75% of professionals feel a lack of creativity in the workplace.
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Are you one of them? What if we told you that you can bring innovation to your workplace without changing the workplace, but by changing how you approach problems.
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Creative Jump will equip you, and early- to mid-career professionals, with the right tools and mindset to bring innovation to any workplace
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Are you ready to take the jump?
February 25-26, 2017
Presidential Innovation Fellow
The White House
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Amy J. Wilson is a user-centered product manager working at the intersection of communications and technology to solve complex challenges. Her career's trademark is deconstructing problems and spurring incentive thinking into collaborative action. Tackling problems with a left (usability/analytic) and right (design/ creative) brain mentality, she has 14 years experience shipping products with multiple government agencies, private companies, and non-profit clients.
Attorney, Small Business Consultant
Showell Ventures & Consulting PLLC
Skyler Showell is passionate about helping businesses start and grow. With his expertise
in law as an attorney, he has experience in law firms, startups, small business counseling, and investment funds as in-house counsel, chief legal executive, broker, and trader. As founder and managing attorney of Showell Ventures & Consulting PLLC ("SVC"), he works with small businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, solopreneurs, socialpreneurs, technology professionals, creative professionals, freelancers, and nonprofits, as well as individuals and families. He studied business planning, technology law and litigation at George Washington Law School and product design and business at the University of Cincinnati. He is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and is based in Washington, DC.
Vice President, IT and CIO
The Urban Institute
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Khuloud Odeh is not your typical technologist: she brings a unique blend of education, IT organization leadership, change management experience, and understanding of global and
local sustainability challenges. Over the course of her career, she has helped various organizations develop and implement strategic IT roadmaps
that align with and support business process improvements, innovation, and organizational growth.
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Before joining Urban, Odeh was IT director for the Grameen Foundation, a global poverty-fighting organization. She served previously as the CIO of CHF International (now Global Communities) and as senior IT advisor to Jhpeigo’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program.
Creative Director
Tin Shop
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Paris Hines, a D.C. native, began working in the bar and nightlife industry at the young age of 17. Her outgoing personality and knack for executing marketing plans and events, led her to managing the front door at various clubs, to booking DJs and events, to now working with owners on quality control. She has the ability to make sure everything runs smoothly and her passion for people mixed with strategic planning led her to the Creative Director role at Tin Shop. Through her network and keen eye for branding, she has been able to connect people and curate cool events at the various establishments under the Tin Shop umbrella.
Founder & CEO
Product Savvy Consulting
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Jonathan Chashper is a recognized professional offering fresh insight and a passion for innovation. He has a proven track record in planning, building and launching successful high-profile software solutions. As a dynamic leader and guide, Mr. Chashper’s leadership drives team cohesion and inspires individuals to strive for even higher levels of achievement. Mr. Chashper has a solid technological background, enhanced with a first-class MBA.
Prior to founding Product Savvy Consulting, he led the Software Development Department of AeroScout, which is the market leader in enterprise visibility solutions based on Wi-Fi and other wireless-networking standards. Before joining AeroScout, Mr. Chashper co-founded Netprox, a start-up geared towards building an application platform for the mobile Internet.
Patent Policy Analyst
Google DC
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Aerica Banks is a patent policy analyst in Google's DC office. In this capacity she monitors the legislative and legal patent landscape and integrates diversity initiatives into Google's patent strategy. Additionally, she is the COO of the Asian Google Network, one of Google's largest employee resource groups. She also serves as the DC Diversity Markets Partner Liaison, engaging underrepresented communities through small business and entrepreneurship endeavors in the region. Previously, she was a political appointee in the Obama Administration, worked in government relations for The Pew Charitable Trusts, and advanced environmental justice policies in Washington state. She holds a MSc in Environmental Policy from Oxford University and a BA in Environmental Studies and Public Affairs from Seattle University.
Vice President of Customer Success
Social Tables
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Will Henry is the Vice President of Customer Success at Social Tables, the Washington, D.C.-based event planning software company.Â
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Will has almost a decade of experience in hospitality and customer success. He has worked for several large brands renowned for customer focus and pioneering the use of technology to drive customer satisfaction and engagement including Disney Parks and Resorts, Augusta National Golf Club and JCrew Group.
Will has a BS from the University of Georgia and a Masters from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Will currently lives in Washington, D.C.
Founder & CEO
InnovatorsBox
Monica Kang is a passionate community bridge builder, creative culture educator, and curious researcher. She founded InnovatorsBox to help professionals tap into their creative potential. Through workshops, coaching, and supportive community, she empowers professionals with confidence and insights in creativity to enhance professional and personal growth. Monica gained a deeper appreciation for nuanced differences and the importance of community building through living in 5 different countries and her prior experience in government, nonprofit and international organizations for 6+ years. She holds an M.A. from SAIS Johns Hopkins University in Strategic Studies and International Economics and a B.A. at Boston University. She is also an active leader in StartingBloc, Hive, Startup Weekend, DMV Startup, and Coach Diversity Institute
Chief Strategy Officer
SeedUps
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Samson Williams is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of SeedUps, an Ireland based VC FinTech firm specializing in providing crowdfunded financing to startups and small businesses in Northern Ireland, the EU and UK and expanding operations to USA and Africa in 2017.
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Prior to joining SeedUps, Samson spent 2008 – 2016 at Fannie Mae as Emergency Manager / Baby Chief of Staff O&T Executive Office; blocking, tackling, putting out fires and babysitting executives. Samson is an expert in banking and finance operations, organizational change management and a thought leader in equity crowdfunding, alternative banking and social good.
"Creative Jump beautifully brought students and professionals from a multitude of backgrounds together under one roof to explore creativity and innovation. The program sparked storytelling, relationship building, and the development of a community that'll last beyond a single weekend. All of the attendees shared unique personal experiences and coupled with the program curriculum offered new insight on how to practice and implement creativity into your everyday life. It served as a safe place to teach, question, and learn. I would highly recommend Creative Jump to anyone who is interested in joining an exciting community full of creativity and innovation!"
"Before coming to InnovatorsBox's Creative Jump I was feeling a creative block and frustrated with bureaucracy in my position. The structure of the workshop equips you with the skills needed to tap into creativity. The panelists also served as great resources for providing anecdotal problems and solutions to common challenges facing creatives. My key takeaway was that creativity is a practice of mindfulness that must be exercised often. Diversity and representation within a team is vital to the creative process - no one person processes information the same way or has the same life experiences. Great ideas come from collaboration and openness."
"Creative Jump gave me an opportunity to reflect, connect and learn about creativity. It 'activated' part of my brain that wants to do more and better. That part that gives birth to new ideas and projects. By sharing my views with others and listening to inspiring stories by inspiring people, I feel that I'm not alone in this journey to become more of who I am suppose to be. Thank you Monica for your creative vision, your hard work and your deep belief that all of us are born creative and awesome!"
"Creative Jump is a valuable, results-focused, and enjoyable experience. I left the day with concrete ideas on how to enhance my team's day-to-day creative process to get results. In addition to Monica's natural and insightful facilitation, the participants are accomplished and diverse which led to several new professional relationships hatched during the event. A few weeks after the event, these new relationships are already bearing fruit. Creative Jump is ideal for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs alike, and, for me, well worth the investment! I look forward to the next InnovatorsBox event."
