IDEA-MAKERS CONFERENCE - Key Persons
Charles Lee is the CEO & Chief Idea-Maker at Ideation, a brand innovation company that specializes in helping businesses & organizations build remarkable brands via innovative business design, organizational change architecture, brand integration, design, web, and marketing services. He is also the author of Good Idea. Now What?: How to Move Ideas to Execution, a practical book designed to help people move ideas to implementation.
Charles is regularly invited to speak to leading companies and organizations on topics such as creativity, innovation, idea-making, branding, and social entrepreneurism. Executive leaders from brands including Wells Fargo, The White House, Catalyst, William Morris Endeavor, mun2, Council of Urban Professionals, and many others have benefited from having Charles present at their key events. In addition to speaking, Charles has served as moderator for numerous events with NY Times best-selling authors and senior executives from brands including Google, Twitter, Groupon, Starwood, Disney, NBCUniversal, CAA, Toyota, TOMS, charity: water, United Way, World Vision, and many others.
Charles Lee will be moderating a conversation with the 3 founders of the Krochet Kids International (Kohl, Travis, & Stewart). Krochet Kids Int'l empowers people to rise above poverty by creating sustainable economic development programs that support holistic growth of individuals and communities within developing nations.
Job Titles:
- CEO and Founder of Sevenly.Org
Charles Lee will be moderating a conversation with Dale Partridge, the CEO and Founder of Sevenly.org, a social good company that partners with one qualified nonprofit each week to sell products designed for that charity's cause, with seven dollars from each product sale being donated to the charity. Since it's launch in June 2011, Mashable and Los Angeles Times have named Sevenly one of the fastest growing social good companies in the country. In two years, Sevenly has given over $2.5 million in $7 donations to charities across the globe. Dale is an author, avid speaker and has been featured in various publications including the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, INC Magazine, Mashable, Fortune, Forbes and the Los Angeles Times.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director, Corporate
Keith Kall is the Executive Director, Corporate Engagement (Global Partnerships) at World Vision. Keith believes in leveraging on the best attributes of the "private sector" to try to help improve the lives of the poor, the thirsty, the oppressed and the suffering, worldwide. He is deeply committed to the pursuit of integrating business, innovation and appropriate technology into health, community development and emergency relief work to provide new solutions to chronic problems. Keith is bridging the gap between the business and humanitarian sectors to build joint-equity partnerships with Fortune 1000 corporations to tackle problems and help fill gaps in African, Southeast Asian and Latin American communities.