Creativity Cultivator Podcast - Turning Your Business, Your Team And You Into A Creativity Cultivator

Barry McGeough is Vice President at Innovation Next, which is PVH Corp's in-house innovation agency. PVH owns iconic brands like Calvin Klein, Speedo, Tommy Hilfiger and many others. Barry is committed to growing iconic global brands by creating award-winning, innovative technical solutions for apparel, gear and footwear that performs and appeals. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Arne Boberg is an award-winning design engineering specialist at 3M and also the founder of Boberg Arms, where he invented a new way to make the standard semi-auto handgun, the Boberg XR9-S! With 23 years in manufacturing and machine design, and 10 years in product design, he has a unique perspective on what it takes to make products, break molds and recover from epic failure. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Mike is the founder of Social Money, a financial services company that included SmartyPig.com, a consumer goal-based savings app, and CorePro.io, an innovation technology platform for banks and fin-tech companies to deliver powerful and modern digital banking experiences. Prior to Social Money, Mike had more than 15 years experience developing strategic marketing and technology initiatives on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, serving as a Director at The Integer Group, an Omnicom Group affiliate, which is one of the largest marketing agencies in the country. Social Money was acquired by Q2 in November of 2015. Q2 is an online and mobile banking solutions provider headquartered in Austin and a publicly traded company. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Dave Birss spends his time demystifying creativity for individuals and organizations Dave has corporate attention deficit disorder. He's gone through a whole bunch of careers, including session musician, stand-up comedian, university lecturer, nude model, poet, patented inventor, radio breakfast show host and advertising creative. He's now an author, consultant, keynote speaker, broadcaster and the founder of OpenforIdeas.org Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Ivan Cash is an award-winning artist / director whose multidisciplinary work celebrates human connection and is loved by the internet. His work has exhibited internationally, is in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum in London, has been featured in TIME, CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, Fast Company, Wired, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees. He has been recognized as a 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 artist, an Art Directors Club Young Gun, a Print New Visual Artist, and was named one of Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies.’ Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

In this 2016 recap, Justin Brady goes over the common theme all guests wisdom has in common and how, exactly, you can implement all our guests advice one person at a time. Also, we dig into an HBR piece on failure and the previous podcast guest that invited Justin onto his own show! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

It's not every day you meet a literal household name. If you aren't familiar with Tomas DeLuna, look around your house, you might have one of the wildly popular GE Artistry Series appliances in your house, condo or apartment right now. And he's not done yet, he gives us an idea of his secret project at Harman. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Rachel Cooke is the founder of Lead Above Noise and is laser focused on making work, work better. She shared her 5 step process her clients go through. It's called Super Candor. Super Candor is a way to crush fear in the workplace, encourage better more creative ideas. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Lou Prosperi is author of The Imagineering Pyramid, which was recommended to me by the likes of Dan Pink and David Burkus. The book goes into detail on the thought process that made Disney come to life! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Danielle discusses how they are tapping into our love of craft and artisan process. We all have that love of craft beer, gin, vinyl records and real film, but Kodak has figured out a clever way to add the convenience of digital at the same time. (Side Note: Did you know Kodak invented the digital camera?) Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

For those that just discovered the podcast, this is Part 2 with Dan Ariely. Part 1 is here. Dan is the James B Duke Professor of behavioral Economics at Duke University and has made the NYT Best seller list multiple times. This week we discuss how to celebrate failure without celebrating stupidity, how to remove the correct restraints for exploration and we also discuss how to tell someone they're wrong, without destroying their autonomy, motivation, and creativity. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Dan Ariely? I was totally star struck. Dan discussed his work on why we are so irrational, his new TED book called "Payoff" and discusses, with data and research just how important trust is to spur superstar creativity. He discusses how the crushing regulations on physicians, and how they are killing their life-saving potential, turning them into cogs with no critical thinking potential AND how legal contracts might actually hurt your creativity and productivity. Why are we so irrational? How does it kill our good will and how can we fix it? Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

What a privilege it was to sit down with my good friend, Jason Kiesau, author of Focused: Your Future Starts Now. Currently, he is speaking all across the country unpacking how focus harnesses the effectiveness of creativity. He is also the leadership and talent development manager at Aureon located in the midwest. Go to www.creativitycultivator.com for the show notes.

Courtney Klein is Co-Founder and CEO of Seed Spot a startup incubator/accelerator focused on positive social change. Companies that apply to be in SeedSpot must focus on a product, service or technology that improves lives. She founded SeedSpot in Phoenix and is now expanding nationally to Washington DC and other major cities. Particularly interesting, is that Seed Spot doesn't allow sharking and doesn't take equity in any of the startups or ideas. Go to www.creativitycultivator.com for the show notes.

Tom Gray is CEO of Make48, where teams compete to develop products and companies in only 2 days. A diverse audience from all over North America participates and the competition is proof that anyone can be a creative mastermind. Make48 is sponsored by companies like QVC, will be nationally broadcast on PBS and has Shark Tank winners helping out. He is also the founder of Handy Camel, which has made numerous products you likely have in your own home, like the Handy Camel clip, and Garden Thorn. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Neetan Chopra is the VP of Innovation and Technology at Emirates Group, the company behind Emirates Airlines! In this episode we discuss what he calls cracking the egg from the inside. When the egg is cracked from the inside you have new life, when it is cracked from the inside, you have destruction. Go to justinkbrady.com/podcast for updates.

Doug Powell is directing design thinking across the global tech company but many know Doug from when he served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and oldest design organization in the world. Doug discusses how IBM has stayed relevant over the last 100 years and also why positive changes and transitions can actually be met with hostility if you aren't careful. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Shawn Lee is one of the most prolific musicians of our generation. He has released 34 albums and has played, produced and written on hundreds of records with artists including Jeff Buckley, Kelis, Money Mark, Amy Winehouse and others. You likely have heard his music in both film & TV on The Monuments Men, Oceans 13, Eastbound & Down, Ugly Betty, Nip Tuck, Confessions of a Shopaholic and many others. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Dr. Herbert Bresler is the guy in charge of Battelle’s Neurolife Project. Neurolife has made it possible for quadriplegics to regain the movement using their own limbs. They basically “read” the brain waves and re-introduce that brain data into the arm via a specially designed sleeve that stimulates muscles! Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Steve Farber has a LOT of passion for developing people, turning them into creative powerhouses and in this very energetic episode, we unpack how to grow engaging, creative employees and Steve talks about one of his hidden failures that looked like a success. Go to www.justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.