Nils Vesk

Validated ideas on demand. Rapid, risk-free innovation that won't cost you a fortune. When a business operates at a supersonic MACH 3 pace, we don't have the luxury of taking a few days to think of a solution, especially when someone else is gunning for your position. On the fly, we need to be able to analyse a pressing problem and generate profitable solutions, followed by validation and a strategy to validate and execute. In short, we must create rapid commercial solutions as quickly as possible. YOU'LL LEARN: • Validate your ideas rapidly and inexpensively to eliminate the risk • Flip the bottlenecks costing you time & money into innovations • Tap into the innovation cognition regions of the brain • Facilitate and prompt innovative thinking ideas with just one question • Create rainmaking ideas from scratch "Fantastic at coming into an organisation and peeling back the layers to help find where we can be more innovative." - Jon D'Sousa

Insider secrets to change performance mindsets. We live in a rapidly evolving world that needs people to be adaptive and open to changing how they think. Rethinking business and life challenges, and having the ability to think differently to create groundbreaking ideas that effect positive change. Being able to 'un-think' how things used to be done and then rethink how things 'need' to be done in our evolving world are a must. In this session, you will learn how to identify the habits and thinking that hamper your ability to contribute to game-changing thinking & how to rewire your mind in order to accelerate your success by thinking the unthinkable. YOU'LL LEARN: • How to break your limiting habits and beliefs • How to start rewiring what you thought was possible •Ways to eliminate unwanted behaviours • How to deal with discomfort • How to create valuable ideas effortlessly "Compelling, informative, stimulating, hopeful. Great confident delivery." - Sharon Leadbetter, Mental Health Association of NSW

Everyday innovation for the time-poor. Innovation doesn't have to take long. In fact, we can innovate with as little as five minutes a day. Now more than ever, innovative ideas are the currency for success. While we know innovation is valuable, it's a sad fact that too many people in organisations don't have the time to innovate... Or do they? The good news is no matter how time-poor or how crammed our heads might be with traditional business management skills, with Nils' 5minute innovation techniques, anyone can start innovating to improve their results. YOU'LL LEARN: •Mental deck of quick practical processes to solve problems •Redefine problems to discover the crux of a problem •Use models to deconstruct & prevent mistakes •Simple daily activities that generate improvements "Absolutely brilliant. Put a new perspective on my thought process." - Rory Muscat, Bankwest

Uncover what your customer really wants to pay for. Insights that will fuel your business growth Want to know the starting blocks for the world's best innovations? It's insights. An insight is a word commonly used but seldom understood. It's a human truth, be that a customer frustration, need or desire, or emerging trend that has yet to be capitalised on. Most of us make the mistake of generating ideas without clarifying what customers think and the emotional undercurrents that drive their purchasing behaviour. Focus groups don't work due to biases, and people suck at predicting how they will behave in the future. The secret lies in observing and decoding how they behave to what you put in front of them and what they are thinking but not saying aloud. YOU'LL LEARN: • Spot critical trends that will affect your industry and market • Uncover the emotional undercurrents that are driving your customer behaviour • Learn the drivers to shift customers from inertia into action • How to join the conversation your client is having in their head with the product or service you are selling "Great presentation - clear message." - Kylie Donovan, NSW department of training & education