‘Has anyone had any good ideas recently?’
If the audience are struggling to raise their hands, they have come to the right place.

Albert’s talk is an uplifting journey through the possibilities of the human mind and the tricks you can pick up from others, if you know where to look.

Key questions he explores include:

• What consistent but surprising trait can you find in Nobel Prize winners in science?
• What’s different about the way Bill Gates reads books?
• What thought process connects Uber with the hit musical Hamilton?

Practical tips for combining technology and human creativity at work:

• Where does AI go from being your strongest research assistant to diminishing your own potential by allowing you to ‘cognitively offload?’
• What are the four stages of creativity and how do you incorporate them into the modern office
• What are the modern tools and techniques that allow for deep work?

Broader questions addressed in the talk:

Why is the imagination so fundamental to a flourishing career?

• How do you instil it in the culture around you
• Which companies have done so successfully
• How do you create an expectation of ideas from your teams?
• How do you give junior employees the confidence to share their ideas?
• How do you keep the drumbeat of innovation alive in your company?

Albert applies lessons from the arts, science and entrepreneurship to the business world. He addresses the very real and pressing questions that leaders face around growth and the need for innovation. He shows how, in the age of AI, human creativity is more important than ever; but it needs to reassert its vitality and, if it is to thrive, adapt to the new tools at its disposal.

Albert’s research into the imagination, from his book The Imagination Muscle, illuminates a talk which is both wise, inspirational and of the moment. It touches on his time running Condé Nast and presents concrete ideas from what he learned about building a confident, zeitgeist-setting, idea-generating culture within an organisation.