A Coffee House in Your Mind 
 
Coming up with radical, new ideas can be challenging. I know because I have been doing it for a living for over 15 years. We all tend to get stuck in our preferred ways of thinking; it is comfortable and very human, but at the same time detrimental to innovation and creativity. This keynote will take you on a journey to explore the critical importance of diversity, specifically cognitive diversity, in both teams and within your own thinking.  

I share a series of practical strategies you can apply to your teams and yourself to harness the power of diverse thinking. These strategies can be used for businesses or public service agencies, and even personal relationships to challenge engrained ways of thinking and enable us to tackle the big complex challenges ahead of us.

Karin brings together a powerful mix of strategic-level consultancy experience and a deep passion for impact-driven projects. Her natural leadership qualities have given her the capacity to unpack and assimilate multifaceted problems and resonate with a wide gamut of stakeholders, inspiring them to solve complex challenges at a strategic-systems level.

She leverages her international experience, having lived, studied, and worked in seven different locations across Europe and Asia, combined with her skills in design and storytelling to create meaningful new ideas founded on real human needs.

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She is regularly engaged to deliver knowledge-leadership sessions on innovation and design for organisations such as Visa, the Civil Service College, and General Assembly. Prior to joining Chemistry, her consultancy expertise was honed in Zurich, Switzerland, working as Creative Director for the innovation think tank arthesia, as well as for IDEO in Singapore.