by Carla Johnson | Mar 11, 2021 | Business, C-Suite, Corporate Culture, Marketing
March 11, 2021 Has any role in business morphed more than that of the CMO? It’s a position rife with constantly changing expectations yet most often lacks the necessary support to ensure its success. If you’ve worked in marketing long, this isn’t...
by Carla Johnson | Jan 21, 2021 | Business, Corporate Communications, Marketing
January 21, 2021 Global pandemic. Fake news. Social protests. Economic turmoil. Political instability. If 2020 were a movie plot, no one would believe it. Unfortunately, this is the world we’ve endured the last 12 months. The effects of this imperfect storm come...
by Carla Johnson | May 2, 2019 | Business, Creativity, Innovation
May 2, 2019 A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden about how to bring new ideas into an organization. At the end, a woman in the audience raised her hand and asked a question: What do you do when management kills your great idea? Hands...
by Carla Johnson | Feb 14, 2019 | Business, Change Management, Employee Engagement, Innovation
February 14, 2019 It’s not easy to create an innovation track record like Amazon or Google. But companies that hope to outperform their competitors and shake up their industries are pouring money into innovation programs – labs, hubs and design thinking...
by Carla Johnson | May 29, 2018 | Business, Customer Experience, Innovation
May 29, 2018 By Carla Johnson Lynn Bonge was a larger-than-life executive with a scant shock of salt-and-pepper hair who grew up in a small Nebraska town not far from where I did. Twenty years my senior, Lynn had an enviable reputation in the architecture industry for...
by Carla Johnson | Apr 10, 2018 | Business, Innovation, Women Keynote Speakers
April 10, 2018 by Carla Johnson While women formed the backbone of the early days of the tech industry, that’s certainly not the case today. Apple, Facebook and Google now have a tech workforce population that’s more than 75 percent male. If we shift from looking at...
