Cyriel Kortleven

Creativity and Innovation

Categories: Business, Change, Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Motivational

Cyriel Kortleven is a sought-after speaker at conferences, events and internal leadership development meetings. His mission in life: delivering an inspiring boost the creative & entrepreneurial mindset of professionals in change. Through his playful and enthusiastic attitude to life, he creates an open and informal atmosphere – ideal for bigger events and conferences. Cyriel stimulates people to break their fixed-thinking patterns and inspires you unleash your full potential.

Cyriel is already working more than 15 years in the domain of creativity and innovation. He delivers keynotes all over the world and is on average around 100 days a year on the ‘road’ (or in a plane) – he presented already in 23 different countries in 5 different continents. He is also author of 4 books. And one of the 750 Certified Professional Speakers (CSP) in the world.

THE CHANGE MINDSET

Survival kit for professionals in change

Every day, we’re confronted with new challenges: global competition; demanding clients; new technologies; … We need professionals who dare to leave
their comfort zone and suspend their judgement. We need professionals who explore the world from a different perspective and can turn problems into opportunities. We need professionals who get into action and who aren’t scared to fail fast, often and forward by experimenting with BaNano actions. Are you one of those professionals?

YES … suspend your judgement to break fixed thinking patterns.
AND … explore the world from a different perspective to generate new ideas. ACT … take small actions because the key to real innovation is doing experiments & fail fast, often & forward.

In this interactive and entertaining presentation, you will get the spark, tools and language to influence others to be more creative & entrepreneurial and give a big boost to your own Change Mindset. Yes And Act … Now.

LESS IS BEAUTIFUL

Discover how ‘less’ can succeed in business.

‘Less is Beautiful’ … We live in a society with an abundance of products and services, connections, technologies, information but a downside is that we almost get paralyzed by the choices and possibilities (burn-out, stress and less and less time for the real important things in life).

There are already several great examples of individual initiatives of people who live with less stuff or who choose to live a simpler life. But, there aren’t a lot of examples of how professionals in organisations and governments can apply ‘Less is Beautiful’ to their daily practice. Get inspired by loads of examples from very different industries and learn how you can apply three simple principles to experience ‘less is more’: start to stop, simplify and letting go.

This presentation gives you insights into the exaggerated search for efficiency, the paradox of choice, and very concrete examples and tools to apply ‘Less is Beautiful’ to your professional lives.

CROSSING BORDERS

What can your organisation learn from other industries & other surprising resources?

Our society faces many major challenges. Many of them are complex,
also called ‘wicked problems’. To solve them, cross-over cooperation between silos and sectors is crucial. Designing these collaborations and finding new solutions needs a new discipline: cross-industry innovation.

During this entertaining and inspiring presentation, you will explore a simple process & concrete tools to ‘translate’ solutions from different industries & other surprising resources to your own business. Cyriel will boost your skills to broaden your perspective and give you tips and tools to use out-of-the-ordinary resources to discover new ideas.

“Cyriel is pro-active, interested, easy to work with and a pleasant person. Cyriel got the highest score of all speakers with a 4,6/5 followed by comments such as “Absolutely brilliant”, “By far the best inspiration and needed session”, “Excellent thinking”,…This says it all and makes my day,
– Michael Nielsen – organiser HRcoreAcademy @ Teneo Meetings

“Cyriel worked with the Belgian Unilever Change Leaders on innovative and creative thinking. He delivered a splendid and energizing keynote presentation and afterwards facilitated a workshop in which we developed new ideas and solutions for some Unilever challenges. A great experience.“
– Sabine Blanchet – Country HR manager @ Unilever

“Cyriel is able to apply enormous amounts of creativity to his sessions. Whether it’s about behaviour, strategy, team-spirit or out-of-the-box-thinking, it’s always worthwhile exchanging thoughts with Cyriel!”
– Peter Lathouwers – Europe Business Intelligence Director @ Nike

“Cyriel’s approach and insights into “how to succeed in business” is fresh and exciting! He teaches with humor down to earth tools that can easily be used by graduates to seasoned business professionals. With less effort, you get better results – a winning formula! South African’s thoroughly enjoyed his unique approach!”
– Julia Cook – director Global Corporate Leadership @ DUKE Corporate University

“We experienced a very inspiring presentation from Cyriel, with humor, down to earth examples, and some practices. Many thanks! highly recommended!”
– Connie van Marrewijk – director commercial @ Amgen

“Cyriel’s keynote was awesome. I received a lot of positive feedback and appreciate the good and professional collaboration with you!”
– Pia Kuss – senior Marketing Manager – Coliquio

“Cyriel’s talks are simple, well-thought and yet “unpredictably” interesting.”
– Alfred Chin – Sales Director Southeast Asia @ AIP Corporation

“Speaker” doesn’t even do him justice. More like Engager, Change maker, ‘get people to really get his point’.
– Jill Hutchison (Australia)

“Cyriel is in a league of his own! His energy, enthusiasm and passion towards delivering an interactive, educational and fun keynote presentation are undeniable, leaving a lasting and memorable impact on attendees.”
– Daniel Merza – speaker @ Different thinking Events

“He holds the audience on the edge of their seats from start to finish.”
– Simon Harvey – organiser Fit for the Future event (New Zealand) – 150 pax

“Cyriel pushes people to get out of their comfort zone.”
– Sophie Cools – Director Sport – Flemish Sportfederation

“Cyriel is a professional speaker who lives his topics rather than just talking about them.”
– David Sand – CEO Uwin Iwin

“Cyriel delivered one of the best conference talks I’ve ever seen.”
– Ben Flavel – co-founder at CheckinLine (Australia)

“The Ladders & Banana session was a highlight of the conference.”
– Melanie Chancellor – Change Management director @ Orchard Supply Hardware

“It’s not every day that you get a large crowd raving about a speaker – in this case, they did.”
– Sam King – Innovation Manager @ AGL Energy

“He spoke to our staff as if he were one of them, familiar with their workplaces. Cyriel strikes a very nice balance of authority and humility.”
– Marcus Gibson – Quality manager @ Fulton Hogan

“Cyriel has jump-started our project management conference with a very creative, entertaining yet also very to-the-point presentation.”
– Peter Coesmans – Project Manager @ IPMA

“With an inspiring dynamic kick-off, the whole audience was ‘YES-AND-ACT’ minded for the rest of the day”.
– Joke Dielisen-Rosier – Organiser HRM in Government (700 pax)

“Feedback from the entire audience was extremely positive ranging from ‘fun’, ‘inspirational’, ‘just the boost I needed at the end of an interesting day.”
– Maarten Laukens – organiser @ CTG Experience Day (400 pax)

“Cyriel has jump-started our project management conference with a very creative, entertaining yet also very to-the-point presentation.”
– Peter Coesmans – organiser International Project Management Association

“Cyriel triggered some 200 BDO colleagues to say “YES AND” to the change they will have to manage in the near future. Through his inspiring and creative presentation, he enthused the audience and put a new perspective on a lot of situations.”
– Marleen Theunis – Head of BDO Academy @ BDO

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