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2025 BEST Innovation Experts & Creativity Speakers

January 9, 2025 David Staughton CSP CEO B.Sc(Hons)

Who are the Best Innovation Experts & Creativity Speakers ? – TOP Innovation Resources for your Event or Conference

Innovation and creativity are critical skills for the future. Innovation experts can help you become more innovative and solve more problems. The ability to develop solutions for a fast transforming and ever-changing world is a must-know skill for every individual, business and organisation.

Australia has been very innovative with early inventions like the Hills rotary hoist, the Victa mower and the Eagle Boys double-decker pizza box just to name a few. All of these are on display at IP Australia in Canberra.

This page is dedicated to the top creatives and leading innovators in Australia.

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So who are the Best Innovation Experts in Australia?

TOP AUSTRALIAN INNOVATION EXPERTS & CREATIVITY SPEAKERS

ACT INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPERTS

  • Dr Alan Finkel AO    ACT  Australia’s Chief Scientist – An entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist and educator

NSW INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPERTS

  • Adam Ferrier  –  Thinkerbell   Creative Thinker & speaker
  • Ashton Bishop   – Hellostepchange     Brilliant Creative Strategy
  • David Chiem – Mind Champs  Entrepreneur, Thought Leader, & CEO
  • Dr Bruce McCabe – S2 Intelligence Pty Ltd    Futurist, writer and international keynote speaker
  • Justin Baird – Head Of Technology, Asia Pacific at Imagination
  • Nigel Collin  – Nigel Collin   Maestro of ‘The Game of Inches’, Founder, Ingenious Oz Project
  • Nils Vesk  – Ideas With Legs – Innovation Keynote speaker, Future trends Keynote speaker, Innovation consultant
  • Rebecca Lazenby  – Paragrafix   Executive Visioning Strategist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

QUEENSLAND INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPERTS

  • Andrew Campbell  – neuaudio – Speaker, teacher, manager, philanthropist and innovator

VICTORIAN INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPERTS

  • Dr Amantha Imber  – inventium  Founder, , Innovation + Productivity Speaker, AFR 100 Women of Influence, Host, How I Work podcast
  • Andrew Horsfield – Power your performance, Amplify your impact, Get the job done
  • Charlotte Rush  – inventium    Innovation, Creative thinking, Facilitation, Idea generation, Change, Growth, Productivity, Focus, and Adapt
  • Cyan Ta Eed  – Founder of Milkshake.app, Hey Tiger, Envato & New Day Box
  • Gus Balbontin – Roshambo  – Creativity and Innovation Speaker ex Lonely Planet
  • Jason Clarke – Mindworker    Celebrated author, adventurer, gold medal Olympian and popular TV chef
  • Jason Fox  – Bestselling author, leadership advisor & rogue wizard/philosopher. Pioneering Leadership & Motivation Design
  • Jess Amy Gee – Think in Colour, Graphic Recorder, President at Graphic Recorders Australia; Board Member at IFVP
  • Jonathan Holloway  – Artistic Genius and Giant Thinker. Director of Festivals and Events
  • Lynne Cazaly – Cazaly Comm   Better Ways of Thinking & Working, Expert in Adaptability & Sensemaking, 6 x Author, Speaker
  • Mykel Dixon – Creativity Guru and Innovative Teams Expert through experiences
  • Tanya De Jong  – Creative Universe,  Soprano at Creative Universe, Creativity Australia, Mind Medicine Australia & Creative Innovation
  • Roger Lasalle – La Salle Matrix Thinking  Expert in Innovation Training – Opportunity Capture and Technology Commercialisation worldwide

TOP INNOVATION CONSULTING & TRAINING COMPANIES IN AUSTRALIA

  •  NSW     Market Intelligence  B2B  market research, Industrial market research, customer satisfaction, benchmarking, engagement and loyalty research (incl. NPS)
  •  NSW     Central lnnovation    Architectural design solutions, innovation, CAD design, and technology partner
  •  NSW     Phuel    Learning Design and Delivery, Conference and Offsite Facilitation, Innovation – Change – Resilience – Profiling, and Behavioural and Technology based Simulations
  •  NSW    Coredata  Global behavioural and strategic insight, Business intelligence, Market analysis,  research, In-depth analysis, Commercial foresight
  •  Tas        Artibus  Education Management
  • VIC       Innovation Training –  Roger Lasalle  La Salle Matrix Thinking  – Opportunity Capture and Technology Commercialisation worldwide
  • VIC       Orange Squid     Growth, Growth Strategy, Strategy, Transformation, and Innovation
  •  VIC       G2 Innovation    Design Thinking, Innovation Training, Design Sprints, Transformation, Developing Innovative Ways of Working, and Employee Experience
  •  VIC        inventium   Innovation, Creative thinking, Facilitation, Idea generation, Change, Growth, Productivity, Focus, and Adapt
  •  WA        Applied Innovation     Performance Mastery, Innovation and Creativity, Customer Service, High Performing Culture

world innovation experts

WORLD’S BEST INNOVATION EXPERTS & CREATIVITY SPEAKERS

  • Cyril Kortleven -Belgium  Global professional & TEDx speaker  on Innovation and Creativity
  • Jeremy Gutsche -Canada Trend Hunter     Expert in Creativity, Innovation, Management and Artificial Intelligence
  • Stu Lloyd – Hong Kong  Hotheads Innovation  ​Cutting-edge creativity and innovation training courses
  • Fredrik Haren – Singapore   Global Speaker and  Creativity Expert
  • Saul Dobney – South Wales      Dobney market research, business-to-business research, web surveys
  • James Taylor – UK         SpeakersU   Keynote Speaker on Business Creativity, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
  • Richard Foulkes – UK         The Paradise Experiment              Experimenter
  • Daniel Levine  – USA       Avant-Guide Institute     Trends Analyst, Online & Live Trends Presenter

BEST INNOVATION CONSULTING COMPANIES WORLDWIDE

  • Finland Viima    Innovation management, Idea management, Software as a Service, Open Innovation, Online co-creation, and Employee Engagement – Innovation Tool
  • UK         GlobalWebIndex             Digital Media Consumption, Audience Profiling, Research and Trends, and Consumer Insights
  • UK         b2b International             opportunity within a new market, assess your new or existing product/service portfolio, improve your customer experience, or reposition your brand
  • USA       Netmind             Business Agility, Digital Innovation, Digital Transformation, Change Management,  LEGO Serious Play, Management 3.0, IIBA, PMI, SAFe, Design Thinking, and IC Agile
  • USA       New and Improved         New & Improved, Become a powerhouse of innovation
  • USA       Sis international              Competitive Intelligence
  • USA       Crayon.co           Marketing and competitive intelligence
  • M Brain – Market Intelligence, Monitoring Services, Strategic Analysis & Advisory, Social Media monitoring, Intelligence Software, and Intelligence Best Practices
  • Innovation in Practice    new product development, innovation, technique, creativity, inventors, brainstorming, ideation, business innovation
  • Board of Innovation        new business models, trends, innovation consulting,  monetization, service innovation, ideation workshops, design thinking, innovation transformation, and design thinking
  • Europe  Strategyzer        Innovation, Business Tools, Online Learning, Masterclasses, Innovation Platform, Books, Management, Strategy, and Innovation Metrics

INNOVATION EXPERTS AROUND THE WORLD

  • Clayton Christensen
  • Larry Keeley
  • Ed Catmull
  • Peter Thiel

innovators dilemma book

BEST BOOKS ON INNOVATION BY INNOVATION EXPERTS

  • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen disruptive innovation
  • The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton Christensen et al
  • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation & Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen
  • The Innovator’s Guide to Growth by  Scott D. Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield and Elizabeth J. Altman
  • Ten Types of Innovation by Larry Keeley, co-founder of innovation consultancy Doblin
  • The Innovation Manager’s Handbook Volume 1 & 2 by Steve Glaveski
  • The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley

Books that were Early Classics on Innovation

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. Tech Adoption Lifecycle
  • Diffusion of Innovations – Everett M. Rogers

Books on Creativity & Being Creative

  • Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Ed Catmull (Pixar) and Amy Wallace
  • Originals by Adam Grant, a Wharton professor of organizational psychology
  • Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko. – techniques to boost creativity
  • The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret A. Boden
  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
  • Human-Centered Design Toolkit by IDEO
  • Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price – Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
  • Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World – Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba

Books on Start-up Innovation & Lean Startup

  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya
  • Reality Bites by Guy Kawasaki
  • The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel. VC and Paypal founder
  • Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares. Works by Ash Maurya
  • Lean Enterprise: How High-Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale – Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O’Reilly

Books On Innovative Strategy

  • Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
  • Transforming NOKIA by Risto Siilasmaa
  • The Curve Ahead: Discovering the Path to Unlimited Growth by Dave Power
  • Blue Ocean Strategy by INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne,

Books On Implementing Innovation –  Developing an Innovative Culture

  • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality – Scott Belsky
  • High Output Management by Andy Grove
  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove from Intel
  • BOLD by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler – go big and impact the world
  • From Impossible to Inevitable – for IT Businesses
  • Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
  • Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn
  • Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin from the U.S. Navy Seals
  • Ego is the Enemy by  Ryan Holiday’s
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

 

Here are some similar Hot Conference TOPICS related To Innovation & Creativity

  • Better Decision Making
  • Design Thinking
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Neuroscience
  • Brainstorming
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Business Model Canvas
  • Visual Thinking
  • Graphic Thinking

 

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

  • https://www.ideatovalue.com/inno/nickskillicorn/2016/03/innovation-15-experts-share-innovation-definition/
  • https://www.braineet.com/blog/innovation-experts/

CELEBRATE INNOVATION WITH AN EVENT

Make sure you celebrate UN World Creativity & Innovation Week in APRIL every year.

Visit IP Australia in Canberra and see some Australian Inventions.

 

 

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