MindShift Innovation Builds the Leadership Capacity for Business Innovation: Tackles Marketplace Volatility and Complexity

Pleasant Hill, CA, March 7, 2011: MindShift Innovation helps executives and organizations confront two pervasive business challenges – the volatility and complexity of the marketplace. MindShift Innovation enables individuals to shift from an execution mindset to an implicit learning and collective intelligence mindset to turn the challenges of externally imposed change into new possibilities. MindShift Innovation builds the leadership and organizational capacity to see and seize the new possibilities.

Recent research by IBM identifies adapting to rapid change as a critical leadership gap. Economist Intelligence Unit research identifies improved employee engagement as a key ingredient to thriving.

Managing Partner, John I. Todor, Ph.D. states, We immerse executives in a process that tackles two critical issues: envisioning new possibilities for creating and delivering value to customers and fostering employee engagement in the innovation and alignment of business practices to deliver on the new possibilities.

MindShift Innovation gets beyond coping by turning the challenges of change into new possibilities to create value. Executives confront new and emerging business imperatives and co-develop an adaptive organizational framework that will lead to competitive differentiation and strategic advantage. The ensuing model dramatically increases an organization’s adaptive potential and relevance to customers by:

• Putting an outside-in, customer-centric model into action
• Innovating and aligning business practice
• Stimulating employee engagement
• Facilitating collaboration and collective intelligence
• Enhancing implicit learning.

As part of the process, executives become versed in the use of social computing tools to enhance their own adaptive potential.

John I. Todor, Ph.D., managing partner of MindShift Innovation brings together expertise in psychology, disruptive innovation, business strategies and customer engagement. Senior partner, William D. Todor, Ph.D. adds expertise in organizational development, human resources and employee engagements. Both partners have extensive experience in executive mentoring.

The partners are available for keynote presentations, webinars, and executive briefings (Speaking Overview). Their programs are custom designed to maximize leadership development and customer and market development (www.MindShifti.com). See our video (2:50m): Get Beyond Coping – Adapt and Thrive!

MindShift Innovation is an initiative of The Whetstone Edge, LLC

Keywords: leadership development, executive mentoring, innovation, disruptive change, mindshift, possibility thinking, design thinking, employee engagement, adaptive business models, IBM, Economist Intelligence Unit