About Elvin Turner
Elvin Turner is an award-winning consultant, TEDx speaker, and associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship & creativity at several business schools.
Elvin has coached and facilitated hundreds of strategy and innovation programs around the world for companies including Universal, Telefonica, Cisco, O2, Santander, and Accenture.
Elvin’s work spans consulting, facilitation, conference speaking, leadership development, and coaching.
His experience extends from working with new and disruptive technology start-ups to seasoned leadership teams inside conservative, global institutions.
His free “Innovation Essentials” training course, based on his MBA teaching, consulting experience, and “Be Less Zombie” can be accessed here.
Be Less Zombie: How Great Companies Create Dynamic Innovation, Fearless Leadership and Passionate People
Be Less Zombie distills 10 years of field research amongst some of the world’s leading innovators into a pragmatic, actionable toolkit. Designed for managers who need more remarkable innovation with repeatable, scalable approaches, it shows readers how to:
- De-risk bolder, more profitable innovation
- Make innovation a predictable and measurable capability
- Equip managers with essential tools and skills for leading innovation and transformation
- Help teams find new capacity and energy to deliver today’s business whilst discovering tomorrow’s
Turner’s research also delves beyond the business world. He brings insights from a wide range of unexpected, expert sources including a guerrilla negotiator, a cage-fighter trainer, an X-Factor coach, a senior emergency room doctor, and a fashion designer.
His ‘Turn It On’ innovation framework gives leaders and managers tools, processes and pathways to make bolder and more profitable innovation an inevitability, not an anomaly.
This book is for:
- CEOs who need a better, more continuous pipeline of profitable innovation
- Senior leaders who need more ideas, collaboration, and energy across their divisions
- Finance executives who want to resource innovation and yet measure it effectively
- Strategy, change, and transformation managers charged with delivering greater organizational agility and differentiation
- HR executives who are trying to resource and equip leaders and employees with innovation capabilities
- Organizational development managers tasked with shaping more agile and innovative ways of working
- Team leaders who need to help their people find new capacity and energy to deliver bolder ideas
- Individual employees who want their managers to stop blocking their best ideas
Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation advisor to global corporations, government bodies, not-for-profit organizations, and start-ups around the world. He is also an associate professor at several business schools. For more information visit www.elvinturner.com.
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