President and co-founder of Idea Champions, Mitch Ditkoff is a consultant specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, and leadership. Since 1987, he has facilitated workshops and meetings for "just about every industry on planet earth." He's the creative guru who's helped Merck, GE, NBC, Coca Cola, and many more household names take their innovation capacity to the next level.
For four years on a row, he's been voted a Top 5 Speaker in the field of innovation and creativity and was recently voted the #1 innovation blogger in the world. His internationally read blog The Heart of Innovation gives people advice and techniques on how to generate powerful ideas to grow their business, solve a problem, or find a new and better way of doing things. Mitch's work can also be seen frequently in The Huffington Post and his award-winning book, Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Idea Rolling (in an uphill world) .
In addition to his writing and speaking, he has been an adjunct faculty member at leadership development programs at schools like Duke's Fuqua School of Business, GE's Crotonville Management Center, and the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management.
President and co-founder of Idea Champions, Mitch Ditkoff is a consultant specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, and leadership. Since 1987, he has facilitated workshops and meetings for "just about every industry on planet earth." He's the creative guru who's helped Merck, GE, NBC, Coca Cola, and many more household names take their innovation capacity to the next level.
For four years on a row, he's been voted a Top 5 Speaker in the field of innovation and creativity and was recently voted the #1 innovation blogger in the world. His internationally read blog The Heart of Innovation gives people advice and techniques on how to generate powerful ideas to grow their business, solve a problem, or find a new and better way of doing things. Mitch's work can also be seen frequently in The Huffington Post and his award-winning book, Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Idea Rolling (in an uphill world) .
In addition to his writing and speaking, he has been an adjunct faculty member at leadership development programs at schools like Duke's Fuqua School of Business, GE's Crotonville Management Center, and the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management.
Team Innovation
Team Innovation - a highly engaging keynote or workshop - helps teams get their act together. A lively hybrid of reality check and all "hands on deck"...
Catalyzing the Creative Mind
There′s a lot of talk these days about the need to raise the bar for innovation and creativity. Understandably so. These are challenging times we find ourselves in. The game is changing, big time. Talk, however, is cheap. What your workforce needs is more than talk. What your workforce needs is a way to activate, accelerate, and apply their innate creativity on the job. So they can intelligently respond to changing times. So they can solve old problems in new ways. So they can generate new...
Humanizing the Workplace
How to Bring Out the Best of People on the Job
A recent national survey has revealed a disturbing fact: 62% of all Americans are dissatisfied with their work. And while the reasons for their dissatisfaction may vary from person to person, the resulting affect, on the job, tends to be the same - low morale, high complaint, and a general sense of disengagement.
People may be showing up for work on time, but not on fire.
Increasingly stressed with the challenge of having...
Creating a Culture of Innovation
When, Where, Who, Why and How
All business leaders want the same thing - and that is an organizational culture that is agile, adaptive, and conducive to sustainable innovation.
Easier said than done, however.
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Storytelling At Work
Most forward thinking organizations, these days, have launched (or are launching) some kind of "change initiative" designed to raise the bar for innovation. The language they use to describe their ambitious goals may vary, but it usually has something to do with "gaining a competitive edge" or "differentiating ourselves from the competition" or "establishing a culture of innovation." A noble effort, indeed.
While each of these organizations have their own, unique game plan...
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A&E Television Networks
On-Site
A.R., CEO, A&E Television Networks
The two day retreat you designed and facilitated for our leadership team was excellent. You helped transform our meeting into a truly dynamic and worthwhile experience.
General Mills
On-Site
K.B., Marketing Manager, General Mills
As a result of your efforts, I now have the most highly motivated, self-driven, creative and fun team this division has seen in recent history.
Duke Corporate Education
On-Site
M.C., Managing Director, Duke Corporate Education
Mitch Ditkoff's highly engaging approach, combining creative energy and business practicality, is a real winner. His process and practical tools help people experience innovation in the moment, and more importantly, enables them to apply the learning back home with their own teams.
Alcoa
On-Site
H.K., Vice President, Alcoa
As I reflect on your workshop, I find that the takeaways from that single day have proved much more valuable to me than some of the more extensive consulting inputs I have received from large brand name consultants my company interacts with. The practical emphasis you made on the human side of innovation hits the mark.
Merck
On-Site
M.S., Senior Director, Merck
Mitch Ditkoff offers pragmatic tools and insights that enable innovation. His approach is engaging, encouraging and creates an impetus for participants to apply the learning immediately.
Chubb Insurance
On-Site
M.A.H., Corporate Groups Development Manager, Chubb Insurance
Mitch Ditkoff has been a partner with the Chubb Business School for four years and has helped us drive the skillset and mindset of innovation throughout the organization. Definitely solid ROI!
