Level Up Your CAB: Avoiding These 5 Common Pitfalls for Powerful Insights

Client Advisory Boards (CABs) offer a goldmine of insights, providing a direct line to your customers’ needs, challenges, and aspirations. When done right, they can fuel innovation, strengthen relationships, and validate your strategic direction. However, many companies unknowingly stumble into common pitfalls that limit the effectiveness of their CABs, turning potential breakthroughs into lukewarm discussions. …

Unlocking Abundance: Avoiding the Top 5 Pitfalls Stifling Innovation Cultures

In a previous post we examined the opportunities in developing an abundancy mindset. If any of these pitfalls feel familiar to you, we invite you to our Table for an open discussion on moving past these. How Strategy Table Helps Clients Cultivate Thriving Innovation Cultures: Ready to break free from limiting beliefs and cultivate a …

Unlocking Abundance: The Power of Coaching in Cultivating an Innovation Culture

An innovation culture isn’t built on a single brainstorming session; it’s a living ecosystem where fresh ideas flourish and bold possibilities are explored without constraint. However, even the most well-intentioned internal teams can inadvertently stifle the very creativity they seek. Phrases like “that’s not how we do things here” or “we already tried that” can …

Tahira Endean is holding her book Our KPI is Joy

Meetings Innovator: Tahira Endean

Guest Blog Post from Barbara Scofidio SKIFT Meeting March 28th, 2025 IMEX Head of Programming Tahira Endean lives and breathes creativity. So it makes perfect sense that she would dream up the idea of categorizing ‘joy’ as a KPI — and then write an entire book about it. Tahira Endean was effusive as she shared …

Business Built on Trust

Excerpt from Intentional Event Design, A Professional Opportunity (2017) Create from Trust “To use an event to deliver on objectives in a purposeful and innovative manner starts with true creative ideas rooted in collaboration, trust, an understanding of culture and appetite for experience creation. When we hire interior designers or architects, we look at a portfolio …

Board Games in the Board Room

Taken from guest blog with Rising Solutions Are you “game” to try something new in your business meetings? For the young at heart, living in the professional world can reduce you to a shell of your playful, cheeky, smiling self. Workplace etiquette, the bottom line, and burnout can make workers feel more like a machine …

Harness Behavioural Economics for Transformative Experiences

Event professionals are uniquely positioned to craft experiences leading to transformative moments for individuals and organisations. By learning and adopting behavioural economics methodologies, they can create events that entertain, engage and drive positive outcomes for businesses and the wider world. Understanding Transformative Experiences Transformative experiences are profound moments that can lead to significant personal or …

Intentional Improvement Cultures

How events and event professionals can lead change “Our entire world is moving at breakneck speed!” – anyone paying attention. It feels like we are constantly experiencing ecological, political, social, and, most apparent, economic changes. All these impact business strategy and are felt strongly by those in business events in particular. Integrating Design Thinking and …

The Art of Discussing Innovation

It’s All About Knowing the Audience Innovation is the lifeblood of any thriving business. But it’s not just about having brilliant ideas. It’s about how we communicate these ideas and, crucially, with whom we communicate. Let’s be honest. How you discuss innovation with your company’s leadership should differ from how you converse with the team …

Beautiful Questions Clarify Purpose

Excerpt from Intentional Event Design, Our Professional Opportunity The Importance of Questions “This cannot be overstated. Great design requires great understanding. This requires moving past assumptions and working from a place of true knowledge. Don’t just ask the obvious questions – demographic and psychographic information as examples of this. Ask “beautiful questions” – those with …