As a leader, you’ve most likely been given the mandate to create a culture of innovation. Or perhaps, you’ve been given the high-pressure responsibility to overcome today’s new challenges and unearth new opportunities. Of course, in times of massive upheaval like today, this comes with an urgent deadline and incredible pressure to perform. Unfortunately,…

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Everyday Innovator: People leveraging their natural style of innovation to think differently about what’s right in front of them to create an advantage. Everyday Innovators are people, like you, who embrace innovation every day and across all aspects of their work and life. No special titles, no key initiatives, just you working smarter and taking a…

Are you innovative or do you leave that to other people? Tamara Ghandour discovered that innovation was something we all can do. Further, it’s not if we innovate, but how we innovate (we are all unique). Tamara created The Innovation Quotient Edge (IQE) (available on her website), which reveals your unique Everyday Innovator style and…

Tamara Ghandour was faced with a business challenge that needed the perspective of others. Focused on the outcome, Tamara was unable to generate a lot of ideas from the team members. She instead focused on rewarding the behavior of giving ideas, no matter how ridiculous the ideas were, and was able to come up with…

Tamara talks to Jim on School for StartUps Radio about how to leverage innovation for a competitive advantage, how innovation fits into chaos and more. As Tamara discovered in her 25 years of work and research, everybody has the capacity to innovate. It’s a person’s unique innovation style (which can be assessed and channeled) that…

We’re all familiar with the old phrase “what got me here, is not going to get me there”, and this is even more important when things are moving so fast and changing so quickly. The things that got us to success yesterday, or even today, aren’t working anymore, or they’re not working as well as…

Ditch passive presentations. Nine speakers who turn audiences into active participants.  Keynotes are tricky. Designed to kick off an event by setting the tone or theme, the keynote address can be the most expensive hour of your conference, with top speakers commanding from $10,000 to several hundred thousand dollars. And because the speaker is often…

In this episode of The Leadership Habit podcast, Jenn DeWall sits down with author, speaker and founder and president of Launch Street, Tamara Ghandour. Tamara shares her insight as an innovation expert on the four traps of certainty that leaders and organizations fall into that jeopardize innovation efforts. I’ve found a lot of value in…

We put a lot of time and effort into our main goal: Helping everyone understand not only that they can innovate, but also how they innovate. So, when other people notice our efforts, it’s rewarding as well as affirming. Affirming in the sense that we’re headed in the right direction, that our insights into everyday…