About Creativity Unleashed

Creativity Unleashed was formed in 1995 by Brian Clegg, at the time a senior manager with British Airways. The company brings together five seasoned professionals to provide world-class training on creativity both independently and has also acted as the creativity provider to the Financial Times training group, FT Knowledge.

Creativity Unleashed trainers have worked with many large organizations in all sectors including British Airways, the BBC, GlaxoSmithKline, Barclays, The Met Office, The Treasury, Nissan, The Royal Bank of Scotland, EWS Rail, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Scottish Enterprise and McCain Foods. We have given public creativity seminars in London, Manchester, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, and contributed to the Open University, Oxford University business school and Henley Management College courses.

The company does not employ trainers – instead it works with established experts in creativity who bring their breadth of practical experience to the training sessions.

Brian Clegg

Director.

Brian is a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and has Masters degrees from Cambridge (Natural Sciences) and Lancaster (Operational Research) Universities.

After 17 years in the corporate world, specialising in finding innovative ways of using computers and information to benefit business, Brian established himself as a consultant, freelance journalist and writer. His particular contribution is ensuring that our business content contains a strong thread of creativity and humour.

He has contributed to a wide range of magazines, including Personal Computer World, Professional Manager, PC Week, Good Housekeeping, Computer Weekly, PC Dealer, Innovative Leader, BBC History and the WWW-based magazine, V3.

Co-author, with Paul Birch, of Business Creativity, the best-selling Imagination Engineering (1996), DisOrganization, Instant Teamwork, Instant Creativity and Crash Course in Creativity. Solo titles include The Chameleon Manager, Creativity and Innovation for Managers, Instant Time Management, Capturing Customers' Hearts and Mining the Internet. He has now written over 30 books, translated into 10 languages.

In 2001 launched a new writing career in the more general non-fiction/popular science arena with Light Years, an exploration of humanity's fascination with light.

Paul Birch

Associate

Previously employed by British Airways in a range of roles, including Corporate Jester - an internal consultant who challenged and provoked at all levels. Has worked in many corporate functions including information management, marketing, finance, operational research, engineering, and strategy. His particular contribution is breadth of business experience and powerful consulting skills. Since leaving British Airways he has provided creativity consultancy to businesses in many sectors across the country.

Director of VisionJuice.

Has written articles on self-development, primarily focused on creativity and innovation.

Co-author, with Brian Clegg, of Business Creativity, (1995) from Kogan Page, the best-selling Imagination Engineering (1996), DisOrganization, Instant Teamwork and Instant Creativity. Solo titles include Instant Leadership and Instant Coaching.

Ian Keenan

With a commercial background in blue-chip companies to Board level (Marketing Director), Ian is comfortable in working at all levels in an organisation. Ian has extensive experience in providing consultancy over a wide range of organisational and management development issues.

Ian has worked with a wide range of companies and organisations including corporates such as Kraft Foods International, AEA Technologies, Consignia, Esso Petroleum and Barclays Bank, government Departments and Cranfield School of Management. Ian has a wealth of practical experience, a high level of interpersonal and social skills, a strategist with excellent workshop facilitation style, and in depth understanding of and practice in counselling, coaching, creativity  and personal change arenas.

Peter Cook

Peter has 25 years business, academic and consultancy experience spanning leadership of innovative new product development teams, internal consultancy, international troubleshooting and recording and performing in rock bands.

Author of Best Practice Creativity and Rock 'n' Roll Management.  Tutor on a number of MBA programmes.  Architect of all post-MBA Alumni masterclasses for the Open University Business School.

Brian Lincoln

Brian was a senior manager in W. H. Smith (marketing) before leaving to set up Creative Dimensions consultancy. An early adopter of Creativity Unleashed’s Imagination Engineering framework, he has helped a wide range of clients from both public and business organization to be more creative and to develop strong team orientation.