High IQ? High EQ? What about your +AQ?Smart people and smart businesses can be less than intelligent when it comes to building the right behavioural foundations...

What’s Your +AQ? Get Yourself and Your Organisation Fit For Innovation

Location:

The Rocks 2000
Australia

Featuring

Matthew Whale

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HOW TO IMPACT

Matt is the founder and managing director of How To Impact. He is a leader of innovation strategy, insight and delivery, with a 20+ year career in creative thinking, cross-functional project leadership and coaching. He has worked closely with leading companies in Australia and Europe and brings a combination of left and right-brain thinking that has helped to unlock innovation challenges in over 200 different innovation briefs.

Dr Joel Pearson

Director & Founder, UNSW Science of Innovation Lab

Joel is the director & founder of the UNSW Science of Innovation Lab. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. He also leads the Pearson Lab, a multidisciplinary agile Cognitive Neuroscience research group that does both fundamental and clinical research, consults with companies, artists and designers on brain science.

Dr Joel Davies

Psychologist and Lead Scientist, UNSW Science of Innovation Lab

Joel is a Psychologist and Lead Scientist at The UNSW Science of Innovation Lab. He has worked as an organisational development consultant for numerous large public and private sector organisations as well being the co-founder of technology start-up Cred Solutions. Joel completed both his Masters and PhD in organisational psychology at UNSW where he also lectures on innovation and organisational behaviour.

Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

Event Details

High IQ? High EQ? What about your +AQ?

Smart people and smart businesses can be less than intelligent when it comes to building the right behavioural foundations for innovation. Often there is a serious gap between an organisation’s ambition to innovate and the reality of the systems and structures they put in place. This gap between what organisations say and how they actually behave is where Positive Ambiguity (+AQ) comes into play.

After more than 10 years and 200 innovation projects, we set out to help bridge the gap. Presented for the first time at Vivid Sydney 2018, the Positive Ambiguity Index identifies critical attitudinal barriers and enablers within a dynamic scoring system to help you lead for and deliver innovation.

The +AQ Index was developed through interviews with more than 50 leaders of innovation in Australia, research across diverse academic sources, an in-depth quantitative study with the UNSW Science of Innovation Lab and a pilot programme to design and test new cultural innovation solutions. Now you can put it to the test.

In this workshop, you’ll:
• discover actionable insights and learnings uncovered through the research process
• have the chance to calculate your own Positive Ambiguity score
• lead an interactive exploration of current issues within your organisation and your team
• road-test proposed solutions and new tools that you can apply from today
• build tangible action plans tailored to your specific organisational challenges.

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Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.