UNLEASH THE HUMAN SIDE OF INNOVATION.
Innovation is everyone's job. It starts when you 'turn on' your people's creativity.
We are the trusted experts leaders turn to for building innovation-driven, adaptable teams.
We help organizations foster collaboration and rapid problem-solving, enabling teams to overcome obstacles, disrupt groupthink, and unlock their full potential in an increasingly complex and demanding business landscape.
5 Specific Times Senior Leaders and L&D Call Us
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Rapid market change and complexity require a full roster of future-ready leaders, and a leader doesn’t know how to develop this talent or if they even have it.
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A new leader is leading the next mission-critical initiative and urgently needs their team to fire on all cylinders to be successful.
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Creativeand entrepreneurial thinking are stifled, resulting in little to no risk-taking, and innovation has slowed to a snail's pace. A turnaround is needed urgently to address the slow decline in business results.
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Siloed information and communication are hindering collaboration, creativity and speed of execution, resulting in market share erosion. A Department Lead is looking for a team transformation.
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The C-Suite has issued an innovation mandate with a customer centric approach and the L&D and Culture team doesn’t know where to start
OUR CLIENTS SPAN THE GLOBE
OUR PROGRAMS INCORPORATE 4 CORE ELEMENTS TO ENSURE TRANSFORMATION, TRACTION, AND RESULTS
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MINDSET
Build awareness and aptitude regarding established attitudes and beliefs rooted in experience, education and culture and the impact on leadership behavior.
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SKILLSET
Experimental and applied learning to develop leadership skills to be ready to tackle the multiple complex challenges that are ever-present in today’s fast changing business environment.
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TOOLSET
A multiple set of creativity, agile and change tools to promote new ways of working and pursuing innovation.
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REAL WORK
Action learning and business impact projects are built from business challenges, opportunities and problems to ensure the learning is applied and produces results for the business.
Companies around the world know how important creativity is.
More than 1500 global CEOs told IBM, “More than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision—successfully navigating an increasingly complex world will require creativity.” IBM
A survey of top executives from Fortune 500 companies ranked creativity more important than intelligence for success in business today. Forbes Magazine
Creativity matters to your bottom line.
A lot.
Creative leaders outperform their peers on revenue growth, total return to shareholders, and enterprise value. McKinsey & Co.
82% of executives believe that companies that actively nurture creativity achieve a commanding market leadership position with higher market share and revenue growth than their competition. Forrester Consulting
Innovation is the engine of business growth, and it starts with creativity. Companies that nurture creativity attract and retain top talent, seize greater market share and achieve above-average revenue growth. PWC
Yet, a study from Price Waterhouse Coopers found 77% of CEOs struggle to find the creativity and innovation skills they need.
Unlock your organization’s creative capability and use it strategically to fuel innovation.
“Ignition Creativity has designed and delivered a diverse range of successful and effective programs and workshops over the last five years. In each case, they have been highly collaborative, professional, innovative, and strategic with their work. Whether leading a design thinking program for my team or designing and delivering a program for our clients, the output always exceeded my expectations. Together, we achieved our desired results. They are a terrific partner, and I don’t hesitate to recommend them."
Julie Barker-Merz, BMO Bank of Montreal, Regional President
“Ignition Creativity developed a comprehensive training program on design thinking for one of our major leadership conferences that showcased the benefits and developed our capabilities in design thinking. The teams were fully engaged and collaborated to develop many new ideas in real time. The result was the creation of exciting concepts that we took back to the business for testing and development with clients. We have since implemented design thinking into other activities and areas.”
— Adrian Lang, Head of Business Management | Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking and Channels | BMO Financial Group
“Ignition Creativity’s approach melds a deeply human awareness with leading edge design thinking. Their ability to hold and guide a room is facilitation in its truest sense: making it easy and exciting for great ideas and insights to come to light and become actionable.”
— Madeleine Shaw and Suzanne Siemens, Co-Founders, Aisle and United Girls of the World Society