Nigel Collin

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Innovation / Creativity, Change, Workshop Facilitators,

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Nigel is a champion of Creativity. Which means he works with business leaders, helping them find a competitive advantage by leveraging the creativity of their people to fuel innovation.

With over 15 years leading creative teams and working with creative people, Nigel realized the challenge with creativity and innovation is knowing how to lead creative people and innovative thinkers, harness their genius, and direct it towards viable outcomes.

Having grown up in the events industry, he has worked on a multitude of corporate and public events including the 2000 Sydney Olympics and was Show Director for Australia’s largest-ever corporate event.

He is one of those rare people whose passion for creativity and in-depth knowledge will engage and inspire you and your people – making a real difference to your business.

A dynamic, interactive, practical speaker and facilitator, Nigel’s genuine knowledge and experience set him apart. He is one of those rare people whose passion for creativity and in-depth knowledge will engage and inspire your people – and make a real difference to your business.

For 9 years Nigel owned and ran Absurd Entertainment, an entertainment design company, before passing on the baton in 2004. He worked on a multitude of corporate and public events including the 2000 Sydney Olympics and Paralympics and The Sydney Royal Easter Show 1997-2003. He was Show Director for Australia’s largest-ever corporate event, in Sydney in 2005.

Many companies across a myriad of industries including IT, Entertainment, Design, Events, Marketing, Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Government and Telecommunications have benefited from Nigel’s experience and expertise.

He has studied organizational creativity at the Walt Disney Company, USA, and sat on the roundtable for the Queensland Government’s ‘Year of Creativity’. Recently, Nigel developed the Creative Catalyst program, to assess how well a business utilizes the creative talents of its people and what to do to improve it.

Nigel is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), the highest designation offered by the National Speakers’ Association of Australia. His work has taken him throughout Australia and around the globe.

His second book, Herding Monkeys: How to lead your creative people and turn their ideas into commercial results, has recently been released.

Nigel’s quest is to change the creative landscape of the Australia.

Topics

‘Leading Creativity’ - How to fuel the innovation pipeline by leveraging the creativity of your people and get results.

The challenge with creativity, for businesses, isn’t finding creative people or teaching people how to be more creative. The real challenge for creative businesses is knowing how to lead your creative people and innovative thinkers, how to harness and direct their talents for real business impact, so your drive innovation and results.

Discover the three organizational keys  of Leadership, Culture, and Process.
Understand why creative people think, feel, and do differently and how to reap the benefits.
Learn the different set of leadership skills you need to lead creative people and turn their ideas into business results.

‘Funnel Thinking’ – How to help your people come up with great ideas that are not only practical but commercially viable as well.

How do you generate workable ideas and solutions and keep coming up with them. In this practical session you will learn to apply our unique model to help generate and capture ideas and then funnel them down into workable solutions and outcomes. You will also learn and use a variety of relevant thinking tools.

Discover the right process to turn creativity into business impact.

Understand how to turn the creative controls on and off, so you hit the jackpot every time.

Learn how to explore possibilities and then funnel them into successful solutions.

Some Comments

‘I imagine you’re quite accustomed to your session being a popular favourite amongst conference or workshop participants, but in addition to it being popular it was also extremely valuable for our daily leadership work’ -Anna Eves; Mater Health Service

‘What can I say – both of your sessions were ABSOLUTE HITS at our Sales Conference! In fact, in the five years that I’ve been running our Sales Conference, your feedback and scores have been the highest we have EVER SEEN!!’
- Ralph Parkhurst; Macquarie Telecom

‘Not just entertaining but useful, great ideas you can use immediately.’
-Kevin White; CSEP, Empire Force Events Inc. New York USA

‘His keynote address was excellent and showed a good depth of knowledge of the topic. It was clear that it was well researched and professionally presented compared to other speakers.
-Graham Horton; RMIA

Travels from: Sydney

Fees:
plus gst and travel expenses where required

Keynote: $5000

Workshop: $5000

Full Day: $7500

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