Josh Linkner, an entrepreneur who created the ePrize interactive promotion firm based in Pleasant Ridge, returns to his alma mater (Class of 1988) for a presentation titled "Creating Creativity and the Conditions Conducive for It.”
Linkner, chairman of the international marketing sweepstake and prize business he started in 1999, writes and speaks nationwide about product innovation, building and leading creative cultures, creative approaches to sales and unorthodox problem solving.
In his book being published Feb. 22, Disciplined Dreaming, Linkner says creativity is the only competitive advantage companies have left. Everything else can be copied by a teen with Internet access.
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His lecture, open to the community, will be in the school's R. Dean Acheson Theatre.
