Meet
Chris Griffiths
Keynote speaker and best selling author on finding focus, innovation, and creativity.
Keynote speaker and best selling author on finding focus, innovation, and creativity.
Chris is the founder of OpenGenius, a company helping transform thinking, creativity and learning. His technology solutions have been used by millions of individuals. He is a best-selling author published in over 20 languages. He is regularly asked to be a keynote speaker on innovation, decision making and problem solving.
Find out why the senior leadership teams of the European Commission, Pfizer, State Bank of India, Stanford University and many other organisations across the globe, have invited Chris Griffiths to kickstart their creativity, systemise their innovation, and restore their resilience.
Chris has helped Nobel laureates, Governments, Royal Families, CEOs and 1000’s more. Get him and his team involved in your next event.
Chris has always been passionate about using technology to drive creativity and productivity. His apps iMindMap, Droptask, and now Ayoa have empowered millions worldwide to unlock their creative potential. Chris has liberated learners and professionals from linear thought, facilitating without-the-box thinking. Ayoa takes a human centric and brain friendly approach. Get started at Ayoa.com.
Chris regularly contributes articles to a number of major publications. These articles span topics as varied and important as the future of work, rebooting a creative mindset, being positive in work and many, many more. Recent articles and comments have appeared in GQ, The Telegraph, Director Magazine, Minute Hack and Chris regularly contributes to Forbes.com. As a world leader in the innovation field, Chris regularly takes part in interviews on TV, the radio and podcasts. This includes several appearances on BBC News.
A selection of outlets Chris has been featured in:
See Chris on the
TEDx Cardiff stage
Chris discussing well-being in the workplace on BBC News
Chris speaks about daydreaming on Heart Radio
Can Creativity be taught? – Chris on BBC World News
Chris also donates his time to ‘not for profit’ initiatives, helping even the brightest of minds to drive innovation to change the world for the better. This includes facilitating brainstorming sessions at The Petra Nobel Conference, held in Jordan, where over 40 Nobel Laureates gathered to discuss strategies to end child hunger and poverty.
Chris and his wife Gaile have also established the Inspire Genius Foundation, a registered charity that supports entrepreneurship for neurodivergent individuals under the age of 25. Find out more
Chris with the Dalai Lama at the Petra Nobel Conference
Chris’ past events as a guest speaker and consultant have included:
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Engagement
Chris delivered a series of events on innovation for over 200 staff members of all levels, for AXA Wealth, in a bid to get staff thinking differently and boost innovation within the organisation. Feedback from the attendees was summarised by AXA Wealth into the wordle shown here . . .
Jan Mühlfeit, Executive coach/mentor, former chairman of Microsoft Europe, author of The Positive Leader
Tim Hurson Author of 'Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking'
Bob Urichuck Author
Mike Palmer Logistics SME, Boeing
Dominic McKenny Director of IT, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Peter Estlin Former Lord Mayor of the City of London
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