Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams

An essential innovation guidebook for leaders, managers, marketers, engineers -anyone who needs to develop creative solutions to tough challenges.

Today's innovation challenges are complex. Solving them requires diverse teams and a common understanding of thinking frameworks, process and tools. In Fire Up Innovation, you'll discover a proven gameplan to ignite your team's innovation engine. You learn how to collaborate successfully by embracing all diversity and building support to sustain a team through the innovation process.

You will learn by doing with plenty of examples and exercises to develop your own innovation process within the context of virtual and hybrid group and rise of Artificial Intelligence.

Discover:

- A simple formula for creating your high-performance innovation team

- Why diversity is critical to innovation

- How to limit conflict from your group's process

- The role of AI in innovation

- A new understanding of your own creativity

- How to innovate in a virtual or hybrid world

Author and Innovation Expert Helene Cahen is passionate about helping others access their creative potential and solve meaningful challenges in a team. In Fire Up Innovation, she shares all the tools you need to develop your own innovation process to use in your business, non-profit, education, or even your personal life. You'll find that your work becomes easier, more effective, more collaborative, and, ultimately, more fulfilling and joyful.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Helene Cahen, M.S., is an innovation consultant, trainer, facilitator, and speaker with over 20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is a successful speaker whose recent TEDx talk on high performance collaboration for teams was highly received.

She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting (previously Strategic Insights), where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture. She is also a coach for the Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Program.

Helene Cahen, M.S., is an innovation consultant, trainer, facilitator, and speaker with over20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting (previously Strategic Insights), where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture.Helene has been a facilitator, coach, and lecturer for the Haas School of Business, and vice president of innovation for a startup. She is in demand as a speaker on the topic of design thinking and creativity, and recently did a TEDx talk on high performance collaboration for teams. Trained in creative problem solving and design thinking, Helene received an M.S. in Creativity and Change Leadership from the Center for Applied Imagination at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. She also has a business degree from Sciences-PoParis, a top French Business School. Born and raised in Paris, Helene lives in Berkeley, California, with her family. She raised three children and in her spare time is a hiker, an improviser, and a meditator. She recently took up rock climbing to challenge her fear of heights.