The Secret to the Perfect Project Pitch: Practice in an Elevator

The HHS Ignite Accelerator is the HHS IDEA Lab’s 3-month internal innovation startup program. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staff compete to get in. They bring a problem worth exploring and the Accelerator program provides the opportunity for them to carve out and test one or more solutions to those pressing challenges.

Each round of Ignite begins with a 3-day Boot Camp, which is part training, part design sprint. On the third and final morning of the Boot Camp, the teams found themselves “accidentally” in the elevator with HHS Chief Technology Officer Susannah Fox. She politely introduced herself, asked what they were working on, and then casually hit the button to take them to the 8th floor. An elevator pitch ensued.

We captured Carin Kosmoski from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pitching her project–NIOSH Nexus: Helping NIOSH employees make the connection of who does what where.

Learn more about the HHS Ignite Accelerator at: http://www.hhs.gov/idealab/what-we-do/hhs-ignite/.

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