Having recently participated in the US Council on Competitiveness' Innovation Summit and looking forward to chairing the fall PRSA International Conference, whose theme this year is "Innovation, Collaboration, Influence," innovation is top of mind for me.

Thirty years in tech PR have also afforded me fantastic opportunities to work with world-class innovators such as Tim Berners-Lee, Ray Ozzie, Nicholas Negroponte, Steve Jobs, and Steve Case, to name a few.

I've always been a huge proponent of innovation within PR. In the ...