Who is Braden Kelley?
I am an innovation speaker, trainer, marketing strategist, and recognized thought leader.
And also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"I help organizations use social media and other tools to attract and engage customers, partners, and employees to help the organization achieve its goals.
If you're looking to create a culture of innovation, tackle some of your innovation barriers, train your employees to be more innovative, or build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Category Archives: Creativity
Is GE Trying to be Too Quirky?
Last week GE and Quirky announced a new partnership where GE will make some of its library of patents available as part of Quirky’s new inspiration platform, allowing inventors to use some of its patents in their potentially novel consumer … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, Innovation, Open Innovation, Product Innovation
Tagged GE, Idea Connection, innocentive, NineSigma, Quirky
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Stop Praying for Education Reform
When it comes to education, we should adopt Nike’s famous motto and ‘Just Do It’. In the United States (and probably many other countries around the world), it has become a popular pastime to complain about the state of the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Design, education, Headlines, Innovation, Social Innovation, Strategy
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Become a Certified Nine Innovation Roles Workshop Facilitator
In support of my crowdfunding project over on IndieGoGo I am offering an incredible deal to the first TEN (10) individuals to grab this perk: In exchange for each $500 investment, the first TEN (10) people anywhere in the world … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, culture, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management, marketing
Tagged Nine Innovation Roles, Public Seminars, Workshops
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A Creative Marriage Proposal
I found this video via @MeghanMBiro and @berget and I just had to share it. It’s a wedding proposal from an actor in my hometown to his now bride to be, and is a great example of re-imagining a traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, marketing, Psychology, Strategy
Tagged community, Customers, funny, Love, Oregon, Portland, Sales, selling, Video, Wedding Proposal
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Do you have an Anti-Creativity Checklist?
I came across Yougme Moon’s “Anti-Creativity Checklist” over at the Harvard Business Review after a tweet from @lindegaard and it got me thinking… In order to build a culture capable of encouraging innovation or creativity (or both), you must first … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, culture, Innovation, Psychology
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Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce
Not much has changed since 2010 when on Blogging Innovation (which has now become Innovation Excellence) we asked the following question as part of a series of Innovation Perspectives: What product or sector is in desperate need of innovation?‘. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, education, Innovation Perspectives
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Instinctual Innovation versus Intellectual Innovation
One of the best Twitter names that I’ve come across in the past few years is @ShowerThinker – almost as cool as mine – @innovate. It’s an account for an inventor that makes post-it notes for the shower called Aqua … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Psychology
Tagged Instinctual Innovation, Intellectual Innovation
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The Importance of Play to Innovation
A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults – and keeping it up can make us smarter … Continue reading
Innovation Not Allowed on Kickstarter?
I’m in the throes of bringing The Nine Innovation Roles to life in an interactive card game for use in workshops and team meetings, and as someone who writes about harnessing external talent, it only made sense that I should … Continue reading