This one-day masterclass empowers leaders, managers and future trailblazers with the tools, initiatives and tangible actions they can take in order to...

Leading for Innovation - How to Create a Culture where Ideas and Innovation Thrive

Location:

Think Pod
2000 NSW
Australia

Leading for Innovation - How to Create a Culture where Ideas and Innovation Thrive

Featuring

Nicole Velik, The Ideas Bodega

Nicole Velik

Founder and Director

Nicole Velik is a creativity and innovation speaker, trainer and consultant. She is the founder of an innovation company, The Ideas Bodega. Nicole believes we are all creative and with simple and practical tools and techniques she helps her clients to innovate and solve business challenges creatively.

Nicole has facilitated and trained organizations across The United States, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Africa and Asia. Her clients include The United Nations, Nike, AMP, Westpac, Nestle, BBDO, TBWA, Coca-Cola, Caltex, Pepsi, JWT, One Green Bean, Woolworths, Edelman PR, eBay, Havas Worldwide, NSW Government, STW Group, Lion, Johnson & Johnson, Hill + Knowlton, Foxtel, Seven Network, BBC and Google.

She is also the host of CreativeMornings Sydney, part of a global, monthly talk series for creative industries. 

Nicole spent many years working in New York City where she helped her clients keep a competitive edge by thinking creatively and creating cultures where innovation would flourish. While in New York she was asked to work with her dream client, The United Nations. Her task was to arm them with creative thinking skills and generate big ideas for a UN global initiative, World Humanitarian Day.

Nicole is a regular speaker on creativity and innovation and has educated, entertained and inspired audiences at global conferences such as Vivid Ideas, Ad:Tech, Promax BDA, Creative Innovation 2015, CREA and Emergence Creative.

A recognised thought leader on creativity and innovation, Nicole is regularly interviewed and has been part of round table discussions for the Australian Financial Review, The ABC, CMO Magazine and the Collective Magazine.

When she’s not overhauling brands and nurturing ideas, Nicole can be found pursuing her other passion, music. Her song ‘Tonight’ was used on a national Channel Ten promo for the American TV drama, Medium.

Event Details

This one-day masterclass empowers leaders, managers and future trailblazers with the tools, initiatives and tangible actions they can take in order to turn their team and organisation into a creative powerhouse!

Nicole Velik from innovation consultancy, The Ideas Bodega will help you to inject creativity into the workplace by gaining insights from some of the most innovative companies around the world. Uncover techniques that can be easily implemented in your own organisation and see how each of us has the ability to create an inspiring ideas culture.
This workshop will be inspiring, stimulating and highly interactive. You will be encouraged to share ideas and learn from each other.

You will learn the following:

  • The mindset of a creative leader
  • How to generate game-changing ideas by looking outside your own industry
  • How to manage collaboration across departments and leverage the diversity in your organisation for creativity
  • How to build an environment where audacious ideas can live and breathe
  • How to give feedback for creativity — the right way
  • How to create a culture where ideas are proactively coming from everyone in every department
  • Why we need to promote and recognise failure and how to do it
  • How to carve out time and create rituals for creativity in the busy week
  • Why we need to “unlearn” in order to innovate and how to do it
  • Learn specific tools and techniques to generate creative and disruptive ideas — these are practical techniques that you can implement when back in the office
  • Three action steps to achieve when you get back to the office.

Strictly limited spaces.

Lunch will be provided.

Please email nicole@theideasbodega.com.au if you have any questions.

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