Innovation Network

Ruth Ann Hattori
Co-founder,
InnovationNetwork

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First and foremost, Ruth Ann Hattori is a bottom-line oriented business person with over 20 years experience, first as an entrepreneur, then as successively more responsible positions in senior management. She enjoyed a long and very successful career in fashion apparel where her talents for future thinking and trend analysis were critical.

From ground zero in 1978, Rocky Mountain Clothing Company (RMCC) grew to over $50 million in the early 1990's as Ruth Ann moved through every function from design to production to sales to marketing. As an acquisition of Miller International, Inc., RMCC has an unfailing record of profitability as the largest division of Miller since the late 1980's. As a corporate VP and division president, she navigated through changes typical of today's business climate-growth, merger, downsizing, and reengineering.

Today, Ruth Ann offers to other businesses her expertise in innovation and creative problem solving, the visioning, strategy, team development, collaboration and change management associated with innovation.

Ruth Ann has been involved in the emerging field of Innovation/Creative Problem Solving for 10 years, including the design and facilitation of InnovationNetwork's Innovation University program, the design and production of the Innovation Convergence conference. Her training and consulting clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kodak, Datex-Ohmeda (now part of GE Medical), Otto Bock Supportive Innovations, Air Products and Chemicals and Destination Hotels & Resorts. She is co-author of the book InnovationTraining and various articles on innovation. Ruth Ann holds a B.S. from Oregon State University in Home Economics and Journalism.

Ruth Ann can be reached at staff@thinksmart.com or 303-604-1981.

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