AM I GOOD AT GENERATING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS IDEAS? DO I KNOW HOW TO FIND INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE PEOPLE FOR MY ORGANIZATION? DO I KNOW HOW TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO BE MORE CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE AND TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX?

If you are a manager who is concerned with her/his company’s future, you probably found yourself debating these questions. But telling your employees “be creative” when they ask “how to think outside of the box” is a generic and unhelpful answer. In an era when companies struggle to be innovative and creative, compete on talent, and constantly look for the next big thing, it is time to think differently – about the way we do business, the people we hire, and how we train them.

In this talk, “A Renaissance of Renaissance Thinking – Why Business Needs The Arts,” (Executives version), Nir is challenging our way of thinking about the relations between art, entrepreneurship, science and technology and about the relations between artists and innovation. He especially advocates the connection between artistic talent and business entrepreneurship, two areas that fuel each other and provide endless opportunities for mutual learning.

By revealing trends and upcoming changes in the world, he highlights the importance of being creative and adopting, what he calls, The Artistic Mindset. Using examples of leaders in the business world that have already capitalized on art and creativity, he raises questions that help to initiate a change in paradigm and break the ice between business professionals and the creative world.

A “mind-blowing journey to the importance of art in business”, “game changer session” and “unconventional and one of the most unique talks I have ever attended” to name a few of the comments from his listeners.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Originally from Tel-Aviv, Israel and currently based in Madrid, Spain, Nir Hindi is an entrepreneur who, though rooted in the world of technology and business, always has one foot in the creative world. He is the founder of The Artian, an innovative company that empowers organizations and leads them to be more original by using a special training based on a unique method that adopts practices, processes, and techniques from the art world and integrates artistic thinking into the business and entrepreneurship worlds.

He is a part of the training professionals of Financial Times|IE Corporate Learning Alliance and a mentor and visiting professor in IE Business School Executive Education where he teaches Creativity for Sustainable Business Growth, a guest lecturer at the Master for Design and Innovation in IED (Istituto Eurpoeo di Design), where he lectures on entrepreneurship for creative fields. He has given talks at conferences and academic institutions such as South Summit, IN3, Barcelona Design Center, Department of Innovation in Bar-Ilan University, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and The School of Design at the College of Management in Israel.

Moreover, in the monthly Art & Tech event series he initiated, tech entrepreneurs, designers, artists, and business professionals come together. With years of experience in entrepreneurship and starting few ventures, he is now a mentor in few startups programs in Spain and Israel.

Executive Breakfast: Renaissance of Renaissance Thinking - San Francisco