Coming Events

28th November 2024, 18.00-20.00 local time

Bristol Innovators' In-person Event

The Bristol Innovators’ Group was set up to help people in Bristol, UK learn, connect and do around the topic of innovation. This is an evening of reconnecting and discussing the agenda for 2025.

5th December 2024, 14.00 UK-time, 15.00 CET

Innovation Leadership Online event

The Innovation leadership group is part of the wider and global ISPIM network. On 5th December, Eugene Frances will be explaining how he set up a forum for more than 4,000 people, with very diverse perspectives, designed to help inventions and ideas find new applications in areas unfamiliar to the originators.

Video Learning

Leading Innovation in Ecosystems

A short video sharing lessons from researchers around the process of leadership in ecosystems. And how they help develop novel forms of value.

Composing original film scores for natural history films

Will Goodchild explains his creative process for working with others to produce creative sound for films for the award-winning Chimp Empire.

Written Pieces

The Psychologist

The psychologist magazine is aimed at the UK’s professional psychologists. In this edition, Rob outlines his most recent book, Pieces of Us, explaining how it focuses on community cohesion and social capital. And he outlines the forces that sustain and break these at community level.

Styles of problem-solving affect how we proceed with change

Here is a free online journal article, written by Dr Rob Sheffield outlining the influential theory of adaption-innovation and how leaders have learnt to apply it for good.

Books

How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams: Innovation Catalysts - Book Cover

How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams

“A book that is both engaging and inspiring! Reading through the common pitfalls and mistakes to avoid, I started to realise why some of the workouts failed to achieve their intended goals. This book is a must read for those who need creativity and innovation to meet their everyday challenge.”

Bo Hu, Product Quality Director, Greater China, GE Healthcare

Pieces of Us by Rob Sheffield

Pieces of Us

“A beautifully crafted tribute to people, relationships, time and place. Set within an historic, social, economic and political context ‘Pieces of Us’ is an intelligent and at times deeply moving celebration of the power of human storytelling and the central importance of belonging, connectedness and community. This is a must read for anyone interested in the power of social capital and asset based approaches to mental health and wellbeing.”

Dr Rhiannon Cobner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Child and Family Community Psychology

Innovation Leadership in Practice

Innovation Leadership in Practice

“While not all of us need to become leaders of innovation – leading and driving highly innovative projects forward, I certainly believe that many more of us need to become leaders for innovation: understanding ourselves and our attitude towards innovation and being truly appreciative of diversity. Innovation Leadership in Practice makes a great contribution to what this might look and feel like, at all different levels: individual, team, organisation and ecosystem.”

Bettina Von Stamm, book foreword