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How To Beat Boxed-In Thinking

Cannes Lions 2018

I’m so excited to be involved with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity for the 4th year as part of their training faculty over the week of the festival. This year I’m working as a creative coach and mentor to support the next generation of talent across a broad spectrum of the creative industries and […]

How to develop creative teams

Free creativity stimulus – using trends

Free chapter In Your Creative Element

How to master the 10 minute pitch

Last year we had a truly international cohort for the third year of the Masters of Creativity programme at the Cannes Lions School. Our delegates came from 12 different countries, representing both in-house brands including Microsoft and Red Bull, and a wide variety of business roles in agencies including digital strategists, art directors, business development […]

Every day’s a school day at Cannes…by Anahita Milligan

When you’re working at the Cannes Lions School you have to see all these great speakers – cherry picked from the schedule – come into our classroom and present daily. I know, tough gig right? Then there are all these other amazing things going on over and above the school that you can dip into […]

Creativity tool focus: identity theft

Creativity tool: Identity Theft Overview: Brainstorming participants take on another identity in order to see the problem point of view. This technique requires little warm up and has many possible variations. How it works:  Isolate the challenge or subject you want to think about Introduce your panel of advisors, (dead or alive, fantasy or real) […]

What does creative freedom mean to you?

In my book In Your Creative Element, I quote IDEO’s Tom Kelley who says that creative groups are at their best when they are free to experiment with new ideas. “Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive,” he says. “In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive – and autonomy can be the […]