Hitting Home Runs: What Baseball Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Webinar Best Practices Idea Management

What can the historic 1969 victory of the New York Mets teach us about corporate innovation? This webinar features hard-hitting innovation insights from Len Ferman – acclaimed author, academic, and founder of Ferman Innovation. Drawing on the lessons derived from the great American pastime, the webinar covered Len’s powerful methodologies for championing innovation leadership to create a culture of change. 

What Will You Learn?

What leadership qualities promote optimal ideation

How to leverage facilitator talents to guide the innovation process 

Techniques for sustaining a productive innovation culture

Webinar Speakers

Len Ferman
Author and Founder of Ferman Innovation

In 2019 Len published a college textbook, “Business Creativity and Innovation: Perspectives and Best Practices”, which is now being used at several universities.  His consulting company, Ferman Innovation, deploys the techniques from the book to help companies generate and evaluate ideas to attract new customers, delight existing customers and identify strategic initiatives.  

Steve Reed
VP of North American
Innovation

Based out of Dallas, Steve helps companies develop, launch and scale innovation programs. He leads digital innovation solutions in North America at Qmarkets, the leading provider of enterprise innovation management software.

Webinar Schedule

This webinar covers a number of bases regarding leadership and innovation management. Whether you are about to start a new innovation project, or looking to improve the ROI average of an existing initiative, this is a webinar you don’t want to miss!

00:44
Introduction
08:48
Development of the Creativity and Innovation Course
11:38
Lessons from 1969
44:36
Q&A Session

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