Dr. David Ricketts | Harvard Innovation Fellow Leading the New Generation of Innovators

Dr. David Ricketts

Harvard Innovation Fellow Leading the New Generation of Innovators

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Dr. David Ricketts
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The Innovation Mindset
How Your Approach Will Accelerate Your Innovation

What separates innovators from the non-innovators? While skills, smarts and luck play a role in your success, how you approach problems can separate you from someone who is a doer to someone who is an innovator. Drawing on rich examples from leading innovators of today and yesterday, this keynote will give you a look inside the mindset of innovators in order to allow you to accelerate your innovation process and become more innovative.

In this keynote you will learn:

How continual innovation is required to achieve and maintain leadership in your business and career
How understanding and prioritizing value in the problems you work on can make the difference between being a do-er and an innovator
How finding problems that match your competitive advantages and personal strengths will lead to more innovative products and services
How finding the right problem makes all the difference in the world
How the representation of problems can be the difference between accelerated solutions and barriers to your success.

As an experienced speaker, executive, scientist and researcher, Dr. Ricketts shares his research on innovators and the keys to their success in a easy to understand, inspiring way. His content draws upon scientific and business principles, but relates them to the goals of your organization. He works with your organization prior to the keynote to understand and customize learning points to enhance the business and organization goals of your company.

This keynote is available in a 45 min and 60 min format, as well as a 90 min keynote with extended content about leadership or creativity.

Creativity in Innovation
How to Discover and Solve High-Value Problems

How does your organization create? Do you rely on a few individuals who are naturally creative or is creating new ideas and value for your customers a cornerstone of your competitive advantage? Creativity is often spoken about as necessary component of innovation - but how do we create? What are the effective ways that you instill creativity in your organization and how can you help your employees be more creative? Drawing on research in psychology, business and the arts, this keynote presents the key components to the creative process and how they can be incorporated into your organizations every day practice.

In this keynote you will learn:

The role of creativity in innovation
The three tenets of creativity
How to create environments and management that foster creativity
How to use creativity to solve complex problems and develop new products
How to build creativity into your organization's every day processes

As an experienced speaker, executive, scientist and researcher, Dr. Ricketts shares his research on innovators and the keys to their success in an easy to understand, inspiring way. His content draws upon scientific and business principles as well as artistic creativity, but relates them to the goals of your organization. Dr. Ricketts is an avid jazz musician and sculpture and has worked extensively with the creative arts. He works with your organization prior to the keynote to understand and customize learning points to enhance the business and organization outcomes for your company.
This keynote is available in a 45 min and 60 min format, as well as a 90 min keynote with extended content about leading creativity.

Re-Imagine Innovation
Build a Culture of Innovation in Your Organization

The key to re-imagining innovation in your organization is to spark innovative thinking within your people. Drawing upon almost 20 years of leading teams to develop new products as well as teaching the next generation of great innovators at Harvard, Dr. David Ricketts shares the key principles to re-imagining innovation.

His three part innovation process empowers teams to create a culture of systemic innovation that becomes foundational to your culture. Dr. Ricketts’ presentation will inspire you to re-imagine your culture of innovation by showing you how to 1) connect innovation to your teams’ everyday jobs; 2) add the principles of innovation to their expertise; and 3) create a process to turn new ideas into executable solutions.

Key Takeaways
A specific process for innovation throughout your organization.
Empowered team members bringing new ideas and actions steps from within the organization.
An inspired workforce who know that innovation is an important part of their mindset as well as their job description.
An overall understanding of innovation approaches that leads to the execution and transformation of a formidable culture of innovation for the future.

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