SWE Boston Professional Development Meeting
“Nurturing Individual and Team Creativity” with Dr. Jerry Brightman
Sponsored by Analog Devices
“Nurturing Individual and Team Creativity” with Dr. Jerry Brightman
Sponsored by Analog Devices
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2016
RSVP: Register by Friday, September 16, 2016 at http://sept2016swepd.eventbrite.com
Agenda:
6:00 – 6:45 pm: Registration/"Touchstone" Activity/Dinner
6:45 – 7:00 pm: Analog Devices and SWE Introduction
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Main Presentation/Activities and Q&A
Event Overview:
Innovation is critical to the long-term success of a tech company, and creativity is the spark that ignites innovation. Engineers who can harness creativity to develop new ideas and solve problems provide their organizations with significant competitive advantage. At this event, Dr. Jerry Brightman, leadership expert and lecturer in the MS in Engineering Management program at Tufts Gordon Institute, will discuss the importance of creativity in the workplace and utilize a number of interactive activities to help attendees undercover the creativity in themselves as well as in their work teams. These activities promise to be informative, educational, and, of course, fun! This event is a great opportunity for technology professionals who want to stimulate creativity practices in their daily work.
Additional Information:
Tickets are non-refundable. However, if a request is made at least 72 hours before the scheduled event, the amount paid can be used as credit towards a future event. Please note that this credit expires within 60 days of the request being approved.
RSVP: Register by Friday, September 16, 2016 at http://sept2016swepd.eventbrite.com
Agenda:
6:00 – 6:45 pm: Registration/"Touchstone" Activity/Dinner
6:45 – 7:00 pm: Analog Devices and SWE Introduction
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Main Presentation/Activities and Q&A
Event Overview:
Innovation is critical to the long-term success of a tech company, and creativity is the spark that ignites innovation. Engineers who can harness creativity to develop new ideas and solve problems provide their organizations with significant competitive advantage. At this event, Dr. Jerry Brightman, leadership expert and lecturer in the MS in Engineering Management program at Tufts Gordon Institute, will discuss the importance of creativity in the workplace and utilize a number of interactive activities to help attendees undercover the creativity in themselves as well as in their work teams. These activities promise to be informative, educational, and, of course, fun! This event is a great opportunity for technology professionals who want to stimulate creativity practices in their daily work.
Additional Information:
Tickets are non-refundable. However, if a request is made at least 72 hours before the scheduled event, the amount paid can be used as credit towards a future event. Please note that this credit expires within 60 days of the request being approved.
LocationAnalog Devices
804 Woburn St Wilmington, MA 01887 Parking: You may park in Building 1's visitor parking. In the case of overflow, utilize Building 1's general spaces in the parking lot. Note: All visitors must show government-issued proof of U.S. identification--such as a driver's license, passport, or green card for U.S. legal residents--to receive a visitor escort badge and attend the event. Visitors can register in Building 1 and walk to the cafeteria from there (signs will be posted). |
About the Speaker

Dr. Jerry Brightman is currently President of The Leadership Group (TLG). Founded in 1996 and currently located in Canaan, New Hampshire, TLG is focused on helping leaders and their teams understand and actualize those behaviors that will make them great. The work of TLG is creating and delivering customized leader development programs in a number of leadership areas including; leadership development; organizational learning; action learning; culture change; change management; systems thinking; dialogue and communication; team learning; and executive mentoring and coaching. In addition to program design and facilitation, Dr. Brightman does one-on-one coaching and mentoring as well as speaking engagements around the world.
Dr. Brightman holds a Doctorate in Business (DBA) degree from The George Washington University, where his doctoral thesis was in the area of innovation, creativity, and planned change in organizations, an MBA from American University (Washington, DC) and a BA in Economics from Clark University (Worcester, MA). Read more about Dr. Brightman's work at http://gordon.tufts.edu/faculty/brightman.
Dr. Brightman holds a Doctorate in Business (DBA) degree from The George Washington University, where his doctoral thesis was in the area of innovation, creativity, and planned change in organizations, an MBA from American University (Washington, DC) and a BA in Economics from Clark University (Worcester, MA). Read more about Dr. Brightman's work at http://gordon.tufts.edu/faculty/brightman.
About Raytheon
Analog Devices is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of a broad portfolio of high performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in virtually all types of electronic equipment. Since our inception in 1965, we have focused on solving the engineering challenges associated with signal processing in electronic equipment. Used by over 100,000 customers worldwide, our signal processing products play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as temperature, pressure, sound, light, speed, and motion into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic devices. We focus on key strategic markets where our signal processing technology is often a critical differentiator in our customers' products, namely the industrial, automotive, communications, and consumer markets.
We currently produce a wide range of innovative products—including data converters, amplifiers and linear products, radio frequency (RF) ICs, power management products, sensors based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and other sensors, and processing products, including DSP and other processors—that are designed to meet the needs of our broad base of customers.
To learn more, visit http://www.analog.com.
We currently produce a wide range of innovative products—including data converters, amplifiers and linear products, radio frequency (RF) ICs, power management products, sensors based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology and other sensors, and processing products, including DSP and other processors—that are designed to meet the needs of our broad base of customers.
To learn more, visit http://www.analog.com.
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