Cathryn Hrudicka

Current

• Chief Imagination Officer, CEO, Principal at Creative Sage™
• CEO, Principal, Account Executive, Consultant at Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates

Past

• Partner, Associate Recording Engineer, Composer, Sound Designer, Music/Audio Writer & Editor at Links Sound

Education

• Beloit College
• Mills College
• San Francisco State University

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Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Summary

At Creative Sage™, we help organizations, project teams and individuals innovate to create outstanding management and marketing strategies, communications, solutions, services and products.

We design custom-tailored, modular creativity and innovation programs, and we consult with, train, mentor and coach people in every level of the workplace who are currently employed in corporations, on project teams, in their own businesses, nonprofit organizations, or in the arts. We also partner businesses and nonprofit organizations on projects that make the world a better place.

Additionally, we coach and mentor people who want to revolutionize "retirement" or are going through transitions and want to live more creative, meaningful lives. We design modular programs for executives and all employees who are approaching retirement and want to re-engineer their lives for greatness after they leave their current workplace.

We bring your inner innovator out of hiding. We help you innovate to be great!

Creative Sage™ grew as a new branch from my flagship company, Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, where we help you get the word out and get new clients through our marketing communications, public relations, social media and strategy consulting and training programs.

Our team of talented associates implements marketing, public relations, branding, print and online publishing campaigns. We write first-rate copy, manage projects, develop and edit publications. We create e-letters, blogs, podcasts, video and multimedia productions.

In addition to working with businesses and trade associations, we offer nonprofit organizations consulting, coaching and mentoring in the areas of marketing, social media and online community building, public relations, fund-raising and strategic planning, and event production.

We bring your message to the world, and the world to you.

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Specialties:

Management consulting, innovation training, executive coaching, creativity and innovation consulting & coaching, social media strategy, public relations, writing, editing, publications development, nonprofit management, fund-raising.

Please send me an email at: sage at CreativeSage.com if you would like an emailed package with more details about my company and background. Find me on Facebook:
http://profile.to/Cathryn_Hrudicka_Creative_Sage/
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/CreativeSage

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Experience

• Chief Imagination Officer, CEO, Principal

  Creative Sage™

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Innovation and workplace creativity consulting and training; executive coaching and management consulting; transition and pre-retirement coaching; coaching creatives; teamwork and collaboration.
  
  We also offer executive, staff and board retreats for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. We foster collaboration and development of social entrepreneur projects as well.
  
  Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, small-to-medium size companies, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, work teams and individuals. A complete client and services list, publication history, speaker and training briefs, and other background information may be obtained by emailing or calling us via our blog sites, or through LinkedIn.
  
  Blog: What's Innovation Got to Do with It?
  
  http://www.CreativeSage.com/blog
  
  Company Home: http://www.CreativeSage.com
  
  
  Announcing a new artist blog site for Cathryn Hrudicka:
  
  http://www.CreativeSageArts.com/blog

• CEO, Principal, Account Executive, Consultant

  Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  1988 — Present (21 years )

  Specializing in integrating social media, social networking & online communities with innovative public relations and marketing outreach programs. We also offer social media training/mentoring services to other marketing & PR pros.
  
  We are a full-service public relations, communications & content development company. We provide writing, editing, audio, video & multimedia services with a team of talented associates.
  
  Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, small-to-medium size companies, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, and individuals. A complete client and services list, publication history, speaker and training briefs, and other background information may be obtained by emailing sage at CreativeSage.com
  
  Contributing author to "Age of Conversation 2: Why Don't They Get It?", which was published in Sept. 2008: http://www.ageofconversation.com
  
  PR, Social Media and Marketing blog:
  
  http://www.CathrynHrudicka.com/blog

• Partner, Associate Recording Engineer, Composer, Sound Designer, Music/Audio Writer & Editor

  Links Sound

  (Entertainment industry)

  March 1992 — December 2008 (16 years 10 months)

  Location recording for concerts and other events; environmental recording; audio production and post-production services, music composition, sound design. A list of clients, credits and references is available upon request.
  
  Owner/Principal Audio Engineer—Recording & Mastering/Audio Editor: Richard Links, San Francisco Bay Area
  
  Associate Engineer/Composer/Sound Designer/Audio Writer & Editor: Cathryn Hrudicka
  
  Links Sound blog sites-in-progress (to be launched soon):
  
  http://www.LinksSound.com
  
  http://www.LinksAudio.com
  
  Cathryn Hrudicka's new multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary artist blog site:
  
  http://www.CreativeSageArts.com/blog

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Education

• Beloit College

  Interdisciplinary Arts , Anthropology, Archaelology, Sociology, Creative Writing, Filmmaking, Music, Art, Biology

  I have continued my professional studies and taken many classes at other colleges and universities during my career. Most recently, I was trained in Executive Coaching through the Center for Executive Coaching, founded by Andrew Neitlich, Management Consultant and Executive Coach. I have been asked to teach or be a guest artist or guest speaker at several colleges and universities.

  Activities and Societies:

  Please note: This list is not in chronological order. I attended Beloit College, Indiana University, and San Francisco State University in that order, followed by two recent Guest Artist/Guest Faculty presentations at Mills College.

• Mills College

  Guest Artist & Faculty for Composer Pauline Oliveros, Women in Music/Music Composition, Sound Design

• San Francisco State University

  Graduate , Multimedia Studies Program, Sound Design, Audio, Video, Interactive Scriptwriting, Internet

  Activities and Societies:

  Teaching Assistant, Sound Design apprenticeships with Randy Thom of Skywalker Sound, the Music Annex, Multimedia Project Management and Production internships with MuseInteractive, World Wide Art (web site), other multimedia project management experience

Additional Information

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Interests:

Management consulting, executive coaching, transition and retirement coaching, training, creativity and innovation expert, social media, PR, Web 2.0, new public relations, marketing, social communities, team collaboration, writing, editing, design, arts, music, music composition, sound design, sound art, film, video, audio, sound design, gardens, animals, nature, environment

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Groups:

Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, Women in Consulting (Planning Committee for San Francisco Satellite), Social Media Club Planning Committee, American Creativity Association (starting a California/West Coast Chapter), International Alliance for Women in Music, Women's Audio Mission, Nature Sounds Society, NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences), and many other professional memberships (extensive list available upon request); founded or co-founded five professional organizations and have served on nonprofit and trade association Boards of Directors.

Trained as an Executive Coach through the Center for Executive Coaching, Andrew Neitlich, CEO

•    Executive Suite
•    Women In Consulting (WIC)
•    Women 2.0
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Society for New Communications Research
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Igniting Innovation
•    Creativity Champions
•    Innovation Management Group
•    Front End of Innovation
•    Linking Northern California
•    ThoseinMedia
•    Innovative New Product & Service Innovators & Inventors
•    Mills College Connections
•    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
•    Ladies Who Launch
•    Green & Sustainability Innovators & Innovation Network
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Behance Creatives
•    Women in Audio
•    Social Media Today
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Groundswell Book
•    OpenSocial
•    The Age of Conversation Authors and Fans
•    Public Relations and Communications Professionals
•    Forrester
•    Winning Workplaces
•    MarketingProfs
•    SF State Alumni
•    Associated Producers Worldwide
•    Technology in the Arts
•    Social Network & Community Creators
•    Enterprise 2.0 Group
•    Nonprofit Professionals Forum
•    Beloit College Alumni
•    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
•    Social Media Club
•    The Corporate Blogging Think Tank
•    Web 2.0 Innovations in Learning
•    Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley/Eden Medical Center, an affiliate of Sutter Health
•    Sutter Health Employees and Alumni
•    Social Media For Government
•    Sustainable Business Alliance
•    Innovation Management Institute
•    Friends of High Tech Connect
•    Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
•    Continuous Innovation
•    #smchat

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Honors:

*** We're very proud to announce that our client, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley (a Sutter Health affiliate), won the 2009 SNCR (Society for New Communications Research) Award for Excellence and Innovation in External Communications and Communities in the Nonprofit Division, along with our company, Creative Sage™/Cathryn Hrudicka & Associates, and G2 Communications, Inc.! ***

Winner of eight National Novel Writing Month events (2001-2008). Wrote eight novels in eight years; plus participated in two National Novel Editing Month events

Contributing author to the nonfiction book, "Age of Conversation 2: Why Don't They Get It?", published in October, 2008. Look for "Age of Conversation 3" in 2010!

Also working on a nonfiction book, audio and multimedia series about creativity and innovation—proposal package is available upon request.

Lists of awards, honors, publications, media coverage, and references are available upon request by contacting: sage at CreativeSage.com

Cathryn Hrudicka’s Contact Settings

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