Patricia Stitson

Blogger, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Producer, Social entrepreneur, Technologist, Writer/Editor

Development minded media and eLearning professional with research, analysis, marketing, web, video and operational experience across sectors. Places a strong emphasis on the crucial steps of analysis, project planning, scripting, and rapid prototyping that will streamline production within budget parameters. Provides excellence in project planning and translating needs to technical teams. Creative visionary with a foundation in practical implementation. "I am first and foremost a team player who encourages collaborative communication early on in the project timeline that will effectively create the most innovative and professional product appropriate for the organization and the audience. My approach synthesizes creativity with a dedication to solution finding."

...lifting people up in any way shape or form that comes up as an opportunity for me. I am obsessed with the power of technology and storytelling to educate, inspire and create positive culture.

.All of them. One thing that I have learned from working with TEDx speakers is that some of the most brilliant people I have met do not even believe in their own story. I wonder how much this effects not only positive development in our communities but also the perception of the true talent pool in our workplaces and within our schools. We cannot afford to not start providing transparent safe spaces where real conversations can be had and where every voice is heard despite perceived ineloquence. Collaboration must become a soft skill that is developed because the very essence of it is embedded in ALL the learning we do. The old guard that still leads on the high horse leading their workforce must recognize that the current is changing. Now it is imperative that leaders cultivate the skills of how to guide and curate rather than dictate.

Blended Learning Design and Implementation, Content Writer, Digital Learning, Instructional Design, Learing Interface Design, Multimedia Production, Organizational Alignment

Someone described my involvement in TEDxAmericasFinestCity as 'raising my hand too many times'. That was a fairly apt description. After volunteering at a Team Rubicon event, one of the organizers contacted me about running the video production at the inaugural event in 2011. The following year I ran the entire AV production, in 2013 I became Co-Director with Amber Bradner, bringing our event to the community level in an experimental warehouse space. In 2014 I partnered with SDSU's College of Extended Studies to hold a salon event exploring the concerns of local citizen in a genius forum kicked off by three inspiring change leaders. In 2015 I was asked to help the Cajon Valley School District kick off their first K-8 district level TEDx event. That was incredibly rewarding and, though I was unable to see it through to 2016, that event was soo amazing to see in terms of how a TEDx can evolve and create a large collaborative community. How CVUSD took the seeds of the first event and created a partnership between a sister school district, Vista Unified, and one of our largest corporations, Qualcomm for an adult oriented event to compliment the school level event truly humbled me as an organizer.

...mind-mapping. My version of art is to break down a project into a thought tree - when people see one that I have created they always get a puzzled look and say the way I think is interesting.