An adaptable mindset: create the right mindset for innovation
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Creative Director and expert on technology and innovation guiding some of the world's leading companies
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My daily job is to drive innovation in corporates, and to me that is all about bringing new perspectives. Robert is a master in just doing that. He uses inspiring, fun examples that are touching and tickling at the same time. He has found an unique way to connect his artistic background to this techy world we are living in. The only way to survive in this fast paced world, is to be able to adapt constantly. Robert's program about the adaptable mindset is a great way to get surprised and inspired!
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With over a decade of experience in innovation, speaker Robert Overweg found out that fixed mindsets are often at the root cause for unsuccessful innovation and many people subconsciously are against creativity and innovation. At the same time, however, the world keeps on evolving with new technologies and changing markets every few months.
To fix these issues, Robert founded the Adaptable Mindset program in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam to help people become free, creative and to help them see opportunities. Use the full richness of life (art, philosophy, games, movies, science) as fuel for innovation and life. This will help you to develop the mental dexterity that you need to spot new ideas, and to be open to them. Create a calm and focused mind. Learn to mitigate stress and filter the noise to create freedom to think. Break free of limitations. No more fear of failure or the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Speaker Robert Overweg doesn’t just run and build innovation teams and startups. He also gives lectures at MIT, SXSW and the European Commission about the balance between mankind and technology. He also held exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou and the media biennial in Seoul.
Robert is a speaker who offers a diverse and broad range of inspiration which surely move your teams forward. If you are still in doubt, check out a few testimonials! Be sure to expect a very visual and fast paced presentation – that opens the mind but also delivers with real practical things you can apply, directly.
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With the Adaptable Mindset program you learn to imagine other worlds, to think freely again, create a calm mind, and find joy in life and work. While at the same time get the tools to bring your ideas into reality. You can learn people new skills and new tools, but the shift in mindset is the biggest block to successful transformations. (Mc Kinsey)
Mindset is often overlooked. What people think and feel, fixed beliefs, deeply held assumptions and blind spots; and emotionally, in the form of the fear and insecurity that change engenders. All of this rolls up into our mindset, which reflects how we see the world, what we believe and how that makes us feel. (HBR)
HOW
Use the full richness of life (art, philosophy, games, movies, science) as fuel for innovation and life. This will help you to develop the mental dexterity that you need to spot new ideas, and to be open to them. Create a calm and focused mind. Learn to mitigate stress and filter the noise to create freedom to think. Break free of limitations. No more fear of failure or the feeling of being overwhelmed.
This program can be customised to your needs. Use our proven techniques and tools to put your ideas into reality. Based on actual experience with start-up and corporate innovation.
With our proven Adaptable Mindset program we empower.
For most companies that have been around for a while, rigidity and corporate processes eventually creep into the system. They slowly start to see innovation as simply the next iteration of an existing product or service. Resulting in just iterative ‘innovation’ which isn’t a sustainable way for a business to stay ahead.
If someone is working on something that could potentially disrupt your business, it better be you. In order to achieve this, you’ll need teams that have a radical mindset and are hungry for disruption. A team that works according to the principles of radical innovation.
Having worked in the trenches of innovation, Robert has learned a lot from building his own teams towards a company of 160 people and building teams at Vodafone, Liberty Global, Ebay and many others.
In this presentation speaker Robert Overweg will show you what type of people you should have in your teams, how to streamline innovation by setting goals that give direction, in addition to discussing Amazon’s and Google’s surprising approach to the use of data in innovation. And finally he will provide you with the principles you need to make radical innovation thrive — all the while making sure you have some fun along the way.
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My daily job is to drive innovation in corporates, and to me that is all about bringing new perspectives. Robert is a master in just doing that. He uses inspiring, fun examples that are touching and tickling at the same time. He has found an unique way to connect his artistic background to this techy world we are living in. The only way to survive in this fast paced world, is to be able to adapt constantly. Robert's program about the adaptable mindset is a great way to get surprised and inspired!
Simone van Neerven - Head of Innovation
The goal is of the Adaptable Mindset program is to develop people who are free to create and free to change. So that it gives them and the company they work for the ability to move with any disruption or change that comes their way.
We can actually create open creative mindsets if we just give people the right inspiration, toolsets and ways to reflect.
What you will get from this?
To kick-start this mindset we start by generating a lot of input. We will expand the mind through the latest inspiration from the outliers in art, movies, games philosophy, anything that can stretch the notions of what is possible. You will, without a doubt be inspired and energized for change.
This inspiration is what I also use to guide the larger companies like Heineken, Vodafone, Liberty Global, and Ebay in strategy and digital transformation tracks. The insights I share at MIT, SXSW and the European Commission I will more than gladly share with you, combined with my other digital explorations and insights as an entrepreneur and artist.
The hack here is, to make the process fun and playful. This creates a better flow and makes the learners more receptive to the knowledge. This is scientifically backed but we actually know this by heart already.
When we have the energy flowing and our minds are receptive. We also need methodologies to train our mind to see opposing views, use our subconscious brain, practice critical thinking to have greater success in innovation and critically assess what to focus on.
Finally to help people cope with our busy society and the endless possibilities we also look at scientifically proven methods to create a calm
and free mind. To deal with the noise and to get rid of our default mode of thinking.
In the end it’s about making people more happy, resilient and innovative. One of the most beautiful gifts one can give. In return this creates more value for the company and more creativity and innovation.
I look at innovation and change in a holistic way. We need to water and nurture all of the aspects for people and innovation to succeed.
Every team, project and person is different. The program can be customized to your needs. Let’s find the blockers and opportunities within your company and use the ingredients of the Adaptable Mindset. To let you and your people move forward.
What got you interested in virtual reality?
I was at a museum in New York back in 2008 where I saw an application which could distract children with burn wounds from pain during their treatment. The combination of Virtual Reality, distraction of the brain, and the element of play gave impactful results. A decrease of 70-80% of pain while using VR. From that moment on I said to myself I want to create tools like this as well.
What would you like to achieve in the next 5 years?
I have been around the block of innovating and digitizing companies a few times now. However, in five years, creating a positive impact over the axis of large corporates is still really important to me. The reach and size alone of these companies can make such a large positive impact. Using design and tech to facilitate this.
I am also interested in supporting new eco-systems and building new models. Whatever moves us forward. Currently I support several projects, to name a few: a fact checking platform which is empowered by blockchain technology. Another project my team and I are working on is a health project to treat people’s PTSD through a virtual therapist. One could say that these are all projects that give tools for people to improve their lives. In the next five years, if the timing is right, several of these directions should have succeeded.
What is the biggest misconception people have about digitalizing their business?
Could you tell us 3 tips for embracing an adaptable mindset?
1. Stretch your brain
The most important thing to remember is that you’re looking to build a flexible mind that’s comfortable with being exposed to different kinds of thinking. Don’t be afraid to make your brain stretch in ways it hasn’t done before! It’s important to always stay curious so try to explore areas like visual arts, philosophy, science, cartoons, games, and design.
Listen to artist and philosophers for an example to stay ahead of the zeitgeist. If you would’ve listened to Keith Haring in ’78 or David Bowie in ’99 you would’ve been ahead in the computer and internet development. To understand how people interact with the technology you could’ve listened and read the late philosopher Zygmunt Bauman “In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change — as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.” You can imagine how these new relations open up new business models for companies and can shatter old models.
2. Accept multiple truths
An adaptable mindset has taught me to work with multiple truths simultaneously — which can be difficult to experience — but can be mastered. It has made my mind more open and has shown me market insights way ahead of other people.
3. Result
Since my mind has visited many strange and opposing theories which made me totally at ease with everything new, strange, and different that life throws my way. Embracing new technologies like AI or blockchain has become something fun and normal. I’m looking forward to working together with AI to create my designs and have been active with blockchain for years because I support the thinking behind it. This adaptable mindset has given me a constant advantage in technology. Simply because I adopt and adapt sooner than other people.
Read more here on The Next Web how music and art can help you in developing an adaptable mindset. Or read the full story here
How do audiences gain from your keynote presentations?
I always try to deliver an information dense independent presentation. To inspire people, show new possibilities but always with a critical view. It’s always a custom made story specifically for the client, with elements which are directly applicable to you or your business.
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