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FEI Studio Extended Sessions

We all get into ruts where we start going through the motions. Our extended sessions are here to keep you enthused about what you do... to create
avenues for personal inspiration… to rekindle the innovation fire. Throughout the event, choose from three extended length sessions in the inspiration
studio on Culture Hunting, Business Improv, and Finding your Passion.
Executives
Above, executives have some fun with business
improv exercises.
Applied Improv for Leaders:
Principles & Practices for
Innovative Leadership
Tuesday, 11:15-12:30
Michelle James, CEO, The Center for Creative Emergence, Founder, Quantum Leap Business Improv
Creativity is increasingly being recognized as the most valuable leadership skill, and essential to establishing a consistently innovative work culture. Innovative leaders rely on breaking habitual patterns, trying new things, exploring, discovering, and taking informed risks - just like improvisers. Creative leaders and improvisers both have to make spur of the moment decisions, synthesize emerging information, make others look good, make relevant connections, bounce back quickly, and serve the big picture. In this dynamic, fun and highly experiential session, participants will experience a variety of Applied Improvisation principles, practices and techniques for novel and creative thinking, collaboration and group co-creation. By doing the non-habitual, you open up to ideas and new possibilities...and more confidence navigating ambiguity and uncertainty.
Todd Henry
Todd Henry (far right) leads a brainstorming session on finding your personal passion. He stresses that all of us,
regardless of our role, have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.
Passion For Work: Wednesday, 11:00-12:15
Todd Henry, Author, The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice
The marketplace is ripe for revolution. It will be sparked by those who embrace work as a spiritual quest,
hell-bent on changing the game or exhausting themselves in the attempt. And now, especially as the world
tries to find a way through economic malaise, we need courageous leaders who are willing to step up,
channel their passion, and empty themselves each day in the pursuit of brilliance. Passion for work is not a
self-centered thing. It becomes awakened as you find a problem that you are uniquely obsessed with or
equipped to solve, or one that awakens and leverages dormant skills. When you channel that passion into
something useful to others, the world around you changes. In this session, Todd Henry will lead you through
a process for identifying your passion, and a framework for applying it to the work you're already doing.
Culture Hunting:
From Prospective View to Creating the Future, Tuesday, 3:00-4:15
Mikel Cirkus
Above, Mikel Cirkus and Steven van der Kruit lead FEI EMEA attendees on a Trenz®Walk in Zurch. Steven and Mikel are said to be among the top 10 global Trend Visionaries - and are involved in hundreds of Innovation projects around the globe.
Steven van der Kruit, Creative Director & Visionary,
Firmenich Perfumery & Mikel Cirkus, Global
Director, Conceptual Design, Firmenich Flavors
There is an aspect of the future that is predictable. Those who understand trends have the ability to influence what actually happens – seeing relationships that lead to new ideas, making connections of things seemingly unrelated, perceiving smart re-combinations. Firmenich, a world leader in fragrance and flavors, has developed and are employing a strategic tool -- Trenz® -- for identifying and interpreting socio-cultural events and forecasting the next important industry and consumer trends. This presentation describes this new methodology and how it helps us to focus on the long-term – thinking waaay ahead.