Coming Events
Bristol Innovators' Event: loneliness and connection
Loneliness, social isolation, and disconnection are growing – at a cost to our mental and physical health, and to our economy. Loneliness Awareness Week (9-15 June, 2025) is a global campaign hosted by Bristol charity Marmalade Trust, and people from Marmalade join us at this event to ask for ideas. How might our city step up and become more connected? And what’s the role of innovation and our innovators’ group. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-innovators-group-first-meet-up-of-2025-tickets-1255788109039?aff=oddtdtcreator
Innovation Leadership Online event
The Innovation Leadership group is part of the global ISPIM network. We’re interested in how leadership enables the innovation process, from opportunity to idea through to value. At our April meeting, we’ll share the latest progress on our Competency framework for leading innovation. And we’ll review the recent Cape Town conference and share our plans for Bergen in June 2025. (Interested to know more? Click on the link below.)
Video Resources
Leading Innovation in Ecosystems
Lessons from recent research on how leadership can enable new forms of value in ecosystems.
The Science of Change
Professor Richard Boyatzis was one of the originators of the competency movement. At our March 2025 meeting, he shared insights from his recent book – The Science of Change – and the far-reaching implications for leading innovation.
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
Reports & Workbooks
Kirton Adaption Innovation Report
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Situational Outlook Report
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Books
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
“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
“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