Who is Braden Kelley?
I am an author, innovation speaker, workshop facilitator, and change specialist .
And also co-founded the world's most popular innovation web site:
"I help organizations increase their organizational agility and accelerate their speed of innovation and organizational change.
If you're looking to create a culture of continuous change, tackle some of your innovation barriers, train your employees to be more innovative change agents, or to build a more profitable, more social business -- let's talk."
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Category Archives: collaboration
Every Company Needs an Innovation Coach
Innovation is not a solo activity. While the rare lone genius may be able to invent something on their own (although still always inspired by others), nobody can innovate by themselves. Innovation, by its very nature, requires collaboration. Companies are … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Innovation
Tagged coaching, Curiosity, facilitation, in-person training, innovation advisor, innovation advisory, innovation coach, innovation consulting, innovation training, Innovation Workshop, Inspiration, instructor-led training, live training, Open Innovation, training
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Get Social with Your Innovation
If your organization is struggling to sustain its innovation efforts, then I hope you will do the following things. Find the purpose and passion that everyone can rally around. Create the flexibility necessary to deal with the constant change that … Continue reading
Google’s Insights into Successful Teams and Managers
A little over five years ago I created an evolution of a Gary Hamel framework from The Future of Management that I titled The Innovator’s Framework and included in my popular first book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire. Recently Google recently … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, Leadership, Management
Tagged Google, Innovation, managers, success, teams
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Building a Global Sensing Network – Revisited
When I first wrote about Building a Global Sensing Network I wrote in the specific context of the war for innovation and the need to make sure you’re fighting it outside your organization — not inside. We looked at how … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, Innovation
Tagged downloads, Ethnography, frameworks, free, future, Insights, Networking, Social Business, Trends
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Your Chance to Help Change Change
My first book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire was designed to help organizations identify and remove barriers to innovation, but readers also found it to be a great primer on how to take a structured, sustainable approach to innovation, and as … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, Innovation, Management
Tagged Books, change management, organizational change, planning, publishing, Surveys, Thought Leadership, Tools
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What Change Roles Are Missing?
I’m gearing up to write a new app and book on organizational change to complement a powerful new visual change toolkit that will be incredibly useful for use in change programs, project and portfolio management, and even innovation, and so … Continue reading
Let’s Chat About the Language of Innovation
It was bound to happen sooner or later… What is it you might ask? Well, it is the recognition that the language we use (and more importantly, having a common language) when it comes to innovation, to change, or to … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, culture, Innovation, Leadership, Management, marketing, Social Media, Stikkees
Tagged common language, Communication, communications, innochat, language, tweetchat, Twitter, twitter chat
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Where Does Value Come From?
Where does value come from? What makes people willing to pay $50 for a t-shirt that’s just like the one that ten other people are wearing in the club? What makes people pay a premium for Apple products with features … Continue reading
Your Chance to Help Overworked Entrepreneurs
Life for a busy entrepreneur regular working 60 hours a week can lead to a struggle with maintaining a healthy weight. You may find that you are eating out for convenience and getting to the gym very infrequently (if at … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, Headlines, Heatlhcare, Innovation, Open Innovation, Social Media
Tagged careers, health, health care, healthcare, jobs, Premera, wellness
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Your Chance to Help Working Professionals
Today life in our college years feels somehow more manageable than the hectic pace of the working professional. Somehow it feels like it was easier then to eat reasonably well and to stay in good shape. Recent college graduates feel … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, Creativity, Headlines, Heatlhcare, Innovation, Open Innovation, Social Media
Tagged careers, health, health care, healthcare, jobs, Premera, wellness
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