Ernie Schwartz

One of the founders of leadership consultancy, Red Sky, Ernie has worked with hundreds of executives from a wide range of global clients such as IBM, L’Oréal and Macquarie Bank, offering insights that stimulate creative solutions.

November 16, 9.30am – 12.30pm including morning refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS:

In a world where change is constant, the need for adaptable leadership is a given. Underlying this is the elusive principle of Executive Presence. In this highly experiential session, Ernie will demystify the notion and inspire you to discover the true source of your own executive presence.

At the end of the session you will:

• Gain greater awareness of the link between your core beliefs, values and leadership behaviours.
• Continue the journey of self-discovery that leads to authenticity and “presence”.
• Provide you with the foundation for creative and innovative leadership.

Gabrielle Dolan and Yamini Naidu

Gabrielle Dolan & Yamini Naidu are co-founders and Directors of One Thousand & One. One Thousand & One is Australia’s first organisational storytelling company and helps companies increase performance through storytelling.

16 November (9.30am – 12.30pm) including morning refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Stories and storytelling can inspire, influence, motivate and engage people where logic and bullet points may not. Think of your own experience. Isn’t it always the story, the anecdote, the example that you remember long after the event?

Organisational storytelling is storytelling with a business purpose and for business results. Whatever it is you are trying to do in business, whether you are leading people, managing change, influencing the board or building your career, we guarantee that storytelling can help you do it better. Storytelling is the creative solution to your business challenges, yet you don’t have to be creative to be a good storyteller!

In this practical, interactive workshop, you will:

• Discover organisational storytelling – a hot emerging business and leadership skill
• Explore the use of storytelling as an influence tool
• Identify applications for storytelling within your business
• Get cut through where facts and data have failed
• Fast track trust and credibility

Mo Fox

Accomplished mixed media artist with a background in strategy; author, speaker, trainer and coach; Director of The Strategy Studio and the creator of Studio Thinking™, a methodology that uses art practices to achieve business results.

16 November (9.30am – 12.30pm) including morning refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Even the bastions of business like McKinsey’s and IBM agree that your success in the next decade will be determined by how differently and creatively you think.  Which is why you need to think like an artist. Thinking like an artist means you can tap into your own creative intuition, get to the heart of whatever you are doing and then use the resources you already have to create what you want.  And above all, it means you can see things differently.

Which is why I’ll teach you how to draw. Well. In just 3 hours.
Impossible? Not even remotely. Everyone who can write legibly can draw.  The trick is learning to see and then to use the skills you already have to transform the outcomes you’re getting into results beyond anything you thought possible.  (Now where else in your life and business would that be useful?)

You’ll walk away with:

• A professional standard drawing that you have made (and more)
• A new way of seeing
• New distinctions around the work you currently do
• An understanding of how to move yourself – and the people around you – from resistance to resourcefulness
• An appreciation of your own creative potential
• An understanding of how to be much more agile and effective in everything you do – instantly!

Tim Reid

aka “The Ideas Guy”, leading ideas and marketing expert, creator and host of Australia ’s #1 Marketing show Small Business Big Marketing.

16 November (9.30am – 12.30pm) including morning refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Where a typical brainstorming session often only delivers incremental ideas, they rarely result in breakthrough thinking. On the flip side, a Killer Innovations session results in a significant and highly profitable departure from your current practice that will be difficult to imitate.

Finding true killer innovations is tough work. Human instinct has us finding the quick answer….then we stop looking once we’ve found the first answer that approximates the best answer to a given question. We fail to look beyond the obvious…because looking beyond the obvious is scary, it may leave us looking like a fool. It may produce something extraordinary.

In a Killer Innovations session, the concept of a ‘me too’ idea is thrown out the door…the killer innovation must be a break-through idea that is instantly recognized by the market place.

USING THE KILLER INNOVATIONS APPROACH IS AKIN TO BRAIN STORMING ON STEROIDS!
So, come along with an open mind and ready to make the world a better place.

Dr Edward de Bono (UK)

The leading authority in the field of creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill; Founder of the Six Thinking Hats® technique; Originator of the concept – and formal tools – of Lateral Thinking; Best-selling author: The Use of Lateral Thinking.

16 November (9.30am – 12.30pm) including morning refreshments

ABOUT THE MASTER CLASS
Would you like to tap into your vast resources of creative potential?
Would you like to explore new and better ways of thinking and extend your repertoire of thinking skills and strategies?

Creative Thinking is a valuable resource, which is becoming increasingly more important if we are to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by our fast-changing world.

Dr Edward de Bono will present a Master Class in Creativity at Creative Innovation 2011. This Master Class is a rare opportunity to learn practical strategies and tools from the master of creative thinking himself, tools which will be invaluable in your professional, social, academic and personal life.

Professor Edward de Bono, one of the world’s most pre-eminent thinkers, is the inventor of Lateral Thinking and the very popular “Six Thinking Hats” framework. Based on an understanding of how the brain works as a self-organising information system, Edward de Bono has designed powerful and simple specific thinking tools to maximize the creative process, which can be learned by anyone and used in a deliberate manner.

The Master Class will be useful to all those who are interested in improving and expanding their potential for innovative, conceptual, critical and creative thinking.

“I believe Dr de Bono’s work in teaching people to think may be the most important thing happening in the world today.” George Gallup

“If you haven’t heard of Edward de Bono or of Lateral Thinking, perhaps you have been too busy thinking in conventional ways.” Forbes Magazine