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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Latest Radio Interview with The Health Maven
I’m proud to share with you the link to my latest radio interview. This time I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with LeAnna J. Carey (@thehealthmaven), host of the popular radio program The Health Maven – Innovation … Continue reading
Harnessing the Global Talent Pool to Accelerate Innovation
In this webinar hosted by Innocentive I explore how organizations can utilize open innovation and crowdsourcing resources as an essential talent management strategy to drive their business. You can engage me to create a webinar or white paper for your … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Open Innovation, Strategy
Tagged collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Employees, innocentive, solutions, success, Talent, Video, webinar
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Social Media is the Glue of Innovation
Social media serves an incredibly important role in innovation. Social media functions as the glue to stick together incomplete knowledge, incomplete ideas, incomplete teams, and incomplete skillsets. Social media is not some mysterious magic box. Ultimately it is a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Social Media
Tagged Accelerator, collaboration, communications, Engagement, Tools
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – May 28, 2012
“The more successful an organization becomes the bigger it gets. The bigger it gets the more it focuses on optimizing its resources. The more it optimizes it resources the more it eliminates variation. Innovation requires variation. We have seen the … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged brains, collaboration, Innovation, Learning, Nine Innovation Roles, Organizations, Psychology, resources, success, teams, Variation
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The Napkin PC and Other Innovative Ideas
I came across the web site for a Microsoft-sponsored alternative computing form factor contest a few years ago, and even still I must say there were a few interesting ideas that might help people begin to see the future of … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Technology
Tagged collaboration, Computing, future, mobile, Napkin PC
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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 19, 2012
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison “Growth and innovation are driven by customer insights discovered through customer observation and conversation.” – Braden Kelley “The hardest part of … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged Business, charity, collaboration, Government, Innovation, Opportunity, Social Innovation
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Innovation Can Come From Anyone
“Innovation can come from anyone, but it is required from everyone for an organization to remain successful.” Or taken another way: “Innovation can come from anywhere, but you must be looking everywhere to find it.” Innovation comes from good listening, … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation
Tagged collaboration, ideation, Insights, observation, roles, solutions, value
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