Gannett Innovation Challenge — January 2017
Why it’s special: This was the highest-stakes project of my career. If you follow this link, you will find the presentation deck that our team used during pitches to Gannett executives at the end of the 2016 Innovation Challenge (designed and produced by me), summarizing our team’s journey through the challenge. It breaks down our project and shows why the Your Town brand deserves Gannett’s continued investment. The project itself required at least 30% of my time for most of the year (on top of my daily job), and it gave me the valuable opportunity to assemble and lead a team of employees from departments throughout our company. It let me flex the muscles of all the buzzwords you expect to see in resumes: problem solving, creative thinking, project management, leadership, design thinking principles, communication and deadline-orientation.
This project also helped me to see beyond the studio into the workings of a company, discovering how we can continue to grow as a business into the future — especially since editorial staff aren’t often focused on generating revenue.
Notes: To navigate through the presentation (http://bit.ly/2u92dBe), either accept or deny the full-screen request, then use the arrow keys to move between slides. Don’t click into the PDF. There is sound during a video in the deck.