Innovation Outreach Program (IOP)

The IOP, according to their own corporate speak heavy definition, "is a community of Global 100 leaders which puts members at the forefront of disruptive technologies in a year-round program supporting shared ideas and innovation, coupled with opportunities to identify synergies and build meaningful relationships across industries. The IOP supports collaborations across industry, geographies and professional fields as a meeting of inventive minds who drive leadership in innovation.”

To put it into laymen's, the IOP is a members-only networking event comprised of Fortune 100 company leaders which meets a handful of times a year to discuss themes central to the innovation and/or disruption of their business models.

Project details

Creative process

At the conclusion of each outreach event, myself and CG's Chief Communication Officer, would spend a sleepless week creating an executive summary recapping the multi-day event. Together we would pour over hours of video presentations and sift through hundreds of pages worth of transcripts, graphs, charts, and other visuals.

Ingesting such dense information is one thing, doing so while retaining and understanding it enough to summarize into a digestible PDF format is another thing entirely. The IOP executive summaries I worked on proved to be some of the most difficult and demanding writing I've done in my career.

Below are a few samples of the executive summaries I worked on.