Disciplined Dreaming: Lead Breakthrough Creativity at Work
What you'll learn
- Build a system for expanding your creative capacity, fueling competitive advantage, and producing personal and professional growth.
- Launch your leadership as a forward-thinking, entrepreneurial, creative mind!
- Understand the power of creativity related to engagement, empowerment and employee retention.
- Practice the Disciplined Dreaming process and develop creative solutions to a current challenge.
Requirements
- Desire for building one's creativity muscle.
- Interest in growing your leadership role through nimbleness, grit and creativity!
- Folks ready to rediscover their inner, innate creative nature.
Description
In today's highly competitive world, leaders and organizations will only enjoy sustainable success if they build and harness a culture of innovation. Innovation is the most powerful force to fuel growth, develop competitive advantage, and build personal and professional growth. This interactive training workshop is designed to systematically unlock the creative potential of the student to solve complex problems, seize opportunities and realize profound economic success. This system is based on 5-time tech entrepreneur Josh Linkner’s New York Times bestseller, Disciplined Dreaming. Now translated into 13 languages and regarded as the best new approach to driving breakthrough creativity worldwide, Disciplined Dreaming illustrates a flexible system that can be deployed to solve any challenge, big or small.
This course will take you step by step through the process of unlocking your full creative potential. Fluid enough to enable transformational thinking, yet structured enough to offer a clear process for all levels and roles, this systematic approach will help leaders gain competitive advantage, drive efficiencies, create new products and services, and fuel employee engagement.
As you embark on understanding and leveraging Josh's method, you will:
Understand the 5-step Disciplined Dreaming process.
Reconnect with your creative abilities.
Embrace a systematic approach to conquer challenges and seize opportunities.
Identify and overcome myths and blockers of innovation.
Master unorthodox, yet surprisingly powerful and fun, brainstorming techniques.
Explore best practice approaches to idea selection and executing on innovation.
Internalize the core principles of building a sustainable culture of innovation.
This workshop is for individuals and teams energized to drive change, but struggling to get started.
What if you could:
Build a systematic approach to developing creative problem-solving
Learn critical skills to dramatically improve your innovation capacity
Tackle significant real-world opportunities and challenges with ease
Join Josh on this Disciplined Dreaming journey today and learn how!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in raising the bar on their creativity.
- Business leaders or aspiring leaders hoping to create change.
- Those interested in taking responsible risks to create growth for themselves and their organization.
- Anyone interested in connecting in a deeper way with their clients/customer/target audience.
Instructor
To Josh Linkner, creativity and innovation are the lifeblood of all human progress. As such, he’s spent his career harnessing the power of creative disruption.
His journey has been non-traditional at every step. As the founder and CEO of five tech companies, Josh built his businesses from a blank page into a combined value of over $200 million. As a hyper-growth CEO of over 20 years, he’s used innovative approaches to topple competitors, fight through adversity, and achieve at the highest levels.
In addition to his own startups, Josh has been involved with the launch, growth, or financing of over 100 other companies. He’s helped raise over $150 million of venture capital, and has mentored leaders and entrepreneurs through the struggles of explosive growth. He is the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, investing in tech startups as a platform to help rebuild his beloved hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
As the founder and CEO of ePrize, Josh built the largest digital promotions agency in the world, serving 74 of the top 100 brands. Working with many of the most progressive CMOs in the world, he is a pioneer in digital marketing, winning dozens of awards for groundbreaking innovation at the intersection of technology and advertising.
Josh is an internationally-recognized thought leader and top-rated keynote speaker on innovation, creativity, reinvention, and hyper-growth leadership. His keynotes are focused on not only inspiring audiences, but also sharing actionable strategies to drive meaningful outcomes. Josh is a two-time New York Times Bestselling Author of three books – Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation, and Hacking Innovation: The New Growth Model from the Sinister World of Hackers.
Josh is the Chairman of Platypus Labs, an Innovation Consulting firm that strives to unleash the creativity that may lay dormant in individuals and organizations.
Beginning his career as a professional jazz guitarist, Josh brings the same love for improvisation and creative expression to everything he does. He is a weekly contributor to Inc., Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press. He has twice been named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year and is a President Obama Champion of Change Award recipient.
Josh is on a mission to help people and organizations unleash creativity to maximize full potential. And yes, he still plays a mean jazz guitar.