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Diolch yn fawr iawn

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

After 3 weeks on the road (and canal) it’s time to catch up and what I have been doing in recent weeks A very big thank you must go to all the people who made my tour of Welsh (June 28th-July3rd) such a success. An outstanding hero was Nia Lynn Jones at Momentwm public relations [...]

Solo week-long tour of Wales promotes green shoots

Monday, June 15th, 2009


Some of Wales’ leading names – including the DVLA, Admiral Insurance, universities and local authorities – are playing host to a one man effort to travel across the Principality in one week to banish recession blues and inspire people to become green shoots for an economic upturn.

World-leading creativity expert Andy Green will be doing a one week-long tour of Wales at the end of June (June 29th to July 3rd) where he will be giving inspirational talks to help people be more resourceful, spot opportunities, and harness what he calls ‘Golden Swan’ opportunities in the recession.

Six degrees of separation, minus 80-95 per cent

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I am a great proponent of networking, viral, social media, and word of mouth communications, in spreading a message and for creating change in the world. I was fascinated to read over the weekend (FT magazine June 13) about how social scientists sought to recreate the legendary study by the psychologist Stanley Milgram. In 1967 [...]

Huddersfield Town FC appoint creativity coach

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Huddersfield Town FC has become the first football club to appoint its own creativity expert to help generate new ideas as part of its recently launched development strategy. The post, which aims to be self-funding through savings and new activities, will see the Club linking up with creativity organization the Flexible Thinking Forum, headed up [...]

Reflections on visit to Darwin’s ‘Big Idea’

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Just thinking back to the time I went to the ‘Darwin’s Big Idea’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum given my interest in memes and evolutionary theory, how ideas are generated and popularised, and to explore an idea of how Darwinian theory can be applied to the task and challenges inherent in communications practised. The [...]