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Sean Hyde is a business strategist, systems thinker and educator based in Charleston. Since 2011 he has worked with more than 500 businesses and organizations. He is the founder of Ideation Digital and the creator of LIFT, a framework for finding the highest-leverage move in a business.

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Sean Hyde is a business strategist, systems thinker, implementer and educator based in Charleston. Since 2011 he has worked with more than 500 businesses and organizations, first through digital marketing and increasingly through the systems, automation and practical AI that let a business run without everything depending on one person, tool or vendor.

He is the founder of Ideation Digital, which handles implementation when a strategy calls for building something, and the creator of LIFT (List, Isolate, Fuel, Tune), a four-step approach to finding the highest-leverage move in a business and acting on it. His philosophy: understand first, recommend second.

Sean leads workshops on practical AI and growth at the University of Charleston Downtown Innovation Hub and is co-authoring University of Charleston research on the gap between using AI and actually implementing it. He has spoken at the WVSAE Annual Meeting at The Greenbrier, Bridging Innovation Week and the University of Charleston, and is on the 2026 Big I WV Annual Convention program. He has judged the i3 Innovation Showcase and the Kanawha County Schools Gifted Program Shark Tank. He is also a dad.

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