How to Innovate Like Edison
As the great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, Sarah Caldicott grew up in a family that shared stories about its famous relative. Edison was the inventor of the phonograph, electric light, the motion picture projector, and literally thousands of other inventions. Most of Edison’s successes came as the leader of a laboratory of assistants, and Caldicott’s presentation will focus on how Edison informed, inspired, motivated, and managed the process of innovation—techniques that apply to today’s organizations or in the classroom.
6 p.m.
Networking
6:30 p.m.
Presentation
7:45 - 9 p.m.
Q&A, book signing, meet the author
About the speaker
Sarah Caldicott started her career in executive positions in Fortune 500 companies, including Quaker Oats, Bayer AG, and Unilever. Today she heads her consultancy, The Power Patterns of Innovation, and offers expert guidance on how to build innovation and collaboration capabilities in organizations of all sizes. Her clients include Intel, Cisco, John Deere, Emerson, Mayo Clinic, Thomson Reuters, and Microsoft among many others. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College where she was named a Wellesley College Scholar and received an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
For more information, contact Tom Byrne at tbyrne@oakton.edu.
