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Christian Byrge

Full professor and international expert on team creativity & innovative thinking skills

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Gender: Male
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Languages: Danish, English
Travels from: Denmark
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Biography Highlights

  • Christian Byrge, PhD, full professor and internationally recognised expert, brings a playful and research-based perspective to complex problem-solving. With more than 18 years of experience, he guides teams to new innovative heights. Book his keynotes to get a more professional approach to complex problem-solving, to get tools for idea generation and for developing a culture of team creativity.

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Why you should book Christian Byrge?

  • Get far more of those “why have we never thought about that before” type of ideas.
  • Develop a common language for creativity as well as a professional approach to finding solutions for complex problems.
  • Learn effective tools for getting more motivating and breakthrough ideas in your daily work with a curious, open mind.
  • Christian Byrge delivers a perfect mix of fun, energetic, and research-based insights as well as hands-on approaches to developing a creative culture in your team.

Kickstart creativity in your team

Christian Byrge has helped hundreds of teams develop innovative skills, build creative confidence, and get to know each other as curiously open-minded colleagues. With his input, you can also get help to develop meaningful idea systems, motivating support structures for innovative efforts, and, last but not least, be inspired to integrate the creative methods and tools in your daily work tasks.

His mission is to enable us all to work with more motivating and valuable ideas in our daily work – and to make better decisions because we will have better ideas to choose from.

Christian Byrge is the author of more than 70 publications on creativity and has given keynotes and workshops to more than 100,000 professionals in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the USA. He has extensive experience in bringing creativity into play across all kinds of disciplines and industries, including engineers, lawyers, managers, teachers, machine operators, software developers, doctors, film producers, and many more.

Do you also want a more playful and serious approach to complex problem-solving? And do you also want to become much better at getting inspiring new ideas, a curious open mind, and generally become better at seeing problems from surprising new perspectives?

Book a keynote or workshop with Christian Byrge to get deep insight and hands-on practical tools and methods for creative thinking in your team.

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Topics

  • Develop the skills to come up with new and useful ideas that go beyond the typical ideas that we have heard, seen, or done before
  • Learn to question the traditions and standards in your industry that are often taken for granted.
  • Explore the top five approaches for boosting creative thinking in your everyday job.
  • Learn how AI can be used in your creative and innovative work.

In many organisations, managers and employees are expected to be more innovative and creative in their work. However, many don’t know how to be creative on command or at will. Book this keynote, workshop, or training to learn how to access your creativity whenever you need it.

You will gain a common understanding of the value of creativity. A common language for when – and in connection with which problems – creativity is relevant for you. And you will get a more professional approach to idea development, problem exploration, and evaluation of the original ideas both in your individual work and in your team collaboration.

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  • Develop a far more visionary mindset to explore new opportunities in novel ideas.
  • Get a better foundation for decision-making when working on complex problems.
  • Learn how to integrate creativity in everyday problem-solving, user-centred problem-solving, and curiosity-driven problem-solving.
  • Gain insight into how AI can be integrated into your visionary exploration of new ideas.

For complicated problems, we need data and analysis. A rigorous analysis of the data will point to the best-known (already existing) solutions. But for complex problems, this is far too weak. For these problems, we rather need great ideas and visionary thinking. A visionary exploration of alternative ideas will point to possible new solutions for unpredictable and uncertain problems. Book this keynote, workshop, or training to learn how to develop your visionary skills.

You will gain a common understanding of why you must step away from the discussion and win/lose conformity-creating evaluations in the exploration of the new ideas. You will discover a more learning-oriented approach to idea exploration. You will also get insights into how AI can be integrated into your visionary exploration of new ideas.

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  • Get the four most important strategies to create an innovative team culture.
  • Learn how to nurture innovative skills, boost creative confidence, and integrate creativity into your daily work processes.
  • Understand how you can create support and reward structures for creative efforts.
  • Discover how idea systems can help you collect, evaluate, and select the best ideas.

All organisations need a continuous flow of new ideas to challenge and replace outdated ideas. We also need a strong imagination to continuously think of new uses of technologies, new relationships with customers, new workflows, and much more to create greater value and efficiency in daily work.

Think of creativity as an important skill set similar to language skills and math skills. We need to practice creative skills to develop innovative habits and get to know ourselves and each other as creative and inspiring colleagues. And we need to find meaningful ways to integrate creativity as a natural part of our everyday way of working. Book this keynote, workshop, or training to learn how to turn your team into an idea machine.

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  • Learn to stimulate students to get new perspectives on their problems and to come up with original and motivating ideas for their student work.
  • Develop the skills to define challenges that help students easily unleash their creativity.
  • Explore practical ways to integrate creativity into your topics and subjects.
  • Discover systematic methods for assessing and evaluating students’ creative processes and products.

Creative thinking is often mentioned as one of the most important skills of the future. But how do we nurture curiosity among the students? And what does it actually mean to be creative in everyday life at an educational institution? Book this keynote, workshop, or training to learn how to develop creative skills and creative confidence for the individual students as well as how to stimulate a creative culture across the educational institution.

You will gain a common language for creativity: what it means to be creative, when it makes the most sense to be creative, and how students can be creative individually and together. You will learn to evaluate the creative piece of work, both subjectively and (more) objectively. And you will get an insight into how AI can be integrated into the students’ creative work.

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Books

Everyday Innovator: 4 powerful habits to cultivate team creativity

This hands-on guide empowers individuals of all backgrounds to cultivate effective habits for enhancing creativity. Today, leaders and employees are expected to demonstrate increased creativity in their work. However, many lack the skills to be creative on command or challenge conventional thinking. This book provides a practical approach to developing creative skills, boosting confidence and foster a culture of creativity in your team. It guides readers through the four key creative skillsets, helping them turn each into a habit. The book equips readers with tools to challenge assumptions, generate novel ideas, stay open-minded and persuade others. It also highlights the benefits of creativity, such as driving innovation and better decision-making. Readers will learn to explore new areas, imagine ideas for better decisions, evaluate ideas with a learning mindset and present ideas persuasively. Everyday Innovator offers a hands-on guide for developing your creative skills, boosting your creative confidence and fostering a culture of creativity in your team.

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Everyday Innovator: 4 powerful habits to cultivate team creativity

This hands-on guide empowers individuals of all backgrounds to cultivate effective habits for enhancing creativity. Today, leaders and employees are expected to demonstrate increased creativity in their work. However, many lack the skills to be creative on command or challenge conventional thinking. This book provides a practical approach to developing creative skills, boosting confidence and foster a culture of creativity in your team. It guides readers through the four key creative skillsets, helping them turn each into a habit. The book equips readers with tools to challenge assumptions, generate novel ideas, stay open-minded and persuade others. It also highlights the benefits of creativity, such as driving innovation and better decision-making. Readers will learn to explore new areas, imagine ideas for better decisions, evaluate ideas with a learning mindset and present ideas persuasively. Everyday Innovator offers a hands-on guide for developing your creative skills, boosting your creative confidence and fostering a culture of creativity in your team.

How To Teach Creativity: A hands-on guide for a holistic development of creative competencies and confidence in education.

This book is intended for educators and leaders in education who want to be serious about developing creative competencies and confidence. • This has been the most important and useful learning experience in my 16 years of education. • Within a week my brain was totally reconfigured. • I now dare to approach any problem creatively. • I can now produce as many ideas as I like, literally. • I learned to apply and produce far more knowledge, and in ways that are more meaningful. How to teach creativity in schools, youth education, vocational education, higher education as well as in professional education? There are lots of books about creativity in education. However, this may be the first to offer a research based, yet completely hands-on, guide for developing a systematic and holistic advancement of creative competencies and confidence. With this book you can: • Design creativity as a course on its own. • Integrate creativity teaching into existing subjects. • Prepare assignments and activities that foster creativity. • Practise individual and team creative process work. • Develop creative learning environments. • Perform holistic evaluations of creativity. • Advance creativity so that it becomes second nature.

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How To Teach Creativity: A hands-on guide for a holistic development of creative competencies and confidence in education.

This book is intended for educators and leaders in education who want to be serious about developing creative competencies and confidence. • This has been the most important and useful learning experience in my 16 years of education. • Within a week my brain was totally reconfigured. • I now dare to approach any problem creatively. • I can now produce as many ideas as I like, literally. • I learned to apply and produce far more knowledge, and in ways that are more meaningful. How to teach creativity in schools, youth education, vocational education, higher education as well as in professional education? There are lots of books about creativity in education. However, this may be the first to offer a research based, yet completely hands-on, guide for developing a systematic and holistic advancement of creative competencies and confidence. With this book you can: • Design creativity as a course on its own. • Integrate creativity teaching into existing subjects. • Prepare assignments and activities that foster creativity. • Practise individual and team creative process work. • Develop creative learning environments. • Perform holistic evaluations of creativity. • Advance creativity so that it becomes second nature.

Enhancing Creativity for Individuals, Groups and Organizations – Creativity as the Unlimited Application of Knowledge

How do we become creative individuals, by ourselves and with others? How do we increase innovation in our work or study environments? How do we learn to think in unlimited ways? The answers to these questions can be found in this book, which presents new methods for enhancing our own and others’ creativity. Creativity is the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship. At the core of creativity is the ability to see original connections and to combine our knowledge in new ways. It’s about finding creativity within ourselves and releasing our creative potential without being limited by our social, cultural or professional backgrounds. Using a newly developed scientific theory combined with three practical and thoroughly tested methods, scholars Christian Byrge and Søren Hansen demonstrate how to increase our possibilities for creative thinking in both our academic, professional and private lives. And their methods are effective! In Denmark, national enterprises have worked with the approach of the creative platform to create new work environments where the employees play, break up old patterns and put all their knowledge into action, and the results have been remarkable. The practical part of the book is based on action research carried out in cooperation with various Danish companies, schools, hospitals, ministries, universities and local government administrations, as well as with Defence Command Denmark. The book is aimed at readers who wish to make others more creative, including leaders, coaches, educators, advisers and teachers.

Read more..

Enhancing Creativity for Individuals, Groups and Organizations – Creativity as the Unlimited Application of Knowledge

How do we become creative individuals, by ourselves and with others? How do we increase innovation in our work or study environments? How do we learn to think in unlimited ways? The answers to these questions can be found in this book, which presents new methods for enhancing our own and others’ creativity. Creativity is the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship. At the core of creativity is the ability to see original connections and to combine our knowledge in new ways. It’s about finding creativity within ourselves and releasing our creative potential without being limited by our social, cultural or professional backgrounds. Using a newly developed scientific theory combined with three practical and thoroughly tested methods, scholars Christian Byrge and Søren Hansen demonstrate how to increase our possibilities for creative thinking in both our academic, professional and private lives. And their methods are effective! In Denmark, national enterprises have worked with the approach of the creative platform to create new work environments where the employees play, break up old patterns and put all their knowledge into action, and the results have been remarkable. The practical part of the book is based on action research carried out in cooperation with various Danish companies, schools, hospitals, ministries, universities and local government administrations, as well as with Defence Command Denmark. The book is aimed at readers who wish to make others more creative, including leaders, coaches, educators, advisers and teachers.

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