This one day immersive experience will empower individual leaders, managers and future leaders with the tools, initiatives and tangible actions they can...

The Innovation Masterclass

Location:

THE THINK POD
2000 NSW
Australia

Featuring

Nicole Velik

Nicole Velik

Director of The Ideas Bodega

Nicole Velik is a creativity and innovation facilitator, 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 gets her audiences to experience light bulb moments where they too see how creative they really are.

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

Nicole spent four 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. She returned to New York 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 Ad:Tech, VIVID Ideas, 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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Access and Inclusion

  • Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.
  • Companion Card Acceptance - The Companion Card is for people with a significant permanent disability, who always need a companion to provide attendant care type support in order to participate at most available community venues and activities.

Event Details

This one day immersive experience will empower individual leaders, managers and future leaders with the tools, initiatives and tangible actions they can take in order to turn themselves and their team into a creative powerhouse.

You will learn practical ways to think creatively and inject creativity into the workplace by gaining insight into what some of the most innovative organisations around the world are doing.

You will learn techniques that can be easily implemented in the organisation and see how one person can have the ability to create an inspiring ideas culture.

The day is for leaders, managers and future leaders. It will be inspiring, stimulating and highly interactive. You will be encouraged to share ideas and learn from each other.

You will learn:

  • How to have creative confidence and lead by example.
  • How to look outside of your industry in order to generate game-changing ideas.
  • How to manage collaboration and cross pollination 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 reward ideas and creativity (and how not to).
  • How to make idea generation and creativity a part of everyone’s job.
  • How to create platforms for innovation.
  • Why we need to promote and recognise failure and how to do it.
  • How to get staff to pro-actively come up with ideas.
  • How to carve out time for creativity in the busy week and make it habitual.
  • Why we need to “unlearn” in order to innovate and how to do it.

Limited spaces!

Lunch will be provided.

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

 

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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.
  • Companion Card Acceptance - The Companion Card is for people with a significant permanent disability, who always need a companion to provide attendant care type support in order to participate at most available community venues and activities.