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Innovation and transformation leader, design thinking facilitator, an author, innovation speaker, and makes tools for innovation & change .15,000+ Email Subscribers
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"I help organizations increase their organizational agility and accelerate their speed of innovation and organizational change.
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Author Archives: Braden Kelley
Four Reasons the Big Quit Exists
Turns out the pandemic prompted mass numbers of employees finally say, “take this job and shove it” to employers and careers they don’t like. Life is too short to be miserable at work. In a recent NICE Webinar, we discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Psychology
Tagged Big Quit, call centers, contact centers, COVID19, global pandemic, Great Resignation
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Reducing Employee Churn During the Great Resignation
For those of you struggling with your staffing levels or with finding talent during these exceedingly challenging times, I have exciting news to share! My latest commissioned webinar is now available ON DEMAND: Stop the Madness! How to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, Leadership, Management, Psychology
Tagged global pandemic, Great Resignation, jobs
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Harnessing the Dragons of your Imagination for Innovation
The harder I try not to think of myself as an artist, the stronger I’m pulled back to the idea that even if my art is a little different than traditional drawing, painting, photography, music, dance and other traditional arts, … Continue reading
Good Design Makes Technology Disappear
The late Clayton Christensen wrote a little book called The Innovator’s Dilemma that many of you I’m sure have read. Many people think of it as a book about disruptive innovation, but it can be much more than that if … Continue reading
Creating Innovation with Hardcore Soft Skills
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Yadira Caro on the Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast. In the episode I define what innovation really is, how people, process and technology come together to create innovation and where people go wrong. … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation
Tagged Interviews, people, podcasts, Process, technology
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Building a Learn It All Culture
Don’t Be a Know It All Trying to be a “know-it-all” is a flawed goal. It is impossible to know everything. This is by design. This is by intention. In much the same way that programming languages have garbage collection … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Government, Innovation
Tagged corporate learning, Curiosity, education, eLearning, Microsoft, training, unlearning
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Keeping Pace with the Latest Trends in Social Media and Online Video
The ways we communicate continue to evolve. Keeping pace with the latest trends in social media and online video, while preventing your product or service from getting lost in the digital clutter, is a daunting task. David Meerman Scott is … Continue reading
Posted in marketing
Tagged Advertising, authors, Business Authors, David Meerman Scott, Interviews, Public Relations, Sales
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Chance to Help Make Futurism and Foresight Accessible
I’ve been hard at work building all kinds of tools to help innovation, change, transformation and design thinking practitioners be more successful in their jobs. The number of human-centered tools in the Change Planning Toolkit v13 from the initial fifty … Continue reading
Creating the World’s Best Change & Transformation Book
On Friday I was speaking with my publisher Palgrave Macmillan (now part of Springer) about doing a second edition of Charting Change. This means that my publisher is interested in having me create a new version of Charting Change that … Continue reading
Marketing Gimmick of the Year – 2021 – Air Protein
The winner of the 2021 award for Marketing Gimmick of the Year has to be Air Protein. The marketing premise is that the company is creating a scalable process for creating protein from ‘thin air’ using a $32 million Series … Continue reading
