the problems that can be successfully addressed with new perspectives, creative thinking and innovation. Here’s the main problem: Most organizations need new ideas, services, processes and products to succeed and maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace. However, they rely on old, ineffective methods to generate new ideas and fail to break through to truly new and effective ideas and move forward. All too often, they fail to achieve payback for their innovation efforts and investment. Our Solution: A comprehensive, proven, best-practice approach for generating, managing and implementing great ideas—quickly, in a fun, energized way. Applications (just a few of many)—our Creative Sage™ cutting edge creativity and innovation solutions help you or your organization: • Develop new products and services, which may include setting up and managing teams in ways that foster innovation, or bringing in new team members that are optimally effective, able to roll out new products or services effectively and quickly. • Create new, imaginative and effective marketing, advertising and promotional campaigns that raise your organization’s profile to a new level in the marketplace, winning you more high profile visibility, clients, awards, investors and business development partners. • Design new programs and management processes that enable your organization to repeat breakthrough innovation on an ongoing basis, thereby staying competitive in regional, national and global markets. • In addition to group innovation methods, we offer executive coaching, mentoring and management consulting when needed, to enable maximum performance from each individual executive, manager and team member. An effective, innovative team is only as strong as the individuals within it. • We also offer pre-retirement and transition coaching to executives, entrepreneurs, authors, artists and accomplished professionals who want to experience a creative breakthrough and live the life of their dreams, at last—we help individuals innovate to be great and make a real difference in the world! Why our methods are unique, dynamic, and produce real results: • We have conducted thorough, global research into world-renowned and cutting edge creativity and innovation methods, and we utilize best practices from the most innovative experts and organizations around. • Our methods promote breakthrough innovations that are deep and new—not shallow and surface. • We have created and tested processes that are sustainable and repeatable. • We collaborate with leading innovation consultants and creativity experts from across numerous disciplines and countries, in addition to synthesizing our own, proprietary Creative Sage™ techniques—we customize our methods to your organization’s or individual needs. • Our comprehensive, whole-brain approach incorporates multiple perspectives that enable managers, employees and team members to think and visualize in new, creative ways. • Our processes are remarkable, dynamic, fun and energizing! Clients remember our methods and benefit from them years later. • Our methods go WAY beyond techniques that we know don’t generate lasting returns on investment, including outdated group brainstorming techniques, static strategic planning that is not whole-brain oriented, or methods that do NOT address the need for an optimized creative culture at all levels in organizations, and a way to repeat remarkable, breakthrough innovation. In short, we offer your team—or you, as an executive, entrepreneur or independent professional—extraordinary new methods and training to optimize creativity and sustain innovation. We don’t just show up for one workshop, coaching or training session and leave you hanging—we periodically check in with you to see how you’re doing…we help you maintain your creative momentum for maximum ROI. We continue to help you innovate to be great and retain your competitive lead in the marketplace. Proof—Just a Few Examples of Our Results: Creative Sage™ successfully: • Helped an established web design and animation company that was losing market share create new ideas and methodologies to sustain innovation and improve their teamwork skills; this resulted in a significant increase in business and the ability to stay competitive in the marketplace. • Coached executive staff and Board members from a major non-profit career counseling organization to develop creative new program ideas and initiate a strategic planning process, thus increasing the organization’s funding and attracting a record number of clients to the organization’s new programs. • Co-created and managed a state-of-the-art innovation training program for a start-up technology and brick-and-mortar company that included locating, interviewing and selecting top-tier advisors and developmental consultants representing hallmark innovation processes in workplace creativity; the client company garnered media attention and praise in the industry for its ground-breaking innovation program and training curriculum. • Trained managers and other employees in a department at a major U.S. bank to work together more effectively; the department significantly increased individual and team performance, employee morale, retention and results. Our Process: • We begin by deeply understanding your goals, mission, values, vision and organizational culture. • We assess the current state of idea generation and the environment for creativity and innovation at your organization. • We tailor our methods to your needs, using the most appropriate, cutting-edge, dynamic creative thinking and innovation processes designed specifically for your team. • We design, manage and implement the process, which includes setting and tracking goals and following up with your organization over time to ensure that results are ongoing, not just short-term. Contact us today to get started! Ask us questions. Call us in the San Francisco Bay Area (U.S.), or email us for a risk-free introductory meeting (by phone or in person). Subscribe to our dynamic, provocative e-letter, full of useful tips and great information. It’s free, and we don’t share your email address with anyone. You’ll only receive one or two informative messages per month. And for more news and ideas about creativity and innovation, keep reading our Blog, What’s Innovation got to do with it?: http://CreativeSage.wordpress.com and our Creativity and Innovation Notations blog: http://360.yahoo.com/CathrynHrudicka We help you innovate to be great! (And to stay great!) ******************************************************** Creative Sage™ developed as a branch from my flagship organization, Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, a public relations and marketing communications company. Many of our clients began asking me how I came up with so many creative and innovative ideas and concepts that really got results! Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates—Why Choose Us? We bring your message to the world, and the world to you! Got questions about your Public Relations or marketing campaign? Not sure how to get a higher level of visibility for your business, nonprofit organization, new book, performance or event? Need help writing copy for your newsletter, web site, PR & marketing collateral? Not sure how to do this New PR/Social Media thing? Need more help optimizing your Internet and Social Media outreach? We write, edit, or manage your entire project. We’ll coach you to do your own PR, marketing, fundraising and strategic planning. We can offer you our expert advice and extensive contacts in print, trade, broadcast, internet marketing and social media PR. We help you brand yourself as a leading expert in your field to attract top-tier clients, media and revenue. We bring your message to the world, and the world to you. You may be here because you want the copy or marketing collateral that will reach your audience and broadcast your message, loud and clear. At Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, we offer you: • A highly skilled business copywriter to conceptualize, write or edit your newsletter, business profile, brochure, artist bio, employee memo, white papers, press releases, e-letters, sales letters, web content, multimedia scripts, grants, annual reports, case studies and marketing collateral. We bring over twenty years of experience in senior management, sales, marketing, public relations, fundraising, event production, consulting, training and publishing to every writing project. • Project Management to save you time, hassles and money. We supervise or coordinate the production of your business and marketing collateral. If you’re with a large company, we’ll work seamlessly with your in-house designers and creative, communications, business development or marketing departments. • Training, mentoring or coaching. Learn how to strategize your overall marketing plan, public relations campaign, fundraising plan, start a newsletter, blog or e-letter and make all your business collateral work together, in print and online. We also do media coaching. We’ll tailor our training to you. • Small business owners, nonprofit managers, consultants, coaches, authors or artists, we’ll provide you the same high quality services that we provide larger companies at rates you can afford. We specialize in serving creative professionals and innovative organizations. • We are known for offering our clients innovative thinking, strategic planning, and exceptional results. We’re small enough to give you personalized service, yet we work with a team of top-notch associates who understand graphics and web design, audio, video, film and multimedia development. We can offer you the sophisticated services and results of a larger firm. See, hear and feel the difference! If you’re an editor or producer searching for content for your print or online publication, audio, broadcast or multimedia presentation, you’ll find articles and other samples in our portfolio (at our blog/websites, or email us, and we will promptly send you samples of our work.) Ask us questions. Tell us what’s keeping you up at night about your PR and marketing campaign, or what’s keeping you from getting visible as an expert, and why you’re not getting those great clients and the revenue that you deserve. Call us in the San Francisco Bay Area (U.S.) or email us for a risk-free introductory meeting (by phone or in person), or subscribe to our dynamic, provocative e-letter, full of useful tips and great information. It’s free, and we don’t share your email address with anyone. You’ll only receive one or two informative messages per month. Read more great tips and keep checking our blog, PR and Marketing Mentor, at: http://CathrynHrudicka.wordpress.com You’ll also want to read about why it is the Year of the Social Entrepreneur, and what we’re doing in our company to help forge new partnerships between businesses and nonprofit organizations—and what we offer nonprofits to help them make a big impact in the world, at: http://cathrynhrudicka.wordpress.com/year-of-the-social-entrepreneur/ Visit my new Squidoo lens, Changing the Context to Change the World: Innovation and Social Entrepreneurs, Nonprofits and Philanthropy, at: http://www.squidoo.com/CreativeSageSocialEntrepreneurship/ Sign up for our provocative, highly informative and fun company e-letters at our blogsites: http://CreativeSage.wordpress.com http://CathrynHrudicka.wordpress.com PLEASE NOTE: I strongly advise emailing me through one of my blogs or web sites if you want to contact me, rather than leaving a private message here. I am very busy and travel intermittently, so I'm much more likely to check my regular email quickly! THANKS. ******************************************************** Links to a few articles by or about Cathryn Hrudicka, Chief Imagination Officer/CEO of Creative Sage™/Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates: Interview with Cathryn Hrudicka on Creativity Portal, by Nancy Mills: http://www.creativity-portal.com/bc/nancy.mills/hrudicka.html National Novel Writing Month Q & A with Six-Time Winner Cathryn Hrudicka, by Tavia Stewart: http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=142 Living Life as a Spirited Woman: Making Time for Creativity, by Cathryn Hrudicka: http://www.thespiritedwoman.com/resources/spirited_woman_articles/index.html How to Tell Your Story Creatively to Stand Out from the Crowd, by Cathryn Hrudicka: http://webcontentawarenessday.com/articlepr6.htm Getting the Most out of Your Online and Offline PR, by Cathryn Hrudicka: http://webcontentawarenessday.com/articlepr2.htm ******************************************************** SPECIAL EVENT: Experimental Vocal Music by the Cornelius Cardew Choir The Cornelius Cardew Choir 7th Annual Fall Concert: Social Change through Music Experimental Works by Composers: Al Margolis: Xylo 2 for choir and gongs Marc Jensen: Patterns of Living and Sounding Tom Duff: Sonic Chains Tom Bickley: When Adam Delved and Eve Span All pieces include improvisations by members of the Cardew Choir Performers: Cathryn Hrudicka Sarah Rose Stiles Katherine Setar Marianne McDonald Brad Fischer Thea Farhadian Tom Duff Dave Cowen Nancy Beckman Bob Marsh (Co-Founder) Tom Bickley (Co-Founder and Director) Sunday 18 November 2007 7:30 p.m. Berkeley Art Center 1275 Walnut (Live Oak Park) Berkeley, CA 94709 $10 general admission Presented by Live Oak Concerts Marvin Sanders, Curator *********************************************************** I'll be posting updates regularly about my parallel career as an author, composer, sound designer and multimedia artist, and other important news—keep checking back! Feel free to sign my guest book while you're here! ********************************************************* Sign in to be able to view hrudicka's guestbook and friends list!
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