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90% of mistakes are errors of perception. Problems are fuel for innovative thinking. How you approach a challenge or concern, your attitude towards a problem, conditions the quality of your questions and answers. In turn, your thinking designs the outcome of your actions and defines your outlook on life.• Upgrade your mindset and advance your ideas with higher order design thinking skills.• Resolve conflict by evolving thinking to reach common consensus.• Make difficult decisions with broader perspective and greater precision.• Overcome overwhelm and procrastination with clarity and creativity.• Facilitate fresh thinking with mind maps and strategy maps.• Better work together for win-win advances and greater group growth.DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLSDesign thinking combines critical thinking skills with creative thinking skills to deliver direction from decisions deferred to the outcome of iterative actions. Success evolves per effect.If you have understood the benefit of creating a constructive company culture and are looking to engage proven effective mindset methodology to delivers direct results then let’s connect and I’ll share knowhow.

Companies with constructive, diverse, creative and collaborative cultures at their core, consistently outperform their more defensive, competitive counterparts. Challenges arise when bias is compounded by systemic frameworks conditioning group thinking and communication. Global Brainstorm events disrupt the status quo to reveal authentic opinions and collective intentions as highly valuable insight worthy of considering when anticipating any unknown or what’s most likely to occur.Originally a Global Entrepreneurship Week experience, we now work with individuals, organisations, communities and conferences around the world. Bringing people together to concentrate on a shared concern compellingly sparks genius. Time after time, obvious answers and simple solutions emerge as future forecasters to leave a lasting legacy.The Global Brainstorm used MINDS methodology and the Whether System™ to upgrade mindsets, advance ideas and create constructive cultures around the world.

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Across the UK, teams suffer from undue stress, disengagement and demotivation. Unhappiness, uninspired action and shirking responsibility is leading to a general lack of productivity costing wasted talent, wasted salary and lost sales. It’s not just the UK, it plagues workplaces globally.A lack of diversity and disparity coupled with directive, defensive attitudes attribute to a lack of innovation leading to lost collaboration contributing to growth. Happiness precedes career success and companies with constructive, creative cultures at their core, consistently outperform their more defensive, competitive counterparts. With these problems in mind, motivation to innovate was abundant. The Whether System, Success Cycles, Happiness Wheels and other MINDS methods were born to be tried, tested and optimised as value-creating addons to people-orientated organisations.The MINDS method is a team-based, participatory, staged intervention designed to improve organizational culture by supporting innovation and removing barriers to effective service provision. Proven to increase job satisfaction and improve service delivery outcomes this process works best when combined with the Whether System™. The Whether System™ is a critical and creative thinking process designed to combine perspectives, create constructive communication, deliver clarity and collective conclusions, quickly, easily and with everybody actively engaged.Read more about it in the book:

Strategy and Mindset Trainer: helping Individuals’ and Groups transition as Innovators into successful Entrepreneurs able to Profit from their ideas. Working with school leavers to career reformers and people whose professional careers have been Disrupted by Innovative Ideas.From Brainwave to Business, published as part of the Financial Times Series and shortlisted by the Chartered Management Insitute for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship book of the year was written for the benefit of all creative people looking to turn their ingenious ideas into a profitable business. The book will give you indepth insight into the challenge of developing an idea for market.

Sitting in my Grandmothers kitchen circa 2000, watching her struggling with osteo arthritis, to lift a hot and heavy pan from the steaming stove, I had an epiphany; an aHA moment that changed the course of my life.“Bend the pan not the man!” - the thought stuck strong.Why are we forced to bend our wrist awkwardly in order to grip a straight-handled saucepan? Our grip is approximately 45% weaker than when our wrist is straight. I knew this because I’d studied ergonomics as part of my Industrial Design degree at Loughborough University and it came up in various professional projects I’d been involved in, namely designing snowboarding protection.The concept was screamingly obvious, the way to realise it, less so. I embarked on an entrepreneurial adventure with blind optimism, oblivious to many perils and pitfalls until I encountered them. Scrabbling through with what so-called ‘scaffolding’, the business grew with fast learning, rapid adapting, constant improving and onward moving. From investor pitches to navigating and negotiating manufacturing in the Far East, sales with distributors and department stores, online marketing, team building and closing the gap between the vision and mission; from big picture to the detail needed to deliver ergonomic cookware to the end-user.

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