What Is Required For True Innovation?: Bruce Berton at TEDxFoggyBottom

With over 25 years of experience in the US State Department, Bruce uses his experience and humor to demonstrate the overuse of the word "innovation" and how we can achieve true innovation in the world today.

Bruce G. Berton is the Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Management Innovation in the State Department. Mr. Berton joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and has served in a variety of positions in a variety of places, including Caracas, Moscow, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Rome, Mexico City, Frankfurt and Warsaw in addition to three years at the State Department's headquarters in Washington, DC. He has served as a Watch Officer in the Department's Operations Center, as a U.S. representative in a multilateral mission, in several management and reporting positions, and as a Consular Officer. Mr. Berton is a native of the Pacific Northwest and is a 1983 magna cum laude graduate of Pacific Lutheran University with an Honors degree in International Relations. Prior to the Foreign Service, he spent three years with the Boeing Company in Seattle. Mr. Berton has two college-aged children.

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