Speaker Profile
Chris Meredith
With over 20 years C-suite and training experience, Chris Meredith is on a mission to help people create capture and communicate new ideas. He wears lots of hats such as consultant, trainer, coach, facilitator and keynote speaker. An MBA and CPM, he has also been the Marketing Director of an international drinks company. It means he has seen at first hand the way ideas, stories and energy can get strangled by complex processes, red tape and calcified company culture. In a nod to the need for many organisations to add more spice to their thinking, his business is called Chilli Sauce. It provides training and coaching in topics such as Story Telling, Facilitation for Leaders, Creativity at Work, How to Present On-line and Personal Feedback. The business works with many of the worlds leading companies such as ANZ Bank, Mastercard, Haleon (formerly GSK), Arnotts, L'Oréal, BAE Systems, Defence Australia, Chartered Accountants ANZ and the Australian Institute of Marketing. With over 100 episodes published, Chris also co-hosts a weekly podcast called “The Common Creative” which aims to lift the lid on creativity at work. . https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-common-creative/id1525162918 His youtube channel “The Vault” contains over 50 short clips with handy tips on creativity, communication and facilitation at work.
Chris Meredith
January 20 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Creativity at Work
In business, staff are rewarded for critical thinking, careful evaluation, and risk management. Typically, new ideas are subjected to rigorous scrutiny, legal checks, market evaluation and so-on (and so on).And that’s great for ideas that have been built into sound business propositions.The trouble is that new ideas don't arrive as sound business propositions. They pop up while taking a shower or during a j..