INNOVATING the way your employees innovate.
Saturate your culture, harvest innovation.
E-Learning
Self-paced e-learning modules teach and provide innovation fundamentals, confidence and tools, all within a fun, interactive environment.
Design
Consultancy
Areas of focus: Strategic Innovation Management, Product Development, Innovation Cultures and Change Management, Innovation Governance, Innovation Metrics & ROI, Process Creation & Deployment.
E-Learning Tracks
Our SaaS based self-learning modules are focused on teaching innovation among large and small organizations.
FUNdamentals
Innovation 101
Social Innovation
Crowd Sourcing Techniques
Design Thinking
Daily Employee Techniques
About
A constant stream of driving innovation in organizations and marketplaces.
2008-2009
Our Humble Beginnings
Founding members, partnered and built first ever e-commerce site for Nielsen.
2010-2014
Separate, but Shared Journey's
Each founding member separately further refined their innovation expertise (see bios) from teaching and coaching F500 customers to University students about HOW TO- effectively innovate.
2015
A Service is Born
Cheered on by colleagues and demanded by customers, founding members decide to launch Squared Watermelon on a shared passion and belief that INNOVATION is not somewhere over the rainbow, but about the here and now.
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Story!
Our Amazing Team
Leading by doing.
Ann Marie Dumais
Lead Trainer
Chuck Hudson
Lead Implementation
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Let us help you drive innovation from within your organization.
Ann Marie Dumais
Considered a maverick executive, with a long record of innovation.
Ann Marie easily builds collaborative teams, hyper-focused on fulfilling unmet needs and delivering customer value. Equally creative and analytical, with a forward-thinking approach to resolving issues and overcoming tough challenges – all the while infusing a shared sense of intensity, purpose, and plain ol’ fun!
Testimonials
“Any organization would be lucky to have her.”
“A creative and driven leader with a strong track record of delivery” Brenda Burke, SVP Corporate Platforms, Nielsen
“An innovator, decision maker and influencer”
“One of the most energetic, dynamic people I have met along the way”
“Fearless when it comes to doing the right thing for the company”
Lisa Calabrese - Executive Business Management and Technology Consultant
“A visionary for our business”
“One of the most creative and results driven people I have had the pleasure of working with”
“Unique skill of working across organizations and motivating groups of people that have a variety of agendas to deliver on a common cause”
Brian Condon – EVP of Commercial Development, Nielsen
“A knack for building incredible teams with versatile and complementary skill sets.”
“She is not afraid to challenge the status quo, and inspire all to be better and succeed.”
Dan O’Toole - SVP of Client Service, Nielsen Neuroscience
At Nielsen, a $6+ billion Fortune 500 company, Ann Marie served as Leader of New Products Development and Innovation and was responsible for developing and creating and executing product development frameworks that integrated all key functional areas for rapid end-to-end development of 50+ programs and 100K+ projects. These efforts included identifying and establishing the industry’s first innovation and governance function to enable and streamline global ideation, collaboration, measurement and through-put.
Earlier in her career Ann Marie designed and launched 8 independent new products for Nielsen, including a sponsorship ‘ratings’ service, partnership with Corporate Executive Board and e-commerce site for informational services. Combined these efforts led to $100M in lifetime revenue.
More recently, Ann Marie has combined her passion for innovation and product development in providing advisory services to F1000 customers while at Brightidea, a SaaS based Innovation Management provider. She has been frequently published as an Innovation thought leader and the first to form an Industry Roundtable dedicated exclusively to Innovation Management with SAP, Cisco and GE.
Ann Marie holds an MBA from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Northeastern University. She is also a certified Master Blackbelt in Lean/Six Sigma.
Chuck Hudson
Considered a maverick executive, with a long record of innovation.
Ann Marie easily builds collaborative teams, hyper-focused on fulfilling unmet needs and delivering customer value. Equally creative and analytical, with a forward-thinking approach to resolving issues and overcoming tough challenges – all the while infusing a shared sense of intensity, purpose, and plain ol’ fun!
Testimonials
“Any organization would be lucky to have her.”
“A creative and driven leader with a strong track record of delivery” Brenda Burke, SVP Corporate Platforms, Nielsen
“An innovator, decision maker and influencer”
“One of the most energetic, dynamic people I have met along the way”
“Fearless when it comes to doing the right thing for the company”
Lisa Calabrese - Executive Business Management and Technology Consultant
“A visionary for our business”
“One of the most creative and results driven people I have had the pleasure of working with”
“Unique skill of working across organizations and motivating groups of people that have a variety of agendas to deliver on a common cause”
Brian Condon – EVP of Commercial Development, Nielsen
“A knack for building incredible teams with versatile and complementary skill sets.”
“She is not afraid to challenge the status quo, and inspire all to be better and succeed.”
Dan O’Toole - SVP of Client Service, Nielsen Neuroscience
At Nielsen, a $6+ billion Fortune 500 company, Ann Marie served as Leader of New Products Development and Innovation and was responsible for developing and creating and executing product development frameworks that integrated all key functional areas for rapid end-to-end development of 50+ programs and 100K+ projects. These efforts included identifying and establishing the industry’s first innovation and governance function to enable and streamline global ideation, collaboration, measurement and through-put.
Earlier in her career Ann Marie designed and launched 8 independent new products for Nielsen, including a sponsorship ‘ratings’ service, partnership with Corporate Executive Board and e-commerce site for informational services. Combined these efforts led to $100M in lifetime revenue.
More recently, Ann Marie has combined her passion for innovation and product development in providing advisory services to F1000 customers while at Brightidea, a SaaS based Innovation Management provider. She has been frequently published as an Innovation thought leader and the first to form an Industry Roundtable dedicated exclusively to Innovation Management with SAP, Cisco and GE.
Ann Marie holds an MBA from Northeastern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Northeastern University. She is also a certified Master Blackbelt in Lean/Six Sigma.
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