Jeff DeGraff

The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict

in The Innovation Code, Jeff DeGraff, dubbed the “Dean of Innovation,” and Staney DeGraff introduce a simple framework to explain the ways different kinds of thinkers and leaders can create constructive conflict in any organization. This positive tension produces ingenious solutions that go far beyond “the best of both worlds.”

The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower Innovation

Jeff and Staney DeGraff introduce six essential creative-thinking skills that can be easily mastered with limited practice and remembered as the acronym CREATE: Concentrate, Replicate, Elaborate, Associate, Translate, and Evaluate. These six skills, sequenced as steps, simplify and summarize the most important research on creative thinking and draw on over thirty years of real-world application in some of the most innovative organizations in the world.

Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation Happen

Although many leaders acknowledge and invest in creativity, we seldom see it hold a credible place in the business development process. Creativity at Work takes a practical approach to creativity, showing how to select practices to produce results and add value.

Leading Innovation: How to Jumpstart Your Organization's Growth Engine

This session will present a simple approach for leaders to recognize, develop, and launch creative ideas into winning solutions that create value.

Business Design in the New Tech Centric World

We will explore how changes in the workforce, fluid organizational structures, network dynamics, ubiquitous connectivity, and the economics of fast growth are changing what leaders must do to succeed. We will focus on how to synchronize an increasingly complex and diverse enterprise to make innovation happen.

The Power of Diversity and Teams

This session will introduce a new way of thinking about diversity: how to identify the strategic situation, appropriate culture and competencies, and specific leadership practices necessary to produce growth. It will provide sound evidence that diversity pays.

Connecting the Dots of Innovation: Making Collaborative Innovation Work Where You Work

This dynamic and compelling session will show how to sync up your innovation strategies and practices to achieve your goals and create value.

Doing the Creative Work the Company Can’t

This lively and compelling session focuses on the creative development of the person: how they feel, how they think and how they act. It encourages individuals to design and follow their own creative path. When people are revitalized, they tend to put their creativity to work where they work.

Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and Improved

In this lively and inspirational session, the best practices from the most innovative organizations in the world will be explored. Their strategies and tactics will be explained, and more importantly, how they can be applied to your own life. It will provide pointers on how to aim for high quality targets, enlist deep and diverse domain expertise, take multiple shots on goal, and learn from experience and experiments.