Brain-Based Innovation Training and Coaching

An Innovation Mindset

Real innovation is not just a process. It is a mindset which adapts to change with curiosity, openness, flexibility and a drive to find new solutions at all levels. The ability to see the world differently.

The Brain Innovation Project’s unique training and coaching turns this aspiration into reality, equipping participants with simple, practical and powerful brain-based tools and techniques to embrace innovation as a way of life.

Our ‘brain-hacks’ are grounded in cutting-edge modern understanding of how our astonishing, natural, biological brains – often referred to as the most complex object in the known universe – actually work.

It does not matter whether you are seeking to lead an organisational change process, develop a poverty reduction programme, research stem cells or improve staff well-being. We use the same brains whatever we do, which means that our approach is entirely transferable across sectors, themes and topics. 

Practical. Powerful. Enjoyable. Surprising.

What Others Say

Our training and coaching seek to equip participants with powerful tools and techniques to help them navigate the profound and rapid changes that are taking place in our world. They combine cutting-edge theory with practical application.

From leadership teams to diverse organisations across the globe, 100% of respondents to feedback requests would recommend participation in our workshops to others.

The words we most often hear in feedback are 'surprising' and 'practical'. Here are some other things they have to say:

Embrace Change And Uncertainty

A Brain For Innovation

Our natural, biological, embodied brains are responsible for everything we think, feel, perceive, say, plan, create, do, imagine, invent or believe.

Individually and collectively, for organisations and societies, they are the drivers of either stagnation or transformation at every level.

How we use them will determine whether we develop the agility, cognitive flexibility and imagination to engage with our rapidly changing world or simply get left behind as the march into the future passes us by.

Modern neuroscience shows that we don’t experience the world as it truly is. Rather, our embodied brains are extraordinarily complex ‘prediction machines’, constantly generating and testing hypotheses about the world around us based on powerful internal models. These models drive ALL of our perception, cognition and action at all levels, whether individually or in teams.

Left unexamined and unchallenged, our models act as self-fulfilling prophecies, as our brains actively seek to bring about and confirm the very predictions and expectations they produce. But it is precisely in the space – and only in the space – between our existing models and the world itself that the opportunity for change lies. In other words, to explore what we don’t (yet) already know, rather than rely on what we do know. 

For individuals, teams, organisations and societies, this has profound and far-reaching consequences for how we perceive, make sense of, react to and manage change at all levels.

By understanding and ‘hacking into’ our brains’ core operating principles, we can begin to see the world differently and develop the type of innovation mindset to lean-into and embrace uncertainty.

This enables us to generate the novel connections, solutions and self-directed change which are at the heart of personal, professional, organisational, technological and societal creativity and innovation.

Brain-Hacks to Change The Way You Think

Simple Tools and Techniques

While our brains are astonishingly complex, our tools and techniques are simple and practical.

They enable you to combine your existing professional expertise with the ability to move beyond current perceptions, mental models and paradigms and access new ways of thinking and acting.

It’s not that one mode of thinking is inherently better than another. Rather, it is about having the agility to be able to switch between different approaches according to the task at hand.

After all, if you only have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. In a rapidly changing world, the versatility of a Swiss army knife is more useful.

No ‘gadgets, substances, super-natural powers or magical thinking’ are required; just a curiosity to explore how your extraordinary natural, biological brain works and the new possibilities this opens up.

Innovation Workshops and Coaching

CORE FOCUS AREAS

We offer in-house innovation training and coaching for individuals, progressive companies, civil society organizations, international organisations and the public sector.

Workshops can be in-person or online and last from a few hours to a few days, depending on how much depth you wish to go into.

We do not introduce a costly new and time-intensive innovation process or framework into your organisation. Our focus is on helping people develop the type of innovation mindset which supports and underpins your existing approaches and practices. That is, to make innovation a way of thinking and acting, rather than just a process to be managed.

While most of our work falls under a few broad categories (see below), our approach is entirely flexible and modular. Thus, our tools and techniques can be adapted to suit any topic, theme or sector. Afterall, personally and professionally, we use the same brain whatever we are doing.