ECPA has assembled a cast of eminent presenters and experts to help your company’s executive leadership team strategize for the future.

Breakthrough Thinking: Innovation and Solutions

Matt May, Author, The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation (Free Press, 2006) Founder, Aevitas Learning, and former senior advisor and master instructor at University of Toyota

Innovation and Elegant Solutions - part 1
The business world is waking up to the fact that innovation is taking on a new shape. Smart managers know that what's next is all about thinking differently at every level, creating solutions that deliver compelling customer value and impact, and developing streamlined processes with minimal burden and expense. Matt May offers a vital prescription for organizations seeking new inroads to innovation.

Ingenuity - part 2
Companies don't innovate, people do. Customers don't want products and services, they want solutions. In this interactive session, participants will learn how to better define and solve problems using a proven methodology that employs creativity and logic. Your entire leadership team will benefit from this unique professional training experience.

Biography
Matt May offers audiences invaluable practical guidance on how to make continuous and companywide innovation a reality. Matt is the author of an important new book on innovation, The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation, based on the seven years he spent teaching Toyota innovation methods for the University of Toyota.

He applies the principles and tools of the Toyota way of innovation to businesses of all kinds to consistently achieve breakthroughs and continually improve performance.

The magic of Matt’s message lies in its universality and transport- ability across industries and functions, from old-line industries like the one Toyota dominates, to service and knowledge-based industries, as well. His clients include the Los Angeles Police Department, Wells Fargo, Nextel, and the Department of Defense, among many others.

Matt May is the founder of Aevitas Learning, which was a preferred business partner with Toyota from 1999 to 2006 and the only non- Toyota entity certified to teach Toyota methods by the University of Toyota. Aevitas Learning teaches organizations how to build culture and discipline around innovation.