Brainstorming – Turning Employees into Inventors

Learn how to conduct a brainstorming sessions like the most innovate design companies in Silicon Valley. With the right set-up, brainstorming sessions can be highly productive and fun. Participants often surprise themselves by coming up with ideas they never would have thought of on their own.

• Learn how to set up the “rules” for a brainstorm to encourage group thinking rather than conflict
• Solve real topics in a fun, efficient way
• Discover surprising ways to teach anyone to be more creative and innovative

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More about the presenter:

Marie Moran is a Lean Manufacturing Specialist from Tulsa, OK who teaches companies how to become more creative and efficient. She currently works for Spirit Aerosystems, an aerospace company that specializes in producing airplane wings. As a project manager in the Lean Manufacturing Department she acts as an in-house consultant that coaches workshops in a wide variety of subjects including: improving efficiency, organization skills, changing the way office work and engineering is done, eliminating wasted time and effort, developing new ways of manufacturing parts, and rearranging the factory floor. Many of her projects consist of Process Design: developing a new way of doing any kind of work to make it simpler, easier, faster, less expensive, and accommodating to the needs of the people doing the work.

Marie has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Art from the University of Tulsa. She also has a MS in Product Design from Stanford University and has done work for Google, Wild Planet Entertainment (a toy company in San Francisco), and a Stanford project for Nike’s Explorer group. She has given talks to: The Society of Women Engineers, Community Action Project (CAP), the University of Tulsa, and a number of other organizations.