Seminar

Every business leader wants a highly-motivated team with world-class creative and critical thinking skills, informed risk-taking ability, seamless teamwork and light-speed communications capability…one that has the perfect mix of street savvy and mental agility, and that can react quickly and decisively to any business challenge.

You've heard about the importance of innovation from leaders in nearly every industry. From Steve Jobs at Apple to Thomas Friedman and his bestseller ‘The World is Flat', innovation has become a mantra for organizations around the world. Even the Conference Board of Canada's recent report card on the Canadian economy highlighted ‘Innovation' as our greatest national weakness.

But can innovation actually be taught? Can innovation become a core competency? Ask yourself a simple question; where did you learn to be innovative? If you're like most people, you never took a formal course on innovation. Few of us have learned to do it in any scientific way.

The reality is that innovation is most often the result of serendipity, persistence and lots of luck. But what if there was more? What if innovation could be taught?

Guess what, it can and it has - to more than 15,000,000 kids! Destination ImagiNation has been doing this for more than two decades, and its enterprise arm, DIcor ® has packaged the same world class material for this workshop and delivered it to thousands of enterprise attendees, including GE, FedEx, IBM, Kellogg's, HP, Methanex, Velcro USA and the USAF to name but a few.

Join us for this amazing experience and learn the tools, methods and techniques that will make you and your organization a world class innovator...and all in one day!

Note: Please dress casual as there are team projects and activities.

Instructor

Roger Garriock, Vice President, Destination ImagiNation After graduating with a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, Roger joined IBM Canada in their Toronto office. What followed was a distinguished 32 year career with IBM, including executive assignments in almost every division of the corporation, with 'touch points' covering all of Canada and most of North America in both the public and private sectors. His primary responsibilities were in sales and marketing management, but he also played a key leadership role in the re-invention/down-sizing of IBM during the early 1990's. Since retiring from IBM, Roger has been partnered with Destination ImagiNation®, the world's largest (non-profit) creative problem solving program for kids, where he played a key role in helping launch DIcor®, their new corporate consulting/education division. DIcor is now considered a world leader in ‘Innovation' training workshops around the world. Roger has since worked with a number of major clients, including GE, Velcro USA, Kellogg's, HP, FedEx, IBM, PepsiCo, Eastman Chemical and the United States Air Force to name but a few.

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