Gold Leaf Designs - designing your optimal future - the small changes that make a big difference

The same thing seen from different viewpoints can appear quite different...

"The shadow cast by an object depends upon the direction from which it is illuminated."

Adrian West Innovation Culture Architect

“Adrian has all-round enthusiasm and prodigious intellectual capability. We know him as the personal development guru whose attention to detail, fanatical interest in ideas and their development make him a wonderful facilitator”. University of Liverpool Graduate School

“Co-ordination and delivery of a complex innovative programme of activities that have added considerable value, assisting us in attaining 13% new product development throughout this year. ...entertaining, enjoyable and understandable.... a new way to achieve positive change in the way we manage mature markets.’ John Hannah
Business Manager / Group Managing Director, Vita Liquid Polymers

"82% of businesses ... now more likely to experiment with new products and services 6 months after the events ...suggest the improved agility... has been durable...One business reported additional turnover impact of £80,000 already achieved and predicts a total of £500,000 over the next two years". Independent auditors report on "Innovate with Confidence" impact

INNOVATION CULTURE

“What would you say really works...when it comes to helping your people engage, be proactive, and enjoy unlocking their natural boundless creativity?”

Who we are

Adrian WestWe are innovation champions, with an infectious skill that helps people achieve remarkable effectiveness together. Adrian West co-founded the Advanced Interfaces Research Group in Computer Science at the University of Manchester, leading computer science and psychology contributions to international research projects. Adrian has held commercial positions in Space and Defence, and led a team of engineers at a U.S. venture capital technology company. He was Research Director for The Edward de Bono Foundation UK, assisting Dr. de Bono at the House of Lords workshop on Governance. He has inspired over 200 cross-function innovation teams.

Why it matters


Graph showing change in company innovation performance
  • What problems keep you awake?
  • How are you going to find ways to address them?
  • How will you inspire your teams to rise to the task and relish working together on the challenges you give them?
  • What would it mean if your people were even 5% more innovative and engaged tomorrow?

Success depends on you finding ways for your people to create the new value your company requires. We can help you design your optimal future.

What we do

We enskill individuals, teams and businesses to make step-changes in their innovation capability... and sustain it.

We work with a full spectrum of tools that excite people to become systematically creative, skilled collaborators, who enjoy being proactively self-organised and designing their future.

We help them to create their own habits to sustain that unlocked constructive creativity.

Innovation Workshop

Get in touch

To find out more get in touch:
Email: sophie@goldleafdesigns.co.uk
Telephone: 07968 469531

"Boost Your Brain to Grow Your Business" Workshops in Corridor Manchester on themes from the Innovate with Confidence Toolbox which took place during Spring 2011.

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