Get Creative with Jeffrey...

Solve Problems through Anticonventional Thinking - an Alternative to Brainstorming

You know that you have a great team of creative people. But sometimes you need a capable facilitator who can push your team to generate creative ideas to solve specific problems or achieve stated goals. You also appreciate that an intelligent outsider will see your challenges in a different perspective and can use that to provide you and your team with fresh insights that spark a higher level creative thinking. Jeffrey Baumgartner can do all of this and more for you.

Jeffrey is not like your typical facilitator who focuses on gimicks and generating more ideas than you know what to do with. Rather, he will work with your team to understand the underlying issues behind your problem and how they relate to strategy. Then he will guide you through his anticonventional thinking process to enable you to generate a very few viable but creative solutions that you can work with. He understands that leaving you with dozens of random ideas to sort out is not a useful result. Leaving you with a solution and first steps, on the other hand, is the kind of result you probably prefer.

If this sounds like what you need, contact Jeffrey to discuss your situation -- in complete confidence.

Warning: please note that there is a very real danger that you and your colleagues may enjoy the creative thinking experience with Jeffrey. Outbreaks of smiles and even laughter are a frequent side effect of Jeffrey's anticonventional thinking workshops.

Jeffrey's most recent anticonventional thinking workshop was about saving the Algarve, a region of Portugal. Read the case study here.

Or read this case study using brainstorming (from the days before Jeffrey developed and published his anticonventional thinking paper).

A Thought-Provoking and Entertaining Speaker

If you are organising a corporate wide event or a national conference and want to include a thought provoking and entertaining speaker, Jeffrey might be just the person that you need. As you can see here (opens in new window) and here (opens in new window), he is widely knowledgeable about creativity and innovation and can provide unusual insights that inspire the audience.

Importantly, over the years, Jeffrey has spoken at major conferences and small events throughout Europe as well as in Asia and North America. He has spoken on radio and television and regularly opens events at the Brussels Imagination Club, which he co-founded.

Jeffrey has recently spoken at the South Africa Innovation Summit and delivered workshops at the European Conference of Creativity and Innovation.

Interested? Contact Jeffrey to discuss your event and how he might make it even better.

Training Workshops

You know that your people have great creative potential. You also know that if they could learn to use that creativity better to solve problems and work towards strategic goals, the benefits to your company would be enormous.

One great way to achieve this is to hire Jeffrey to run one or more creativity training workshops for the people in your organisation. His specialty is anticonventional thinking, a new approach to creativity. But he can also deliver workshops on a number of other topics related to creativity and training, such as teaching middle managers to be more receptive to creativity, structuring an innovation process (see his book, The Way of the Innovation Master) and much more.

In addition to teaching creative thinking skills, Jeffrey can also design workshops to enable people to use creativity in order to accomplish specific tasks. He has used this approach to help people improve sales techniques, improve communications and design web applications.

If you want to help your people get more out of their creative potential, contact Jeffrey and talk to him. He's keen to listen.

Jeffrey talks about Anticonventional Thinking at the European Conference on Creativity and Innovation 2011