Speaker: Atahan Isik

Presentation Topic: Mindshift for Winning: How to Innovate Your Business to Stay Relevant in this Disruptive Era

Synopsis:

For today's modern businesses, standing still is not an option. Organizations and leaders have a tough job keeping their organizations relevant in this fast-paced, complex and disruptive new era. To stay competitive in a relentlessly changing world, it is imperative organizations keep pace with disruption by innovating and continuously learning.

Whether you're a C-Level executive or a student, or are innovating within an organization or launching a startup, you have to develop the skills and mindset needed to adapt to this disruptive new business era.

During this Lunch & Learn, we will explore the drivers for disruption and how to keep your organization relevant in the future.

About the speaker:

Atahan Isik is passionately interested in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship-- believing these three components will help us make the world a better place to live.

Isik spent nine years as a lead generation and business development professional with proven track record and experience in national as well global technology firms. Isik worked in Silicon Valley, Dubai and Istanbul for Online Gaming, E-commerce, Mobile Technology and FinTech verticals.
Currently he is the partner at Related & Co., Consulting & Growth Services firm.

Besides his consulting work, he has the Program Liaison role at the UCI Division of Continuous Education - Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship program where he started “Zero Gravity", an inspirational entrepreneurship & innovation thinking program with a passion for making an impact on those who are willing to go the extra mile.

Also, he is an accredited, licensed practitioner of an innovation management group where he helps organizations measure and assess their innovation capabilities & innovation IQ.

Isik’s focus is clear-- contributing organizations' and leaders' efforts building the capabilities that enable achieving the sustainable advantage and managing growth, value creation and disruption.

Every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, UCI Applied Innovation hosts a Lunch & Learn series at the Cove where subject matter experts present on a particular topic within or relevant to innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics range in breadth from branding and marketing to pitching mistakes to avoid, investor relations, prototyping, and more.

These events are free and open to the public.
Check-in begins at 11:30 a.m.