“Disruptive Thinking – Requirement of 21st Century Leadership?”
Kerry Plemmons
Professor of Practice
Daniels College of Business
University of Denver
SESSION DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this session is to leverage the tools of innovation to create the future for you and your team. Leaders don’t predict the future – they create it. You will leave with a model for purposeful creativity that will keep you ahead of the industry. Learning Objectives: - Implement the tools of design thinking in daily innovation
- Build a framework to cascade these tools deep into your team
- Learn improvisation strategies for creative solutions
SPEAKER BACKGROUND
Kerry Plemmons has 30 years of entrepreneurial experience with success in launching and running small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Mexico, and another 12 years as an academic and consultant. As an executive with Starbucks, Plemmons opened stores in the western U.S. and Canada, ran several test-market innovations, and led operations for a couple hundred stores. Prior to Starbucks, he partnered in creating the Pour la France! Restaurant chain in three states and Mexico. Since joining the University of Denver, Daniels College of Business full time in 2004, Plemmons has consulted to senior executives at Crocs, Kaiser Permanente, the Arapahoe County Sheriff, The American Animal Hospital Association, VMG, ACA, Miller Coors, Environmental Chemical Corporation (ECC), Microsoft, DMB Development Company, Janus Capital Group, Monte Vista Cooperative, Anadarko Oil, DCP Midstream, Intrado, First Data Corporation, Western Union and more.
In the Executive MBA program, he teaches strategic marketing, innovation and a global business sequence that culminates in a two week international experience to places like South Africa, Botswana, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Russia, Mongolia, and Turkey.
Plemmons is a published author with his book, Juxtapositions: Comparing Mild to Wild Success – Irreverently. Juxtapositions looks at whole organizational success, where a kind and gentle revolution might create a strong cultural focus, when imagination leads to strategies that are implemented because they align with the organizational mission, and the individuals are rewarded and recognized so the imaginative strategy process gets repeated.
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