Happiness for Innovation

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With Jack Ricchiuto, business consultant, facilitator, designer, author, and founder of The Happiness Choice

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If you've suspected that happier people have more capacity for creativity, there is now data to support your intuition. When it comes to practical business applications of creativity in innovation, the latest brain research shows the practice of happiness creates a larger possibility space for innovation. Now that we know the core practices of happiness of the happiest people on the planet, we can leverage them as principles to take our creativity and innovation to new levels - with breakthrough business results.

In this whole-brain, highly experiential session, you will learn new ways to unlock and apply your creativity at work based on the core happiness principles and practices. You will learn:

• the latest research on happiness and its significance in the creative process
• 5 core practices to enhance your happiness and unlock your creativity
• how to engage others in practices that incite their creativity
• how to move yourself and others from change-phobic to change-loving

Join us to explore and experience a happiness-centered creative approach to engage your imagination, create new narratives, facilitate innovation, and increase serendipity. Leave with principles and practices you can apply to generating novel solutions, developing better business strategies, creating products and service offerings, and impacting real change in your work and life.

Jack Ricchiuto is a collaboration designer, author, innovator and founder of The Happiness Choice. He teaches leaders and teams how they can creatively organize themselves for success. He is also a leading voice in the positive psychology and strengths-based engagement movements. The focus of his work is change. He weaves together creative process, positive psychology and community building into strategic planning, project management, product development, start-up formation, leading change initiatives and much more. A 10-time author, Jack has been a journalist for business magazines and radio guest expert on his books that include Collaborative Creativity, Accidental Conversations, Project Zen, Appreciative Leadership, Conscious Becoming, and The Stories that Connect Us among others. His newly published book is the The Joy of Thriving. Jack teaches leadership, storytelling, and organization development in universities, including Kent State's EMBA program, and corporations. Clients have included American Greetings, FedEx, DoD, US Cellular, Viacom, Ford, Moen, and the American Red Cross among others.

After the session Jack will be doing a book signing for his new book, The Joy of Thriving. There will be only a limited number of books to purchase on site. We encourage you to purchase your copies beforehand and bring them with you to be autographed. You can purchase a book at http://joyofthriving.com/pages/orders-90260

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