Jesko von den Steinen

Creativity, Collaboration and Cirque du Soleil

Categories: Asia, Business, Change, Creativity, Diversity, Entertainment, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Motivational, Performance

Jesko von den Steinen is the lead facilitator with PwC for “The Difference” in Hong Kong, a complex problem solutions space.

His focus is on organisational innovation, Digital transformations, leadership development, facilitating and designing complex problem-solving through an applied organisational complexity framework. Jesko is a practitioner of the MG Taylor Methodology.

Jesko is a speaker, actor, performer, choreographer, filmmaker, designer, and formerly a principal solo artist with Cirque du Soleil, and at “The House Of Dancing Water,” the world’s largest water-based show created by the Franco Dragone Entertainment Group held at the City of Dreams in Macau.

Jesko is a Professionally Certified Facilitator (IAF), a Professional Certified Coach (PCC – ICF), a facilitator of LEGO® Serious Play® methodologies, Trainer of Applied Complexity Science in Organizations with the Cynefin framework and Cognitive Edge, IDEO & IBM enterprise Design Thinking certifications, as well as Agile Project Management.

Recently he worked as an Associate Director of Strategic HR with a Fortune 500 company in Asia.

Previously, he has worked as a creative strategist, an experiential designer with advertising luminaries SIDLEE & C2 MTL.

He currently volunteers with TEDx Wanchai in Hong Kong, where he’s the director of speaker coaching and presentation literacy.

He works privately with executives in Hong Kong and Macau on organisational coaching and presentation literacy.

In addition, Jesko works with Strategyzer as an Innovation Coach helping organizations build skills and execution methodologies to de-risk and develop their innovation pipelines.

He uses these skills to work on Strategic initiatives that focus on Human-Centred Design and Innovation.

Jesko is a frequently requested speaker and thought leader by providing clear pathways for integrating principles of the performing arts into Business. He has spoken at TEDx, Inno Design Tech Expo, AdAsia, AdFest, the Summit Series, INK Talks Asia & India, and for corporate clients including Google APAC, Nike, FOX Media Asia, Thomson Reuters, Hong Kong Jockey Club, National Economic Forum Malaysia, Experian, FWD Insurance and HSBC.

Cirque Creativity Collaboration Communication all for Innovation Key principles

1. Have structure in your intuition, Be intuitive with your structure
2. Dr Bruce Banner and The Incredible Hulk
3. Play and Playfulness
4. Question your Paradigm
5. Parallel Thinking
6. Intentional Inhibition
7. Make it Personal — Boring and being Bored
8. An idea is nothing without vision

Key Takeaways

• Creativity is not a mystery… it is a mindset of conscious playfulness.
• Collaboration: playful focus on the other, is an essential tool for effective collaboration.
• Stay Curious: Continue to develop your knowledge and your experiences.
• Authentic Creativity: comes when you listen both internally and externally.
• Always be ready to “Fail Wisely” for innovation.
• Ideation occurs when you are able to laugh and play.

Dancing with Water – The Creative Ripple

4 Principles from the performing arts that can be used to develop creativity, collaboration, innovation in business and organizational environments.

A behind the scenes look at the creative process of the world’s most technically advanced and successful live performance show, “The House of Dancing Water”.

As a TEDx Curator, I have had the pleasure of working with a extensive range of speakers and thought leaders who are challenging the conventional paradigm of how we envision the future and create change.

Re-inventing yourself mid-career

What do a clown-acrobat from the Cirque du Soleil, an advertising strategist, and a Human Resources executive all have in common? They are all the same person.

With the fast-changing work environment and contexts of work, the skills and competencies that satisfied say 10 years ago, are quickly becoming less relevant today. A longitudinal study from the bureau of Labor statistics has concluded that on average, people will have 11.7 different kinds of jobs throughout their career. So, what to do?

Jesko has gone from being a clown on stage with Cirque du Soleil to advertising creative and HR strategist of Organisational Development for a Fortune 500 company. The path to there was not about “giving up” on my past, rather it has been about figuring how I could transpose and integrate my past experiences with my current context. This includes learning the hard way through embarrassment, and being told no. But if the vision is clear… we find ways to adapt.

Told through a personalised story, you will receive clear, actionable, takeaways and principles. You will hear how to determine, recognize and understand your “Core Career Competencies”. You will learn how to recognize the conditions when to effectively augment and implement these competencies. This is not an “easy” solution. But with a mindset of curiosity, intellectual engagement, and grit a successful mid-career transition and personal re-invention is certainly there for the taking.

Jesko gives an enlightened, entertaining, and entirely unique experience. He is an extremely dynamic storyteller that lives and breathes what creativity should be…
~ Summit Series, Utah

Jesko is a creative tour de force who has worked with the some of the world’s most renowned stage and theater directors yet who has the unique ability to translate the lessons around innovation, teamwork, and trust to any organizational or business transformation context. I could not recommend him more highly.”
~ Vincent Ng, Curator TEDxWanChai, Hong Kong

Jesko von den Steinen

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