Boldijarre
Koronczay
EXPERTISE: Business
Strategy
SESSION: Three Ways to
Use Happiness to Grow
Your Business
1. I define innovation as: The essence of business. Without innovation, there is no growth in
any industry.
2. In my view, the greatest innovation in today’s time is: The “return to the origins” way of
eating healthy, organic food grown in traditional farming methods, and using these same ingredients in your skin-care products, can help heal the body inside and out and enhance your
well-being naturally.
3. Of all the world’s innovators, I most admire: Jim Carrey. With his over-the-top characters of
himself, he created a cult following. He has been able to reinvent, or “innovate,” himself over
and over again through his diverse, hilarious roles.
4. In the area I’ll be speaking about at this year’s ISPA Conference, the most disruptive
idea I’ve seen so far is: Putting your face on a shower pouf!
5. In the health and wellness space, the most inventive treatment I’ve come across with
is: A Gondola massage in Venice, Italy. I haven’t tried one, but sign me up!
6. If I can invent one thing, I would invent a: Machine that you could just put in a card, type
some numbers and money would magically appear out of it! Oh wait, that’s already invented!
7. The one piece of advice I’d give to help foster a culture of innovation is: Humor!
8. The app I am hooked on is: MemeMaker.
9. If I can only keep one book to read, I’d pick: Winning with One Liners: 3,400 Hilarious Laugh
Lines to Tickle Your Funny Bones and Spice Up Your Speeches by Pat Williams.
10. The single most important takeaway attendees can gain from attending my session is:
A shower pouf with my face on it. Just kidding! But did that make you laugh? Then that’s
exactly what you’ll take away from my session—finding humor and happiness in your
everyday life, and using that to grow your business. Work is where you spend the majority of
your time—you should be laughing and having fun while you’re at it.
Kate Mearns
1. I define innovation as: The ability to toss a product, method, or idea up in the air and then
EXPERTISE: Business
Strategy
2. In my view, the greatest innovation in today’s time is: Still being created in someone’s
SESSION: Spa Menu
Engineering: Crafting a
Unique and Profitable
Service Menu
move things around so it lands differently.
garage.
3. Of all the world’s innovators, I most admire: Alan Turing. I loved The Imitation Game and
Turing was relentless about his idea despite all the skeptics, critics and haters.
4. In the area I’ll be speaking about at this year’s ISPA Conference, the most disruptive
idea I’ve seen so far is: Status quo.
5. In the health and wellness space, the most inventive product I’ve come across with is:
Cloud-based software for back-of-house operations. It is so simple, yet a really valuable tool
for managers.
6. If I can invent one thing, I would invent a: Genome to make people value life of all kinds.
7. The one piece of advice I’d give to help foster a culture of innovation is: No idea is a bad
idea—so speak up!
8. The app I am hooked on is: Google Maps