
Creative catalyst
United Kingdom

Creative catalyst
United Kingdom
I’ve spent the past 20 years working as a creative catalyst, helping bring forth the new with an approach to problem solving, development, innovation and change I call Now-to-New. This seeks to turn Now (the current state of affairs) into New (the desired state of affairs) as quickly and effortlessly as possible.
"New" means new ventures, new business models, new strategies, new products and services, new customer experiences, new ways of working ... new anything.
I have worked with a very wide range of corporations, public service providers and third sector organisations, including ABN Amro Bank, Diageo, European Commission, GlaxoSmithKline, National Health Service, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Royal Dutch Shell.
I’m an innovation practitioner as well as a creative catalyst, and I’ve created numerous models, methods and tools for people working in businesses and non-profit organisations. Here are some of them: Innovation 123, the Groundwork process, the Stakeholder Value Specification, The Sorcerer's Seven Powers, and – in partnership with Jeffrey Hyman, chairman of the Food & Drink Innovation Network – a method called Fast Innovation with Open Space.
My home is in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Creative process design, facilitation, coaching, project management, event organisation, collaborative innovation and change
Music (most genres), dancing, inventing stuff, blogging about innovation
Moon Shots, Bristol Media, Osuki, Amplified, Pervasive Media Studio