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to your audience and message if you want your event to:
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About Lynda Curtin - Innovation Presentations for
R&D, New Product Development, Marketing
Let the real experts lead the way ... people in the trenches, who have
overcome the same barriers to innovation you face and who are on the forefront
of the idea age in business.
With a strong background in product management and marketing, Lynda Curtin
has taken de Bono's concepts and put them to work in many organizations to drive
revenue and profit. She loves to help people "take charge of their own
thinking" and her practical approach to creativity endears her firm, The
Opportunity Thinker, to business leaders and managers across many industries.
About Lynda Curtin -
101 Tips to Boost Your Marketing Savvy Presentations
for Training Professionals
Imagine moving to a new country during the depth of a
recession, settling in the second largest city, Los Angeles, not knowing a soul,
and then deciding to launch a new business knowing that the failure rate after
five years is enormous. Lynda Curtin did just that. This risk taker has beaten
the odds. Her 8-year-old company, The Opportunity Thinker is flourishing because
she had the guts to put her marketing savvy to work and just do it. She
understands competitive pressure and the stress associated with delivering
bottom-line results. She has been there, many times, most recently as Product
Manager of Canada’s #1 selling brand of major appliances responsible for
helping to deliver sales exceeding $100 million. Lynda will share ideas that are
relevant for internal and external Training/OD/OE practitioners.
About Lynda Curtin - New Product/New Business Development Presentations
Lynda is blessed to have merchandising talent in her blood;
the skill that captures customer
belief in the dramatic difference an innovation is going to make in their lives.
She is consistently described as a very high content, high energy, and a job
relevant speaker. Her favorite compliment, “Are
you entertaining a job with our company?” demonstrates her powerful
impact.
Lynda’s clients
appreciate her broad based experience in consumer goods. She understands their
challenges:
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Understanding the customer - Marketing from the customer's point
of view - more than demographics on a page
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Brand management - Kenmore, the 1 major appliance brand in Canada,
very profitable; Royal Albert fine bone china; Royal Doulton; Wedgewood;
Pinwheel Crystal; Wamsutta Percales; T-Fal; Corning ware; Rubbermaid; to name
just a few
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Product development - customer/supplier/retailer partnerships
· Supplier partnerships - capitalizing on strengths to gain more
market share and profit
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Manufacturing capabilities - understanding the necessity for
responsible demands to ensure profitability
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Packaging - simplify the complex, write clear instructions,
provide useful information - customers will love you!
·
Facilitating ideation teams to "out-think" the
competition
About Lynda Curtin:
Boost Your Marketing Savvy
Lynda Curtin is an entrepreneur in the true sense. Her
personal and professional story exemplifies the American Dream. Her company, The
Opportunity Thinker, has flourished over the last eight years by incorporating
the very techniques Lynda shares in her workshops.
About Lynda Curtin: How to
Strengthen Your Brands in Cyberspace Presentations
Lynda Curtin, leader of her own flourishing company, The
Opportunity Thinker, is highly regarded for delivering bottom-line results. She
demonstrated this expertise during her short time as Product Manager of
Canada’s #1 selling brand of major appliances. She helped deliver sales
exceeding $100 million, breaking all sales and profit records. Then in 1988, her
skill at developing innovative brand strategies was leveraged. Lynda was
positioned as a business coach. Her attention was focused on helping people see
beyond the obvious to “out-think” the competition.
About
Lynda Curtin:
Bio used for presentations on innovation
“Boost
your bottom-line. Learn how to flex your own mental muscle and experience the
power of high impact thinking in a practical, results
oriented way.”
You must accelerate your pace of
innovation. Business success demands it. In this era of
deregulation it is no longer good enough to manage the status-quo. Ideas
are worth millions of dollars when implemented strategically. Yet many companies
still rely on the old seat-of-your-pants method,
chance, to stumble across innovative business solutions. Experience Lynda’s
helpful, hands-on, highly interactive sessions that clients typically describe
as rich in content with practical take home value.
About
Lynda Curtin:
Bio used by women's groups - High Performance Ideation Thinking
Presentations
Lynda Curtin, leader of her own flourishing company, The
Opportunity Thinker, is highly regarded for delivering bottom-line results. She
was the first female Product Manager of Canada's #1 selling brand of major
appliances - a $100 million business. Then in 1988 a life changing call came.
Lynda was launched onto a new career path tapping her creative thinking skill as a
creativity coach to help employees see beyond the obvious to
"out-think" the competition. She is noted for her interactive style
and for helping people in a diverse range of companies (ABB, Raytheon, The
Orange County Register, Caltech, Stanford, The City of Fresno, Hewlett Packard,
Nestle) strengthen their businesses with profitable new approaches.
Her passion and talent for helping people learn how to flex
their own mental muscle is evident in all of her high impact sessions with
consistent comments like:
·
“The entire program was
outstanding. Of the 3 sessions I attended this was by far the best, most
informative and USEFUL.”
·
“I never thought I could
push my thinking further. This is great.”
·
“I will be able to use
this when I get back to the office.”
·
“Are you entertaining a
job with our company?”
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“Very content rich.”
About
Lynda Curtin - High Performance Thinking Presentations for Quality Professionals
Lynda’s commitment to Quality was established when she
researched and produced a TQM video for Sears Canada, Inc. that helped recruit
over 350 manufacturers around the world to implement TQM. Sears Canada was the
first retailer in North America to implement a Customer-Supplier Quality
Partnership Program. Lynda believes high performance thinking is an essential
ingredient to creating long-term Customer-Supplier relationships.
She is one of a select group of consultants trained and
certified by Dr. Edward de Bono, the world’s leading expert on creative and
conceptual thinking: Six Thinking HatsÒ
(1992), Lateral ThinkingÔ
(1994), DATT: Direct Attention Thinking ToolsÔ
(1996), Accredited de Bono Facilitator (1998). She is among the top three
practitioners in the United States.
She founded her company, The Opportunity Thinker, in 1994
after moving to Los Angeles from Toronto. An entrepreneurial member of the
Advanced Practical Thinking Training, Inc. (APTT) worldwide network, Lynda
helped APTT boost their business to earn a respected spot on the Inc. 500 list
of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies in 1997.
She leads public and in-house Creative and Lateral ThinkingÔ
application based workshops and Business Development Ideation Sessions that have
been attended by serious thinkers from internationally recognized innovative
companies such as, Nestle, Microsoft, Compaq, The Disney Store, ABB - Finland,
Sears Canada, 3M, Nestle, Allied Signal, Hewlett Packard, Disneyland, Wells
Fargo Bank, Rocketdyne, L.A. Cellular, GTE Mobilnet, Moen, Motorola and Alkatel
Kirk Space - Denmark, to name a few.
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