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- As a former Global Executive Director, George has had responsibility for a portfolio of over $352 million. He understands the need for creative innovation in a business to drive the P&L. At one point, he successfully launched 19 products in 14 months that indeed required different thinking to find value in a highly conservative market. George’s diverse business and science background brings many unique perspectives that others are missing. Having worked in over 24 different industries, he brings that extensive experience to audiences worldwide using a unique approach to different sustainable Breakthrough Thinking™. George authentically shares a toolbox that anyone can use to deliver performing innovation quickly.
Biography
About George Nagle – MS, MBA
George’s diverse business and science background brings many unique perspectives that others are missing. Having worked in over 24 different industries, he brings that extensive experience to audiences worldwide using a unique approach to different sustainable Breakthrough Thinking™. George authentically shares a toolbox that anyone can use to deliver performing innovation quickly.
George delivers a series of keynotes, masterclasses on creative ideation, and workshops on sustainable innovation, using unique tools to help everyone grasp fun, exciting and tangible outcomes. He takes everyone’s success seriously and embraces the needs of those he is helping. George ensures that he has a firm understanding of his clients regardless of their market. At one point, he obtained a real estate license to understand the needs of partners in that sector!
The presentations immediately engage the audience to get them moving out of their comfort zone playfully and safely. Active demonstration of how to conquer the fear of change is paramount as you start the journey to delivering creative innovation that has value in months, not years. We explore the underpinning thought processes people undergo at work and why they keep producing stagnant products.In the journey, we unlock everyone’s innate creativity to inspire projects people want to work on together. Some of the more frequently requested topics are 1) Unleash Creativity To Increase Productivity, 2) Achieve True Innovation In Eight Months, 3) Communicated Strategy To Drive Engagement, 4) Happiness At Work Is Possible, and 5) The Five Letter F Word.
The best way to learn tools is to use them. George sits down with your teams and demonstrates the tools using your concerns in real-time. This sets the stage for bringing communication, prioritization, and strategy into focus with fun, simple, and memorable tools for work and home. The tools bring out the need for diversity and inclusion, clearly defined areas of focus, customer values, natural team formation, system utilization, busy work elimination, engaged cultures, value-adding voice of customer, employee retention, next generation of leaders, revolutionizing ideas, and an intense urgency to deliver market-changing innovation. All of this results in outperforming the market, so you no longer have true competitors.
George has a black and multiple green belts in different academically accredited innovation processes such as Innovation and Growth Systems, Green Belt for Growth, and Value Innovations. He is a certified online instructor in the FORTH method as well. George also holds a Master of Science in Biology and an MBA in Marketing and Management from Duquesne University. He graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Biology.
In addition to founding The Ideation Emporium of Creativity™, he is the author of the Breakthrough Thinking™ series for business and life. The series includes “The Five Letter F Word™,” “Miserable At Work? Why? You Don’t Have To Be™,” and “How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™.” George also wrote a fictional spy series, “The Life We Lead: Ascending, Trials, and Sacrifice.” The last two of this series are in the works!
George feels lucky to be a single foster and adoptive parent to multiple amazing boys. He actively mentors youth in the foster system. He is also a master instructor in taekwondo and a volunteer coach with local youth sports.
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Achieve True Innovation in 8 Months
The simple phenomena creative brands employ to make people wonder how they innovate so quickly.
There never seems to be enough time in the day to get to everything that we have going on. Deadlines at work, important social events, the kid’s extracurricular activities, and the list goes on. All of these things can make you feel like it is a win if you can bring out a mere iteration in a few years.
However, you see competitors or groups in other industries launching true innovations, and it feels like they are doing it every time you turn around! What is the secret?
What if, in our quest to deliver so many things, we inhibit ourselves from delivering anything of value to anyone, especially ourselves?
It turns out the answer is very simple. They understand how to make time their ally. This naturally brings out the best in everyone that is allowed to participate so everyone can succeed.
In this exhilarating 60-minute keynote presentation, former executive director and author George Nagle describes how he led a group to launch 19 products in 14 months in the highly conservative world of oil and gas chemistry. You will be inspired, not merely motivated, because you will walk away knowing how to deliver this immediately with actions you will start before even leaving the presentation. Your comfort zone will be challenged in an engaging way that is simple, effective, and, more importantly, achievable at work and at home.
There isn’t a big mystery around the concept, but understanding it might be the trick others are missing.
Three Takeaways
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Less is more using the power of 3.
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Customers need to be in the ensemble.
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Time is your ally if you let it be.
POST EVENT: After your event, George Nagle puts in the effort to follow up. Ten days after the event, he will have scheduled meetings with a few different team members to ensure action is taking place. He wants you to succeed!
Unleash Creativity To Increase Productivity
Fun at work isn’t cliche when intentional. Open and present organizations know it increases productivity by 20 to 40%.
Making a mistake often feels to the individual significant to the person that made it. When a culture develops the idea that the leaders can’t admit or acknowledge mistakes, it has a repressive effect. The repression stifles creativity and drives down productivity.
Forced functions, especially outside of work hours, don’t promote a fun atmosphere at work for 75 to 80% of employees. Doing odd games that have no relevance to an objective is counter-productive.
Imagine releasing creativity with your teams and customers that deliver new markets. You get automatic buy-in and an eagerness to want to complete a project fast. Pushing people goes away and is replaced by productivity that is measurable and sustainable.
In this captivating 60-minute keynote presentation, former executive director and author George Nagle breaks down how he led a group to launch 19 products in 14 months and a $352 million portfolio. You will leave with an understanding and method to allow for a culture that builds on trust. The trust allows you to inspire individuals to unleash their creativity so you can increase productivity.
A renewed energy filters throughout the organization allowing you to increase output. Your new biggest issue might become having too many amazing ideas to work on that everyone wants to complete!
Three Takeaways
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Being open encourages creativity.
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Staying present builds trust.
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Intentional fun reduces stress for better productivity.
POST EVENT: George Nagle will customize a video to bring intentional fun to your organization. It will be designed to take less than 20 minutes and cost under $10. This action will actively indicate to your ensembles you are dedicated to them and positive change.
Communicate Strategy to Engage Your Culture
The #1 issue in any company is communication, but so few companies share the power of strategy.
We all know that the weakest link of a chain determines the strength of that chain. The same can be said for the strength of an organization. Those that are slowest, underfunded, understaffed, and, most importantly, least informed will be the limiting factor to success. They are just doing tactics without a defined direction, which according to Sun Tzu is “the noise before defeat.”
Why are so many companies struggling with getting the information throughout an organization? Is it fear that competitors will find out? A lack of understanding? Limited confidence in those that work around you?
What happens when we let go of all of those fears and communicate repeatedly, and consistently, the importance at the individual level?
Cultures start to change and people become energized. Things that would take years start to get accomplished in months. Your organization becomes the envy of the market and your biggest worry is when you are going to begin to cannibalize your own market share before your competitors start to catch up.
In this illuminating 45-minute keynote presentation, former global strategist and author George Nagle talks about how he developed multiple global strategies for multi-billion dollar enterprises. You get a methodology for developing a strategy that consistently drives performance while empowering achievement at all levels of the organization. It engrains a culture of succeeding together in a fun and simple way.
It is simple, but simple doesn’t mean easy. It will require some discipline from upper management and an openness to letting go of how things have been done before- after all that is how your competitors are doing it.
Three Takeaways
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Set out the top 3 objectives; talk about only those constantly.
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When you think everyone knows the message, they are just starting to hear it.
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Tell everyone, individually, how they impact the strategy.
POST EVENT: Follow-up with three members of the organization: the CEO, a middle manager, and an entry-level hirer will happen with George Nagle in ten days. During this session, he will work through communication to drive faster creative innovation for everyone.
Happiness at Work Is Possible
“When you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life.” We all know that quote, but more than 90% of people don’t think it is possible.
Imagine if it was the other way around? That only 10% of the population felt that they are miserable at work. The amount of enthusiasm might be so high that you would have to set a new standard for hiring as you get thousands of applications for any opening because people want to work with you.
When we understand how important it is to enjoy what we do, we truly develop a deeper comprehension of the significance of our relationships as humans. We like to work with our friends, and that is more than half of the battle to being happy at work.
Opening up the understanding of our relationships also means we dig deeper into finding and accepting the value we hold for anything that we do. When we don’t see value in a task for ourselves, we loathe doing it. Think about filling out paperwork; does that bring you value or someone else? Do you like doing it?
In under 60-minutes, George delivers a keynote presentation on what makes people happy and how to bring it into the workspace that naturally will spill over to home life. The methods and tools that are presented are designed for immediate use while being fun to employ. The trust allows you to inspire individuals to unleash their creativity so you can increase productivity.
It is time we start making work intentionally fun. When we do, the innovation that will naturally come will drive astronomical revenue and profitability.
Three Takeaways
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You need 5 positive to 1 negative interaction.
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Misery at work comes from not understanding the value of doing any task.
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Being actively heard and contributing creates happiness.
POST EVENT: George Nagle will follow up with several tools to help promote within your organization a desire to bring out happiness for everyone. These tools will be shared at multiple levels to aid in the communication process.
The FIve Letter F Word
Focus.
The amount of distractions that people face has been increasing for decades. Adding onto that, the expectations of output with the increase of technology and we get individuals that are very busy, but not always productive. They certainly are not happy.
Incredible data sets have demonstrated that when people focus, they achieve fantastic things in very short periods of time. They also derive satisfaction, eagerness, and self-esteem.
What happens if we start to take a few things off of people’s plates at work? Or what happens if we only allow for a few things?
Cultures start to change and people become energized. Things that would take years start to get accomplished in months. Your organization becomes the envy of the market and your biggest worry is when you are going to begin to cannibalize your own market share before your competitors start to catch up.
In this illuminating 45-minute keynote presentation, author of The Five Letter F Word™, part of the Breakthrough Thinking™ Series, George Nagle focuses on how you can. You get a methodology for developing a strategy that consistently drives performance while empowering achievement at all levels of the organization. It engrains a culture of succeeding together in a fun and simple way.
The shift in perspective to focusing on a few key items enables growth for your business by helping people grow.
Three Takeaways
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Setting people up for success means eliminating distractions.
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Communication is more important than being right.
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Everyone is a customer.
POST EVENT: Within a few days, a very direct and personalized message to your company will be sent in a video from George Nagle. This video will be the reminder for how your ensemble can focus, and also a motivator to take action.
Programmes & Workshops
Creative Innovation Masterclass
You can expect the unexpected throughout a full-day session with George. It doesn’t matter if it is a day full of ideation or reduction, you will be leaving your comfort zone in multiple ways to generate Breakthrough Thinking™. With the recognition that every journey is different, we are going to touch on some aspects that most clients want in their day. The journey is going to immediately get you on your feet and interacting with everyone around you in a different way. This is a key indicator of what is about to be discovered throughout your session. The What and Why are important so we bring awareness to barriers that we all have and why they are there. This leads to some exciting openings that we can immediately put to use. We will do some exercises that all have a very strong relationship to the topic at hand, but are so fun, you may not realize it at first. This allows for self-discovery and is why everyone that attends leaves feeling refreshed, empowered, and inspired to use the tips and tools they just learned. Mastering the tools takes almost no time and they truly can be used that day. George spends time working with your team, in the session, on your problems to actively demonstrate how easy it is. You will start with outside examples but quickly transition to working with your team on your problems. The tools themselves are simple. So simple that often a pen and a piece of paper are all that you need to work with any of them. Each is designed to get you out of the space that you are in. That space could be your physical environment, the space we live in with the rules that define us, or even your own headspace by becoming someone else. At the end of the session, everyone receives a toolkit that they can take with them. It has numerous little tips and reminders about the tools so that the day’s journey can be used the next day, next year, or even the next decade to come. It is our goal to have everyone bring out their creativity and keep it out. This system is designed so that Breakthrough Thinking™ isn’t confined just to the day’s event. We want it to be the Present that gives the Gift of the future.
Engaged Culture Masterclass
We being the day by getting everyone laughing and moving. This sets the expectation and indicates to the participants that this is going to be different. The power of everyone seeing an immediate difference in what we are setting out to do will begin to open people up as they start to hope. We boost the hope of true cultural engagement coming by bringing the participants awareness. The awareness is about how we perceive ourselves and the world. Once we recognize our own bias and accept it, we can then take action on it. The bias we have can often be a block to our own happiness. We will do some exercises that all have a very strong relationship to building connections, but are so fun, that you may not realize it at first. This allows for self-discovery and is why everyone that attends leaves feeling refreshed, empowered, and inspired to use the tips and tools they just learned. We will spend a large portion of time on communication. We will walk through the 5 C’s that we introduce below. The team will begin to see how the methods of communication matter and that following these methods will improve their work and home lives for the better.
Priortization & Strategy Masterclass
True market-changing innovation can and does happen fast when you are clear on your culture, speak with customers, and focus on prioritization. Understanding where you are going is key to finding the paths on how you will get there. Determining which paths, solutions, and services are the most impactful often needs different views in order to select the best ones. Once selected, a meaningful, unburdened, all-hands-on-deck approach is essential to get to the market in a focused and deliberate manner. When executed with our strategy results are usually 10x other methods because of the speed and constant customer involvement. Creating a new business or even a business stream can be a challenge, but we can show you how and help you execute. With a deep understanding and global execution in multiple companies on strategy, we can help your team streamline the process. Strategies need to be shared in order to be useful. When they deliver prioritization as well, then you have a plan to dominate a market.
Voice of Customer Masterclass
How do you do Voice of Customer? For many is often talked about and poorly executed. True VoC takes place with customers actively participating in projects. This includes multiple discussions around their value needs (not what they like, don’t like, or what they would improve) that go way beyond a survey. The first place for innovation is with customers. There must be a discovery of value that is about them. In fact, we recommend that there are three distinct conversations that take place before you do anything more than a simple drawing. When you conduct Voice of Customer, you need to have more than just the sales and marketing staff interacting with customers. You also need to excite the customer's so much that they will want to actively work on the project with you. There is an art to this that also follows a process. We are happy to work with your teams to have them take a presentation to a discussion about value. Then you can change the markets that will eliminate competitors.
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The Five Letter F Word™
Miserable At Work? Why? You Don't Have To Be.™
How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™
