Executive Lunch-Workshop:
101 lessons for innovators
4. september | Epicenter, Oslo
11:00 - 13:00 - Executive Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 - Actionable Innovation Assignment
Break through barriers, spark creativity, and turn ideas into action with Gijs van Wulfen,
one of the world’s top innovation experts.
Meet Gijs van Wulfen
Your workshop leader, Gijs van Wulfen, is a globally recognised authority on innovation. He is a LinkedIn Influencer with 310 000+ followers, and awarded by Thinkers360 with the title of #1 Global Influencer on Design Thinking in 2025. He has written seven books on ‘starting innovation’, of which, The Innovation Maze, was crowned as The Management Book of the Year 2017 in The Netherlands.
He inspires and advises Fortune 500 companies such as 3M, Phillip Morris, NTT-DATA and Wärtsilä. Gijs teaches managers at all levels of the organisation how to systematically innovate to transform innovative ideas into reality. Thanks to his methodologies, you are able to think creatively in every situation, a skill that creates a culture of innovation at companies. Gijs is an illustrative storyteller
with an articulate informal style which is full of insight, humour, and entertainment.
What’s this workshop about?
In an interactive way, international innovation authority, Gijs van Wulfen, shares inspiring and practical insights from his latest book on how to break innovation barriers in your organization in Norway.
You will analyze the major obstacles to innovation in your organization, and develop the best strategies to boost
I-nnovation WE-nnovation in your organization to create impact. A lot of practical activities will make this workshop a real experience for you. Your personal take-away is a bespoke innovation assignment for your organization.
Key Benefits:
5 key Take-Aways from this ‘Breaking Innovation Barriers’ workshop:
1. Identify your major innovation barriers.
2. Learn 15 strategies to win management buy-in for innovation.
3. Pick the right moment for innovation.
4. Learn to WE-nnovate instead of I-nnovate.
5. Draft a clear and actionable innovation assignment.
Programme:
11.00 Introduction
11.30 Fifteen strategies to win management buy-in for innovation
12.15 Lunch
For those who can stay, we continue with:
13.00 Session: ‘When’s the sweet spot for innovation in my organisation’?
13.30 Session: ‘A clear, inspiring an actionable innovation assignment’
14.15 My main take-away
15.00 Closure
A Special Gift for You!
Everyone who joins the workshop will also get a signed copy of his latest book "Breaking Innovation Barriers: How to win management buy-in for change"
It’s his bestselling guide that provides the ultimate guide to overcoming the barriers in your innovation journey —
and now you’ll leave with both the experience from the session and a book you can use as a playbook afterwards.
Simple, practical, & personally signed — just for you!
Grab Your SPOT!
Join an elite community of conscious leaders and innovators.
Date: 4. september
Place: Epicenter Oslo
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