Charles Kovess

Australia’s Passion Provocateur; Author: Passionate People Produce, and Passionate Performance, and co-author of The 7 Heavenly Virtues of Leadership.

28 November (9.00am – 12.00pm) including morning refreshments

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In this Masterclass, Charles Kovess will inspire you, enthuse you, envision you, provoke you and teach you strategies and mechanisms that will increase your ability to access your strength and your resilience. Times are definitely changing and the demands on leaders are increasing. Imagine being able to ‘go with the flow’ that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi so famously identified, and ‘flow’ with these demands! How can you stand out by behaving like most other leaders? It takes great courage to follow the beat of your own drum, and not follow the crowd. When you are different, you can experience ‘stand out’ results!

Key outcomes and issues to be covered include:

• How to avoid the pressure to conform to the behaviours of most leaders
• Why courage is so important for leaders and the subconscious pressure to conform
• Courage is required to be different, to think different
• Understand the direct links between passion and courage
• Understand the direct links between passion and resilience
• Examples of global leaders who were different, and how they generated outstanding shareholder returns
• How can you expect to generate ‘above average returns’ if you behave in an ‘average’ way?
• How you can be ‘outstanding’ as a leader by not following the crowd

Tim Reid

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

28 November (9.00am – 12.00pm) including morning refreshments

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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. And in a world of sameness, having an edge through innovation is critical. It’s one of the last bastions of creating a point-of-difference!

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 Tim’s Killer Innovations session, the concept of a ‘me too’ idea is thrown out the door … the killer innovation must be a breakthrough 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 a business challenge and an open mind, ready to improve the marketing of your business.

Andrew & Gaia Grant

Authors Andrew & Gaia Grant have travelled the world from the classroom to the boardroom, teaching at many levels from tribal education to CEO corporate coaching to discover ‘Who Killed Creativity?… and how to get it back!’ (book | keynote |workshop | board game)

28 November (9.00am – 12.00pm) including morning refreshments

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From the authors of the intriguing new book Who Killed Creativity? now comes the interactive keynote workshop and simulation exercise. Based around an engaging CSI / Cluedo style board game, in this session participants match their expertise against the latest neuroscientific research to discover the need for creative thinking and strategies for developing it as individuals and organisations.

What the masterclass will involve:

• Participation in the discovery process of what inhibits creative thinking and innovation in individuals, teams and organisations
• Information about the latest neuroscientific and psychological research on creative thinking
• Strategies for developing creative thinking in yourself and others
• Specific solutions for identifying blocks in creative thinking and innovation in participant organisations

Leigh Gassner & Steve Atkinson

Steve Atkinson and Leigh Gassner are partners in Reos Partners, Melbourne. Reos Partners is an international organisation dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems.

28 November (9.00am – 12.00pm) including morning refreshments

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This Master class will show how the Change Lab, a participatory, creative, systemic, and action-oriented process used globally by Reos Partners, can tackle the toughest local and global challenges through transforming social systems. Globally we are being challenged to transform complex social systems through innovative and sustainable action that realises our aspirations and hopes of actually making a difference.

By using systems thinking in Change Labs this Masterclass will expose participants to how:

• They can surface the complexity in social systems to be understood and confronted; and,
• Through collaboration and innovation, co-create and institutionalise the transformation needed for stuck and complex social systems.

Global case studies of the Change Lab and related social change experience will also be discussed.

Scott Anthony

Innovation thought leader Scott Anthony blends academic research and field work with leading companies to provide practical, proven approaches to improve the predictability and productivity of innovation. He has authored five books on the subject, including The Little Black Book of Innovation and Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Press).

28 November (9.00am – 12.00pm) including morning refreshments

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It sounds so seductive – a “culture of innovation.” The three words immediately conjure up images of innovation savants like 3M, Pixar, Apple, and Google. The sorts of places where innovation isn’t an unnatural act, but part of the very fabric of a company. It seems a panacea to many companies that struggle with innovation. But what exactly is a culture of innovation, and how does a company build it?

In this Master Class, Scott Anthony will describe the essential elements of a culture where innovation happens naturally and regularly. He will provide practical tips to help you identify and address the barriers facing your organization. Specifically, attendees will receive:

• Tips to identify, motivate, and develop innovation talent inside your organization
• Simple diagnostic instruments to assess your organization’s innovation capacity
• Lessons from innovative leaders like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi