Toni Newman - Catalyst for Strategic Innovation
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Catalyst for Strategic Innovation... Innovation that Works!
Five-time award winning business owner Toni Newman, is a highly sought after Innovation Catalyst and professional speaker with an uncanny ability to help her clients turn information into innovation and ideas into results. With years of business experience in fields as diverse as law, advertising, tourism, entertainment and event management, Toni brings a uniquely powerful mix of strategy, creativity and real world insight to the table.
In today’s incredible challenging marketplace, where competitive advantage is determined by our ability to effectively differentiate ourselves from the competition, highly respected leaders from sectors as diverse as Finance, Retail, Telecommunications, Health Care, Insurance and many others count on Toni to provoke the kind of strategically innovative thinking that is essential to propel their organizations forward.
As a speaker fluent in both French and English, Toni travels all over North America working with leaders who are committed to change and ready for results. Her approach is quite simply a breath of fresh air. Entertaining and yet highly knowledgeable, authentic and truly engaging, Toni gets her message across to audiences with both style and substance.
What people are saying...
I have planned many meetings, have worked with many speakers and I would have to say that you really are the most prepared speaker I have ever worked with. We are now able to focus our resources and “innovate” our way to greater success.
–Director of Operations, Westmont Hospitality Group
You bring a real passion and excitement to your presentations and workshops, as both are filled with meaningful content. Rest assured that your message is living on and that is the real value of what you bring to any organization.
–Director of Sales, Shnier, Gesco Limited Partner
With Toni Newman engaging and leading us in the journey over the past two years, we have become the model of Innovation in our organization. Toni conducts exhaustive preparation for each event, interviewing employees and working with management to ensure that we are asking the right questions and have a very clear goal in mind.
–PhD Director, Operational Services, Abbott
Programs
Strategic Innovation Programs
If your organization needs to think differently about how you do what you do so that you can get more of the results that you want, Toni’s highly effective Strategic Innovation presentations are designed to deliver the right learning to the right audience at the right time in your unique journey.
Why? Why Not! Turning inspiration into innovation and ideas into results
In today’s economic reality, sustainable competitive advantage doesn’t begin with what you do. It begins with how you think.
So… how does your organization think? Do you have the idea generation power to out compete your competition? To stay ahead of the high speed chase of change? To keep your employees empowered and engaged?
The Why? Why Not! program has been carefully designed to re-energize the collective imagination of your organization by accomplishing three simple but essential objectives.
- Creating a shift in mindset from “Why?” to “Why not!” thinking.
- Demystifying the concept of strategic innovation so that everyone can get engaged and on board; and
- Sharing some simple and yet highly effective tools that will enable each participant to tap into their own unique source of strategically innovative ideas.
The Power of Fanatical Focus™! How to position your business for radical growth in challenging times
Would you build a house without a foundation? Clarity of purpose is the solid foundation upon which successful strategic innovation is built because when innovation initiatives are held accountable to clarity of purpose, results happen.
Unfortunately, in today’s challenging economic times, many of us have lost our clarity of purpose… spread ourselves too thin… forgotten why we do what we do in the first place. The Power of Fanatical Focus™ program is designed to help you as a business owner to take back control of how your clients perceive the unique value that you and your business bring to the marketplace.
Increase clarity of purpose — Increase Fanatical Focus — Increase business growth.
Unexpected Encounters™ Innovative business strategies that attract, engage and keep more customers.
It’s simple.
If you can’t get noticed, you can’t get heard.
If you can’t get heard, you can’t get your message out!
And if you can’t get your message out, your customers can’t know what you want them to do next!
The Unexpected Encounters™ program guides you as a business leader through the “how to” of crafting innovative business strategies (or Unexpected Encounters™) that strategically influence what your customers will think, feel and do next so that you can accomplish your objectives.
Know your customers. Keep your customers. Grow your business.
Curious Cultures™ How great leaders cultivate the ideas that they need for the results that they wan
If you are a business leader, chances are that you already buy into the need for your team to be innovative. But wanting ideas from your people is one thing. Understanding how to bring about the culture change that is required to sustain successful innovation is quite another.
The Curious Cultures ™ program is designed to guide leaders through some of the simple but essential elements of a culture that not only sparks innovation, but ensures that is it sustainable over the long term.
