Celia Gates

Global Innovator & Fresh Thinking Facilitator

Celia Gates; the Whether Woman, is an energizing and inspirational consultant, speaker and transformational trainer of innovation, entrepreneurship and constructive group culture.  She is the founder of the Global Brainstorm and the creator of a compelling way to think outside the box – the Whether System™.

Award winning designer, inventor and author, Celia Gates is creating innovative advances and constructive changes by disrupting traditional thinking.  Her clear communication and fresh thinking tools add to mindsets, boost performance and benefit mental wellbeing.  Reports from past Global Brainstorms appear as accurate projections; Whether Forecasts, of what then occurs. Called the biggest upgrade to systemic thinking since the Ancient Greeksby the Athens and Macedonian Press agency, these live group interactions deliver interesting results.

Celia will tailor her talk.

If your event is focused on a specific subject or you’re facing a group challenge, Celia can facilitate fresh thinking or host a group brainstorm leaving you with added insight and a map of the group mind – an excellent after-event Social Media share.

Openly relating entrepreneurial adventures.

Celia’s story sees her ski through a male-dominated Industrial Design degree, build business acumen abroad before bringing designs for ergonomic cookware back to the UK to be awarded British Consumer Invention of the year.  Developing ‘Doctor Cook’ led to the penning of her success being published as part of the Financial Times series under the title ‘From Brainwave to Business’ – shortlisted by the CMI for Innovation and Entrepreneurship book of the year.  Her latest book ‘Energizing Fresh Thinking’guides readers through some of her critical and creative thinking methods, including the Whether System™.  Copies can be made available to your audience, if appropriate.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Animating success strategies and importantly, sharing short-fallings; the pitfalls to avoid, Celia draws examples from her own experiences whilst delivering your objectives to energize and inspire an audience.

• The Whether System™ energizing fresh thinking for smart decision making.
• Success Cycles, Happiness Wheels and the power of your imagination.
• Innovative leadership; creating constructive cultures and climates.
• The 5-step MINDS method to constructive cultural evolution.
• Getting confident with the unknown, knowing how to navigate.
• Innovation Generation – bringing ideas to market.
• Women in Business – the brutal bits and how to be ‘in your energy’ anyway.
• Think & Grow – a transformative workshop.