Culture of Entrepreneurial Innovation

In this fireside chat, Bracken Darrell (CEO of Logitech) and Dean DeBiase (Faculty Member Kellogg/Northwestern and Chairman at Revieve) will discuss how to instil a culture of entrepreneurship & Design Thinking in the Large Organizations.

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Innovating New Solutions to Global Challenges

In this on-stage conversation with Alexa Dembek on innovation for sustainability, she will provide insights into her experiences in learning from failure, managing risks, and leveraging technology and science to innovate for sustainability and create customer value.

In this session, Alexa will provide a glimpse of their innovation journey at DuPont and will discuss the role she plays in driving impact and growth including her learnings on leadership, culture, and change management.

“Aligning our science and innovation to the SDGs helps us gauge what the biggest market drivers will be in the years to come and chart a clear path ahead for our businesses. We have curated an innovation culture that drives us to create science-based solutions that create positive societal change and competitive advantages in areas such as clean water, health and safety, 5G, and automotive electrification.” – Alexa Dembek, Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer

Purpose Driven Innovation: Strategizing and Organizing for Growth and Making Balanced Portfolio Decisions

Edwin van Bommel will share insights on ABN AMRO’s purpose-led innovation approach and data-driven portfolio management framework. He will talk about best practices for creating new businesses from the inside, and how the company accelerates innovation by working with external startups, e.g. through accelerators and corporate venture capital, to further drive growth and innovation.

Transforming Organizations for a Disruptive and Digital Era

In this panel corporate leaders will discuss accelerating the transformation journey with leaders as drivers of emergent change, adopting new ways of working, and leveraging new technologies for innovation.

How Amazon’s Leadership Principles Create Fertile Ground for Innovation

At Amazon, innovation doesn’t take place during a moment in time—like a hackathon or an incubator—it takes place as part of everyday work. From the Kindle and Amazon Go, to Alexa and Prime, Amazonians work to create products and services that help make life easier for customers. As an Amazon leader for more than two decades, Paul Misener has lived and breathed Amazon’s culture of innovation and its relentless commitment to four guiding principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. In his tenure, he has witnessed incredible invention, growth, speed, and creativity, while also seeing firsthand how the company took calculated risks and failed. In this presentation, Paul will share context for Amazon’s Leadership Principles and ways in which organizations of any kind can apply these methods to cultivate a culture that continually innovates for its customers.

New Tools for Connecting Strategy to Innovation

With unprecedented levels of uncertainty facing all of us, now and for the foreseeable future, the tools of innovation have moved up front and center into strategy. Dynamically managing a portfolio of resources, disengaging from projects and programs that are no longer relevant and planning for what’s next in a discovery driven manner are newly relevant. Rita McGrath will share some new tools she is developing to do this better and then engage in a dynamic conversation.

Culture of Entrepreneurial Innovation

In this fireside chat, Bracken Darrell (CEO of Logitech) and Dean DeBiase (Faculty Member Kellogg/Northwestern and Chairman at Revieve) will discuss how to instil a culture of entrepreneurship & Design Thinking in the Large Organizations.

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Dancing with Startups – Engaging Gig-economy Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Co-create Innovation

Corporations are living in the age of “Uber yourself before you get Kodaked!” These trendy words are easy to say—but difficult to do—unless you learn how to Disrupt the Disruptive Disruptors.  See how corporations are shifting toward open-innovation platforms that rely on partnering with global ecosystems.  Learn how to plan, navigate and leverage the entrepreneurial-movement, with a program to create impactful innovation partnerships, that can accelerate growth, improve efficiencies, and upgrade the speed and accuracy of your go to market strategy.

New Business Creation: Taking a User-Centric Approach, Seeding Innovation Internally, and Acceleration through Partnering

Jonathan Reeves heads Henkel’s new business unit. He will share how the unit looks to create future core businesses for Henkel Laundry & Homecare via creating new businesses through new consumer targets, dialing up new experiences and innovating in adjacencies. Applying user-centric approaches, and seeding innovation from within the organization. He will also share insights on how the unit is set up, how to address change in a legacy based organisation and how to ensure the right environment is in place to nurture new business creation.

• Setting up the business unit – organizing around capabilities vs legacy
• Taking a user centric approach – identifying target groups, immersing with customers, creating personas, focusing on user pain points, and testing
• Challenges in leveraging lean, agile and scrum in large corporations
• Building the right approach to targeting business creation
• Addressing process driven challenges 

Innovation for Sustainability & Circular Economy

The panel discusses challenges and best practices in implementing strategic initiatives for circularity and sustainability and how to involve employees, customers and different players across the value chain into those.

Innovating for Circularity: Different Approaches & Lessons Learned

Ann Peddle Meitz will share 3M’s approach to innovating for circularity. She will explain how the organization leverages circular design, choice of materials, and business models to develop circular solutions – and will illustrate these with examples. Ann will also discuss key learnings on creating value and tangible environmental impact with circular products.

• Taking different approaches to designing for circularity: from using renewable materials through designing for repair to exploring diverse business models – with examples
• Using top-down engagement to accelerate sustainability efforts
• Starting with market segments that highly value sustainability/circularity
• Ensuring R&D is focused on solving customer problems in a sustainable manner
• Targeting higher-volume products to create tangible environmental impact

AI, VR, Blockchain and Data: Why They Are Taking Off Now and What Are the Blockers and Enablers

John Abel will talk about emerging technologies with an eye to the critical enablers that have allowed them to scale, but which also open opportunities for innovation. He will kick-start his presentation with a brief look at the historical development of AI and VR to underline the importance of enablers in the take-off of these technologies. He will then explain the role of data in this context and will delve into the headwinds of innovation including culture and politics. He will also illustrate the points with a customer co-creation case study.

• From invention of AI and VR in the 1950s to now – changes in the circumstances that allowed these technologies to take off
• Why blockchain and AI have emerged and how hyperscale can give the solutions
• Making the most of emerging technologies, such as AI and blockchain
• Data as a critical enabler – and different types of available data (1. publicly available, 2. Existing corporate data, and 3. generated data)
• Dealing with the headwinds to innovation including culture, politics, training – and a look into Google’s culture
• Illustrating with a customer co-innovation case study

Learning & Innovating Together: Tending a Culture of Inquiry, Empathy and Shared Journeys

Today’s knowledge workers are constantly taking in new information, grappling with new challenges and seeing new opportunities. This coupled with the accelerating pace of change and the complexity of work in the digital age can feel draining and overwhelming. In this conversation between Kathy Doiron (Catalyst Labs Director at Starbucks) and Karina R. Jensen (Practice Director, Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations at NEOMA Business School) we’ll hear about how Catalyst Labs strategically integrates learning, with hacking, with community to accelerate business transformations such as Modern Engineering and enterprise agility.

Catalyst Labs is a small but mighty team of change makers within Starbucks IT whose focus is on the intersections of learning and innovation. They bring learning journeys and bootcamps, hackathons and innovation expos to Starbucks Technology and business teams. Their work is grounded in the conviction that when learning experiences are tended to and curated with intention and care, we can refresh and renew organizational potential by unleashing confidence, curiosity and attention.  In turn, confident, curious and attentive individuals and teams see and create new possibilities.

Transforming Organizations for a Disruptive and Digital Era

In this panel corporate leaders will discuss accelerating the transformation journey with leaders as drivers of emergent change, adopting new ways of working, and leveraging new technologies for innovation.

Move Fast. Be Open. Love Your Customer.

How to drive innovation while becoming a customer centric company?

A journey into the transformation companies like Deutsche Telekom are doing to become even more customer centric, learning about igniting more purpose, and motivating teams for a better impact.

Innovation for Sustainability & Circular Economy

The panel discusses challenges and best practices in implementing strategic initiatives for circularity and sustainability and how to involve employees, customers and different players across the value chain into those.

Bringing Rigor to Running Internal Startups: Leveraging Past Experiences from a Portfolio of External Startups

Pieter Wolters will share DSM’s venturing approach. He will detail how the organization builds startups from internal innovation projects, and why it takes a rigorous approach to ensuring startup autonomy.

• Setting up internal startups (i.e. majority DSM-owned) by leveraging experiences from the past 20 years in managing minority investments in a portfolio of external startups. “Ventures” include Hologram Sciences Inc. (as well as DSM PPE Plus BV)
• Forming separate units from internal innovation projects at arms-length from the mothership. Example: Hologram sciences startup – taking a rigorous approach and running the startup like a proper startup with external management, a-b-c rounds, and investments. Lesson learned in amplifying the rigor of managing a startup
• DSM’s business building approach – venturing, startup collaboration, and joint venturing with other corporations

Innovation for Sustainability & Circular Economy

The panel discusses challenges and best practices in implementing strategic initiatives for circularity and sustainability and how to involve employees, customers and different players across the value chain into those.

Collaborating with Startups at Different Stages – What We’ve Learned through Our Multiyear Greenhouse Program

As part of PepsiCo’s Winning with Purpose vision, they are committed to open innovation and collaborating with the change-makers of the future to help lead the transformation of the food and beverage industry. This is why for years PepsiCo has fostered relationships with startup brands through programs like the PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator.

Join us as Tammy Butterworth shares more information on the 6 month accelerator program with external startups where the focus is a collaborative growth experience, with a two way learning mechanism built in.

The Greenhouse Accelerator ties back to three critical ideas: embracing the entrepreneurial mindset, seeding future growth, and mutual mentorship, with a commitment to diversity underpinning our efforts. We believe the future of food and beverage is built on collaboration, and in this talk Tammy will discuss the vision of marrying the innovation and agility of small companies with the scale and know-how of big companies.

Making Startup Collaboration Work

In this panel, Sudeendra Koushik (Volvo CampX Bangalore), Kara Bortone (Johnson & Johnson), Peter Löfgren (ABB SynerLeap) and Tammy Butterworth (PepsiCo) will discuss the challenges and learnings in collaboration between large corporation and startups.

Leading in Intelligent Organizations, through the Pandemic and Beyond

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Transforming Organizations for a Disruptive and Digital Era

In this panel corporate leaders will discuss accelerating the transformation journey with leaders as drivers of emergent change, adopting new ways of working, and leveraging new technologies for innovation.

Digital Transformation and the Future of Work: Scaling Technologies, Becoming More Agile, and Upskilling & Reskilling People

For the past 15 years, Hao Dinh has led digital transformation at GE and Electrolux. He will explain how digital transformation has reached the stage where it requires changing the DNA of the organization, scaling technology, working agile, and upskilling and reskilling people. Hao will share insights and real world examples on:

• Moving to the next stage of digital transformation – scaling new technologies and changing the organization’s DNA
• Becoming more agile by leveraging existing skills & technologies to enable faster scaling and deployment of digital technologies
• Changing the meaning of jobs, and upskilling and reskilling people to ensure everyone benefits from the transformation

Transforming Organizations for a Disruptive and Digital Era

In this panel corporate leaders will discuss accelerating the transformation journey with leaders as drivers of emergent change, adopting new ways of working, and leveraging new technologies for innovation.

Accelerating Value Creation through Startup Collaboration: Bringing Synergies Together and Building a Startup Ecosystem

Peter Löfgren heads ABB’s innovation growth hub SynerLeap. Up to now, SynerLeap has onboarded startups from 19 countries on five continents and initiated more than 135 collaborations, at a pace of one new collaboration every week. SynerLeap is building a value network and leverages an industrial startup ecosystem – expanding the program globally and bringing in partners. Peter will share how the hub collaborates with high-tech startups, and builds a startup ecosystem, focusing in particular on:

• Bringing the strengths of the corporate and startup worlds together to shorten innovation cycles, increase speed to market, and create industry-focused solutions
• ABB SynerLeap’s approach to startup collaboration
  o Connect: Help the startups navigate and matchmake with ABB, partners and customers
  o Accelerate: Help the startups accelerate through real pilots with ABB, partners and customers
  o Scale: Facilitate scaling through potential partnerships and equity investments
• Accelerating through a virtual (and physical) environment enabling cross-pollination of ideas, cultures and network effect, where exploring and exploiting together, rather than discussing, is the guiding star

Making Startup Collaboration Work

In this panel, Sudeendra Koushik (Volvo CampX Bangalore), Kara Bortone (Johnson & Johnson), Peter Löfgren (ABB SynerLeap) and Tammy Butterworth (PepsiCo) will discuss the challenges and learnings in collaboration between large corporation and startups.

Making Startup Collaboration Work

In this panel, Sudeendra Koushik (Volvo CampX Bangalore), Kara Bortone (Johnson & Johnson), Peter Löfgren (ABB SynerLeap) and Tammy Butterworth (PepsiCo) will discuss the challenges and learnings in collaboration between large corporation and startups.

Make Sustainable Irresistible® – Delivering at Scale & Building Alliances

Frantz Beznik heads Sustainable Innovation at P&G. He will talk about how to innovate for sustainability in a large firm and make sustainability work at scale. Frantz’ motto is to “Make Sustainable Irresistible®” to the 5 billion consumers P&G serves around the world. He will briefly share his model approach and will outline how P&G builds alliances to create systems change and innovate at scale. He will bring this to life through his 50L home project, sharing his key interim progress & leanings – to date – in creating customer-facing sustainable solutions and building an ecosystem.

• Sustainability at P&G – how to innovate for sustainability in a large firm
  • Taking a customer-centered and business model focused approach
  • Making sustainability work at scale and designing for irresistibility
• Building alliances and creating an innovation stream – lessons learned on making a coalition work
• 50l home project – combining security and sustainability, building consumer-facing solutions and key learnings from the project

Changing Work from the Inside Out

The talk will focus on why it’s time to mainstream mindfulness and operationalize compassion. Mr. Shute will share the innovative programs that LinkedIn, and firms like them, are implementing to help employees maintain their mental well-being.

• Why compassion is a strategic advantage for companies, teams, and individuals
• How mindfulness (mental exercise) is on a journey to the mainstream like physical exercise has been for the past fifty years
• What organizations and individuals can do to bring these practices to life

People and Culture for Innovation

Sudeendra Koushik will talk about how to drive innovation by directing attention from processes to people and culture. He will share how organizations can enable people to innovate by providing them with the necessary skills and creating incentives to foster desired behaviors.

• Shifting focus from processes and placing people at the center to drive innovation – how organizations can drive innovation, enable anyone within it to innovate, and give people the skills needed
• Driving a culture of innovation with top down initiative and bottom up execution – determining the desired outcomes, creating incentives to foster relevant behaviors, and walking the talk

Making Startup Collaboration Work

In this panel, Sudeendra Koushik (Volvo CampX Bangalore), Kara Bortone (Johnson & Johnson), Peter Löfgren (ABB SynerLeap) and Tammy Butterworth (PepsiCo) will discuss the challenges and learnings in collaboration between large corporation and startups.

Driving Sustainable Business Impact through Design Thinking

Design Thinking as a framework for innovation has been around a long time. It has its champions, and it has detractors as well. But how do you pull forward the good stuff and make a meaningful impact on your business and for your customers? At GE Healthcare they established a design thinking practice initially as an experiment and have built a sustainable model for nearly 14 years. Mark will share insights into what they have learned over the years, what works, what doesn’t and how to make business leaders fans of design thinking where they keep coming back for more.

The Resilient Innovator in Turbulent Times

If COVID has taught us anything over the past 18 months, it’s that we are frequently wrong, especially in times of great uncertainty and fast-moving developments. During these unprecedented times, some organizations have innovated and thrived, while others have stumbled and fallen.  Many sectors have been fundamentally reshaped. What separates the winners from the losers, especially when it comes to innovation?

In this fast-paced and provocative conversation, Mark Coopersmith and John Danner – long-time faculty at UC Berkeley in innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership – will address key issues that leaders of innovation need to consider in times like this, including…

• accelerate the types of business experiments you run
• leverage the failures that do happen to gain new insights, as outlined in their groundbreaking book “The Other “F” Word: How Great Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work”
• how Silicon Valley and has responded, and thoughts on the next wave of startups coming out of this crisis
• focus on the fast-evolving needs of your customers and stakeholders
• the role of serendipity and timing, and how you can “make your own luck”
• specific examples of winners and losers, and why

Mark Coopersmith and John Danner are Co-authors of “The Other “F” Word: How Great Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work”.

Tools to Drive Innovation & Growth via a More Productive Relationship with Failure

Mark Coopersmith and John Danner are co-authors of the best-selling book The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work  (Wiley, 2015). They also advise organizations around the world on driving innovation, organizational change, and growth.  Building on themes they introduce in their “keynote conversation” immediately preceding this Lab, Mark and John will lead an interactive session where attendees gain a better understanding of their personal “failure-savviness” as leaders, and also gain experience with a few of the activities, tools, and exercises from their book “The Other ‘F’ Word.”  Mark and John will also share a number of best practices they identified in companies while undertaking research for the book.

During this Lab, participants will…

• Identify specific examples of how to approach setbacks or failures more productively, to gain strategic insights and accelerate change,
• Assess individual and organizational performance across the seven stages of the Failure-Value-Cycle,
• Investigate how to reframe innovation initiatives in more productive ways, leveraging insights from nonbusiness disciplines such as science and engineering,
• Participate in an exercise or two that they can share within your broader organization

The Resilient Innovator in Turbulent Times

If COVID has taught us anything over the past 18 months, it’s that we are frequently wrong, especially in times of great uncertainty and fast-moving developments. During these unprecedented times, some organizations have innovated and thrived, while others have stumbled and fallen.  Many sectors have been fundamentally reshaped. What separates the winners from the losers, especially when it comes to innovation?

In this fast-paced and provocative conversation, Mark Coopersmith and John Danner – long-time faculty at UC Berkeley in innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership – will address key issues that leaders of innovation need to consider in times like this, including…

• accelerate the types of business experiments you run
• leverage the failures that do happen to gain new insights, as outlined in their groundbreaking book “The Other “F” Word: How Great Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work”
• how Silicon Valley and has responded, and thoughts on the next wave of startups coming out of this crisis
• focus on the fast-evolving needs of your customers and stakeholders
• the role of serendipity and timing, and how you can “make your own luck”
• specific examples of winners and losers, and why

Mark Coopersmith and John Danner are Co-authors of “The Other “F” Word: How Great Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work”.

Tools to Drive Innovation & Growth via a More Productive Relationship with Failure

Mark Coopersmith and John Danner are co-authors of the best-selling book The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work  (Wiley, 2015). They also advise organizations around the world on driving innovation, organizational change, and growth.  Building on themes they introduce in their “keynote conversation” immediately preceding this Lab, Mark and John will lead an interactive session where attendees gain a better understanding of their personal “failure-savviness” as leaders, and also gain experience with a few of the activities, tools, and exercises from their book “The Other ‘F’ Word.”  Mark and John will also share a number of best practices they identified in companies while undertaking research for the book.

During this Lab, participants will…

• Identify specific examples of how to approach setbacks or failures more productively, to gain strategic insights and accelerate change,
• Assess individual and organizational performance across the seven stages of the Failure-Value-Cycle,
• Investigate how to reframe innovation initiatives in more productive ways, leveraging insights from nonbusiness disciplines such as science and engineering,
• Participate in an exercise or two that they can share within your broader organization

Learning by Doing: Visual Thinking and Illustrations in a Business Context

Being visual is one of the fundamentals for a good brainstorming session. Still most people feel more comfortable with sharing their thoughts using words. Visual is a language that everyone knows, but haven’t had a chance to practice. This session is an introduction to how and why to bring it closer to your daily work.

Scaling and Transitioning New Businesses

Common wisdom is that breakthrough opportunities are difficult to find.  But practical experience tells us that more often, getting those ideas is much less of a challenge for the large mature company than scaling the new business that is based on a breakthrough,  and assimilating it into the mainstream organization.  In this session we’ll examine commonly experienced challenges and offer insights from research into how companies can build a capability to ‘Accelerate’ strategic innovations so that they substantially contribute to the mature organization’s growth and renewal.

Innovation for Sustainability & Circular Economy

The panel discusses challenges and best practices in implementing strategic initiatives for circularity and sustainability and how to involve employees, customers and different players across the value chain into those.

Make Your Culture More Agile with Future-Fit Manifesto

Alice de Casanove and Jean-Yves Reynaud will lead an exercise on making culture more agile. They will start the exercise off with a short presentation on the Future-Fit Manifesto followed by two consecutive situation-based group discussion sessions. The session will focus on the following:

• Learn about the principles, context, and intention behind the future-fit manifesto
• Discuss in groups two common situations that can arise within organizations
• Understand how a company’s response to those situations serves to characterize its corporate culture
• Learn the relevant future-fit principles related to each situation and examine how those principles can be implemented within your organization

Peeling the Onion of AI Ethics: Machine Learning’s Difficult Trade-Offs

Every application of AI has moral implications that we have to consider as businesspeople, customers, and citizens. But AI — especially the sort known as machine learning — “thinks” about things very differently than we humans do. This is leading us to puzzle through moral questions in new and helpful ways.

In this session we will:

• Understand what about machine learning makes it morally problematic
• Learn how it is altering our ideas about fairness
• Consider in depth, and through multiple iterations, how we can usefully think through the moral implications of seemingly simple decisions about the training and deployment of machine learning applications.
  

Learning & Innovating Together: Tending a Culture of Inquiry, Empathy and Shared Journeys

Today’s knowledge workers are constantly taking in new information, grappling with new challenges and seeing new opportunities. This coupled with the accelerating pace of change and the complexity of work in the digital age can feel draining and overwhelming. In this conversation between Kathy Doiron (Catalyst Labs Director at Starbucks) and Karina R. Jensen (Practice Director, Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations at NEOMA Business School) we’ll hear about how Catalyst Labs strategically integrates learning, with hacking, with community to accelerate business transformations such as Modern Engineering and enterprise agility.

Catalyst Labs is a small but mighty team of change makers within Starbucks IT whose focus is on the intersections of learning and innovation. They bring learning journeys and bootcamps, hackathons and innovation expos to Starbucks Technology and business teams. Their work is grounded in the conviction that when learning experiences are tended to and curated with intention and care, we can refresh and renew organizational potential by unleashing confidence, curiosity and attention.  In turn, confident, curious and attentive individuals and teams see and create new possibilities.

Thinking Inside the Box Across the Entire Organization

What would happen if a company funded every single new product idea from any employee, no questions asked? As an experiment, Adobe did exactly that. Mark Randall will share the surprising discoveries Adobe made in creating Kickbox, the new innovation process that’s already becoming an industry model for igniting a culture of innovation. Each employee receives a mysterious red box packed with imagination, money and a strange game with six levels. Hear from Mark how aligning passion with purpose and nurturing collaboration across the entire organization changes everything and how trust can transform good people into great innovators. Learn what makes Kickbox so effective, why Adobe has freely open sourced the entire process now separated in its own non-profit foundation and how organizations around the world from Cisco to MasterCard to Swisscom are deploying it.

Solving Remote Innovation Challenges with the Kickbox Open Source Innovator’s Toolkit

In this interactive workshop you’ll adapt the open source Kickbox innovator’s toolkit to fit your organization’s needs and objectives. Guided by the creator of Kickbox, participants will emerge with a digital Kickbox suitable for pilot deployment.

Make Your Culture More Agile with Future-Fit Manifesto

Alice de Casanove and Jean-Yves Reynaud will lead an exercise on making culture more agile. They will start the exercise off with a short presentation on the Future-Fit Manifesto followed by two consecutive situation-based group discussion sessions. The session will focus on the following:

• Learn about the principles, context, and intention behind the future-fit manifesto
• Discuss in groups two common situations that can arise within organizations
• Understand how a company’s response to those situations serves to characterize its corporate culture
• Learn the relevant future-fit principles related to each situation and examine how those principles can be implemented within your organization

The MIT Innovation Ecosystem

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Heartfulness: Enhancing Creativity through Meditation

Meditation is a mainstream activity in business and can help employees relax, improve focus & productivity and reduce stress levels. Medical research has shown health improvements among individuals who meditate ranging from improved cardiovascular health, reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety and increased coping and problem-solving skills. Meditation can also be a key tool to inspire creativity, to problem solve and to support collaboration amongst team members. As a 15+ year instructor of Heartfulness Meditation and a Marketing Director for a large healthcare company, Chris Mills will present an experiential workshop based on Heartfulness Meditation. In this workshop he will:

• Provide insights on how meditation fosters personal & team-based creativity and helps develop problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate a simple and practical relaxation technique that participants can easily incorporate into their own lives
• Lead an experiential meditation session that can take participants into a deeper state of being, a state ripe for the development and manifestation of creative thought.