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Innovate Solutions for Covid-19 - Special Edition

Here’s a real-world innovation challenge - how on earth do you make this happen?Take top innovators from 11 countries, give them just 2 months, to generate 748 ideas, and decide on 5 practical solutions to the impact of Covid-19. Available free to anyone in the world.Well it's been done! We're privileged today, to share this world-first announcement, from Coenie Middel, Chairman of Middel & Partners in South Africa.Coenie is a Chartered Accountant with a passion for innovation. And he's going to share with us how he organised his new project under great pressure.Coenie founded Middel & Partners as a sole practitioner in 1992.He does not fit the standard mould of a conservative Chartered Accountant. Being awarded as one of the most “Inspiring Accountants in the World” in 2016, highlights a few of his passions for business.Coenie assists companies to innovate, craft business models that deliver value to all stakeholders by linking strategy with resources and core capabilities.Making innovation a key strategy of short- and long-term success, and establishing frameworks for radical and incremental innovation. Coenie is the first accredited FORTH Innovation Methodology facilitator in Central and Southern Africa.He has amassed specialist experience in the Mining, Agriculture, Construction, Healthcare, Public Sectors, as well as the Media & Entertainment industry. Coenie consults to international and nationally listed companies, large private clients, owner managed entities and government.You can find out more about the 5 Business Cases, or reach out to Coenie, head to https://forthinnovation.com

Creativity Inside Your Box with Michael Lee

If you feel creativity is out of your reach, then you need to listen and be motivated by this week’s episode with Michael Lee, from Create Your Creativity.He’s the creator of the Innovation Explosion, a #BeyondDesignThinking workshop that restores your natural creative genius, and helps you maintain it going forward. Participants have doubled their mean creativity scores during the 8-week training.As a Human Capacity Redesigner he helps businesses transform to create and implement breakthrough ideas.Michael is also the Chief Visionary Officer of the Human Innovation Project. Which is a creativity-centred human capacity redesign partnership, helping companies transition to 4IR readiness through high-impact training, consulting, coaching, analysis, and implementation. HIP is a partnership between Create Your Creativity and the South African Creative Industries Incubator run by Beth and Freddy Arendse.They ‘re-humanize’ organisations by re-organizing their humans.The unique TRANSFORMATIONAL change management work brings together the best of international innovation strategic and creative expertise, and African indigenous approaches.You can find out more about Michael Lee at https://createyourcreativity.tv/During the show Michael also talks about his involvement with Kindness Contagion Africa. The UN sent out a call for stars around the globe to share vital information about Covid-19. And Michael has taken action by working with African musicians to create kindnesscontagion.africa The soundtrack will go live on Africa Day 25th May.Hungry for more on innovation? Head to https://engage4insights.com

Stewart Marshall - The Secret To Successful Tech

Is your bright tech idea worth the investment?When we think innovation, many of us automatically think of tech. And there’s no doubt that it’s driven a lot of cool ideas.Which is why Eriks and I wanted to chat to today’s guest, Stewart Marshall from SaaS accelerator.When we think innovation, many of us automatically think of tech. And there’s no doubt that it’s driven a lot of cool ideas.Which is why Eriks and I wanted to chat to today’s guest Stewart Marshall from SaaS accelerator.He’s a commercial software expert, innovator and the bestselling author of “Doing IT for Money”He’s spent much of his 30 years in IT in the software industry, creating, designing and building rapid development tools.Creating solutions used by thousands of businesses around the world, including Proctor and Gamble, Kawasaki, Kellogg’s and many leading banks.You can find out more about what Stewart does atWebsite - https://saasaccelerator.com.au/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-marshall/

Geoffrey Wade - De-risk Innovation

This week’s guest, Geoffrey Wade is an interesting guy, which makes this episode entertaining as well as informative.He’s led many businesses through change and innovation, and this took him to question risk management as part of innovation. The outcome is a partnership in a program that simulates the innovation. The implications are dramatic…but don’t take our word for it…have a listen and gauge for yourself.Geoff brings an unusual and valuable mix of qualifications in science, engineering, business administration, cognitive science, and NLP together more than 30 years commercial experience to give him a unique perspective on innovation in business.His engineering helps him understand the hard, measurable physical aspect of reality and process plus the cybernetics of large, messy, probabilistic systems that are goal oriented (systems like organisations). His business qualifications and experience helps understand the critical business drivers and levers. His human performance studies help appreciate how people make sense of the world, how they know what they know and do what they do, how they achieve high performance, and how they can make fast and lasting change. It is the intersection of these fields that gives him a unique ability to help leaders attend to and master foundations of innovation, high velocity change and quantum leap performance improvement.You can connect with Geoffrey on LinkedIn https://au.linkedin.com/in/geoffreywadeAnd to find out more about his work check out his website https://www.onirik.com.au/He mentions a game to “Eliciting a Flow State”, if you want to have a play you can download here

JoAnna Brandi - How Your Mood Affects Innovation

This week’s guest, JoAnna Brandi from Return On Happiness has the best job title ever - she’s a Chief Happiness Officer!We’ve all experienced that when you’re happy and having some fun, life just looks different.Your ability to solve problems, be creative and ultimately innovate, is directly related to how you feel.Creating a happy team is the cornerstone to innovation. Happiness energizes and empowers them while also keeping customers happy. It’s a win-win.Happiness is the ultimate competitive advantage. That will increase employee engagement, productivity and accuracy.And a happy team creates a more customer-focused, positive workplace culture, which drives more revenue to your bottom line.Since 1990, JoAnna has been driving cultural change to implement Positive Customer Experiences. For companies that want to thrive, not simply survive.The result? Your employees are engaged, customers are loyal, and competitors are downright nervous.JoAnna has lots of free material on her website https://www.returnonhappiness.com/

Enhance Innovation With The Breath - Angie & Shane Saunders

Did you know you already have, all the tools you need, to be healthy, happy, creative, all those really valuable parts of life. You don’t have to buy anything, you can start doing it, right now.My guests today Angie & Shane Saunders are founders of Breathe Me, they’re Award Winning Authors and host their own Podcast The Breathing Edge.Shane’s experience starts with 13 Years in the Australian Defence Force, military training at the highest level, SAS, tactical assault, special forces, and military duty in the Middle East. Angie left working in LA with some of Hollywood’s top producers to start a new life in Australia.They left their old lives behind to teach people, how to use breath, to literally change the way you live. And I’ve seen this in action myself, so I know it works.Learning to breath, for those of you new to doing more than just what comes naturally, might seem a bit crazy. So I just ask you to have an open mind, and let's uncover the secrets together.You can connect with them through their free online traininghttp://bit.ly/breathe-through-turbulenceOr, via their Facebook page and websitehttps://www.facebook.com/breathemepage/https://www.breatheme.com/

David Jenyns - Room To Be Creative With Systems

There are lots of aspects to running a business. But one I personally feel gets left out of the early stages, are systems.That’s not taking the creative out, but in fact allows you more room to be creative.Systems are an integral part of all business … well the ones that are successful!In this episode Eriks & Judy talk to David Jenyns seasoned entrepreneur, spanning from retail, to founding one of Australia’s most trusted digital agencies, Melbourne SEO & Video. As well as an Amazon bestseller.And the person behind SystemHub. An innovative approach to managing systems.To quote Benjamin Franklin … “Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship”This to me can be how systems and processes are viewed by many business…it’s a small thing, we’ll get to that later.David shares practical tips on implementing your own systems. You’ll gain valuable insights no matter what size business you operate.You can find more information about David and his SystemHub at https://www.systemhub.com/ And his Systemology process at https://www.systemology.com/

Covid-19 - Creative Think Tank for Business

At Engage2Innovate Podcast we’ve made a commitment to bring ideas and inspiration to listeners when they need it. Covid-19 Creative Think Tank is the first in a series delving into the biggest issues facing business today.The disruptive effect of Covid-19 has been swift, cutting a brutal swathe through everyday life, the community, and economy. On the back of a horrendous summer, businesses are hanging by a thread.We’re all on edge. And when running a business, you have multiple pressures to protect your family, team, and the enterprise.A time when you most need support, hope, inspiration, ideas – solutions for survival.

Elizabeth Diacos - Reinventing Yourself

Innovation isn’t just about inventing something totally new. It’s often more to do with reinventing, which is Elizabeth Diacos’ specialty.She’s the founder of Larksong Enterprises, and an educator and success coach. “I love learning and hold a Graduate Certificate in Organisational Coaching and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology. I help teachers from across the globe to get out of teaching.”An idea that leads to innovation often comes to us when we are dissatisfied in our current situation, which is where Elizabeth steps in. And even though she specialises in helping teachers, her insightful tips apply to any industry.Here are ways to reach out to Elizabeth and find out more …The rapidly growing Get out of Teaching group of over 2000 members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/getoutofteaching/Website: www.larksong.com.auAnd soon-to-be-launched “Get out of Teaching” podcast www.larksong.com.au/podcast

Geoff McDonald - The Ideas Architect

Eriks and Judy chat to Geoff McDonald - an interesting guy. He’s a trained Architect, but now calls himself an Ideas Architect.His work is a combination of presentations, writing and creating information products for clients.Geoff has presented at international design conferences and a range of clients, including American Institute of Architects, NEC, Leadership Development Centre, AIM, Melbourne Business School and James Hardie.His creative presentations have included a quiz night, game show and diagnostic tools, and he has also facilitated a range of strategic planning events and presented over 100 webinar sessions.Geoff is also a prolific writer, to say the least - the author of ten books, over 80 ebooks and more than 1000 blog posts. His topics include design, productivity, creativity and big picture business trends.He’s an avid reader and best known for his Book Rapper book summary service - downloaded over 100,000 times and distributed through syndication.Currently, Geoff is coaching business experts to create a manifesto as their big business idea. This is a fun chat exploring innovation & creativity that’s guaranteed to motivate!You access all things Geoff McDonald via his website https://geoffmcdonald.com/