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Speaking topics

  • Creative Leadership For Tough Times
  • Innovation - learning from terrorists
  • Bite Size Creativity
  • Intelligent Growth
  • Business Creativity
  • Holistic Innovation
  • Predicting The Future

In addition, any of Derek's papers or blog articles can be taken as subject matter for your event, seminar or workshop.

Booking Derek for your event

Please use the form on the enquiries page. You will normally get a response within 24 hours. You may also like to follow Derek on twitter.

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Creative problem solving guide YES You can! is a the starter guide in a four volume ebook series that takes you from novice to grand master in easy steps. Buy the ebooks.

Our latest addition are two kits which provide you with electronic versions of technique cards that you can use in your workshops. All you need to do is print them off and laminate them. Buy the technique card kits.

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International expert in Innovation, Business Creativity and Creative Leadership

Derek Cheshire, speaker, consultant and creativity expert Derek Cheshire is an international expert in the application of Creativity and Innovation to business and the management of continuous Innovation at local, regional and national levels. He actively encourages and promotes the use of creative techniques in everyday business processes. His ideas are welcomed from Latin America to the Far East. His work encompasses consultancy, idea generation and facilitating continuous innovation as well as facilitating and chairing conference events and on stage interviewing.

If you are contemplating embracing creativity and innovation, want to know more about it, are wondering what its impact may be or are just plain curious about how it might change your organisation then Derek is the speaker for you. Derek spent a number of years working in the Software and Telecommunications industries, asking awkward questions and being told ‘that’s the way we have always done things around here’. Not satisfied with the answers,  he set about ‘changing the way things are done around here’ and freeing others from similar situations.

Derek is also a member of the mastermind group for the Design Interaction course at the Royal College of Art and Design in The Hague.

Derek is an accomplished speaker and has compiled a long list of blog articles including Innovation – How long is a piece of string?, Taking the In out of Innovation and How To Generate 20 New Business Ideas Over Coffee. He has had articles published in such diverse places as the Asia Pacific Tech Monitor (a United Nations online journal), the Hindustan Times and the ICFAI University Press in India. Any of these articles can be a topic for a short presentation or keynote. Visit his blog for more ideas. He recently appeared in the CNBC programme The Business of Innovation along with Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay and Prof Eric Von Hippel of MIT.

What others have said about Derek

"We have had a terrific response from our delegates. You are clearly an expert in your field and surprised everyone with your revelations on the night. We look forward to working with you again" Director, events company

"Thank you for running your Team Awareness workshop for our SEN Section. The feedback we have received has been fantastic. You clearly are an expert in your field and we would not hesitate to recommend this approach to others within the public sector. It really made us think" Local Education Authority

"Thank you for your fascinating presentation to the Swindon ecademy last week. The feedback we have received has been fantastic. Here is some of it……

Special thanks to Derek Cheshire for what was a really interesting talk. He really made me think

It was a good night had by all, I particularly enjoyed the presentation by Derek, Creating the difference – putting the bomb under British Business

I don’t think I have ever seen our members ask so many questions in a Q & A’s session. You obviously got them thinking and made me want to run my business like a well known terrorist organisation. Well done….I think! " Networking events organiser

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