Futurist Mike Walsh sat down with creativity and innovation expert Roy Horan for a very insightful and enriching interview. Mike candidly admits watching (and admiring) Roy‘s martial arts skills in the movies when he was much younger. Roy talks about his many unique life experiences and how his exposure to martial arts and various cultures shaped his views today.
Roy Horan is the founder and CEO of Innovea, a company specializing in high performance and well-being for both business and education sectors. He served as an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design where he focused on creative and higher order thinking as both a teacher and researcher.
Roy is a TEDx speaker, is listed in Who’s Who in the World, and published in the Encyclopedia of Creativity and Creativity Research Journal. Roy is responsible the “Ocean Model” (creativity and intelligence combined with Eastern philosophical concepts), “Creative Momentum Model” (assessment tool for all forms of creative achievement) and the design and development of the School of Design’s MSc in Multimedia and Entertainment Technology and Multimedia Innovation Centre.
Before joining the Multimedia Innovation Centre (1999), Roy spent over twenty years in the creative industries (particularly the motion picture industry) producing and globally distributing both Hong Kong and international commercial films, television series and video products. Roy, a trained martial artist, has worked on many action features and has appeared in both Jacky Chan and Bruce Lee films.
Some of the innovative mindfulness programs that Roy offers are “Smile”, “StressQuest” and “Aha! Technique”. For enhancing businesses creativity and innovation, Roy created the online instrument “Integral Psychological Profile” (used by Fortune 500 companies) and the program “The Creative Leap” . Roy has also designed programs for education systems such as “iMind”and the course “Mindful Teaching”
Roy’s speaking topics include:
- Mindfulness and decision-making
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Creativity & innovation
- Empathy
- Emotion regulation
- Various types of meditation, self-enquiry and metacognition etc.
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a global consultancy on designing business for the 21st century. His expertise is giving leaders advise on how to thrive in this era of disruptive technological change. Mikes travels the world over 300 days a year, interviewing innovators, entrepreneurs and corporate revolutionaries to give his clients and audiences the freshest and best vision of tomorrow’s opportunities.Using the anthropological approach, Mike is able to translate changes in human behavior and emerging technologies into pragmatic plans that can transform businesses of today.
Mike has delivered close to a thousand keynote speeches to companies in almost every industry around the globe. In 2014, Mike was invited to be a main stage keynote speaker at the renowed Million Dollar Round Table where his customized presentation reached more than 8,000 people.
Aside from being a favored speaker to several global Fortune 500 companies, Mike is also a prolific writer. His international publications include articles in BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of the best-selling book FUTURETAINMENT (published by Phaidon and winner of the design award by the Art Director’s Club in New York) and The Dictionary of Dangerous Ideas.
Mike was the founder of Jupiter Research (Australia), was a senior strategist at News Corporation (Asia Pacific Region). He is currently a board member and strategic investor in the North Alliance, Scandinavia’s leading digital marketing group.
Contact us if you are interested in engaging Mike Walsh or Roy Horan to speak at your upcoming conference.