"It was like a light bulb going on. Now I understand the creative process"

Managing Director : Financial services

public events diary

• For public talks and workshops on How to get your ideas adopted (and change the world), click here

selected completed workshops

• Driving Innovation*.  A one day workshop for senior managers in the NHS. . Please contact us to request a booking form.
• The Challenge of Ideas: generating them, and getting them adopted. CETC 31st July 6:30-8:45 St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge. For further information, or to book click here
• Creative Workshop, How to get your ideas adopted. Arts and Business East.14 March 2008. 10-16:00. Cambridge £50 for Arts organisations, £80 for business professionals. Click here for more information. To book a place contact Alison Bigglestone 01223 321421.
• The Myth of the Mousetrap, Cambridge Rotary, 18th February 2008
• Workshop*. Blocks, resistance and creative solutions on climate change, Cambridge, 17 January, 2008
• Embedding Innovation*. 1 day seminar for SMEs at Ashcroft Business School, Chelmsford,  19 December 2007
• Graduation address, Meath Partnership, County Meath, Ireland. 14th Dec 2007
• The Unseen Wave. The challenge of fostering, spotting and selling innovation Key note address for Enterprise Ireland, Dublin, 13th Dec 2007 www.biotechnologyireland.com/nextwave2007  
• Seminar*. The Myth of the Mousetrap. Cambridge Science Park, 21 November 2007
• Seminar*. The Myth of the Mousetrap. Melbourn Science Park, 16 November 2007
• My Big Idea Competition. An Invention competition for 8-11 year olds in Cambridge area Primary Schools, in association with La Playa insurance and Cambridge Evening News. Prize: £1000 for the winner's school, £50 in book tokens plus a mentoring session for the inventor from Anne Miller. Contact us to register interest for 2008.
• Book Launch The Myth of the Mousetrap: how to get your ideas adopted and change the world, by Anne Miller. Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge.  29 October 2007. The event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE and can be obtained by contacting Terrie Rogers on email terrie.rogers@heffers.co.uk or 01223 568521. Click here for more information on the book.
• Defining the dream, expressing the vision. Live the dream enterprise conference.  Cambridge, 3 July 2007
• Unfreezing in the face of climate change , 15th-17th June 2007, Falkland, Fife. "Managing risk and entrepreneurship in the transition to a low carbon future" Part of the "Mind your Business" session at the BigTent Festival of Stewardship.  click here for further information.
• Destination Innovation. 8th February 2007 Welwyn Garden City. A one day event for businesses in the East of England who wish to boost their performance through innovation.  Anne Miller is a key note speaker, addressing the topic of commercialising ideas and how to stop good ideas being ignored. For further information clic here
• My Big Idea! Competition. An Invention competition for 8-11 year olds in Cambridge Primary Schools. Prize: £1000 for the school from La Playa plus mentoring session for the inventors from The Creativity Partnership. Closing date 20 October 2006. Winner announced shortly. Contact us to register interest for 2007.
• Individual, organisational and cultural influences on innovation, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, Annually in October.
• Creativity Workshop. June 2006. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. An introduction to the principles of creativity and an opportunity to try our popular tool : The Creativity Bulls-eye.  This tool is a powerful way of encouraging creative, challenging and supportive group working.
• Innovation and Leadership. Synapse 2 Dinner*, Kentwell Hall, Suffolk . EEDA. This masterclass for business leaders shared the results of a survey and case studies on how different leadership styles deliver innovation. March 2005. Click here for a copy of the report.

• Driving Innovation*, a one day workshop for senior managers within the NHS, Grantham, March 2005

• Creativity and Idea Generation, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, Annually in February
• The Associate Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation, House of Commons, London, December 2004
• Innovation workshop* on integrated health and social care, Durham, November 2004. Click here for an article by Andrew Young, Chief Executive of Durham and Chester-le-Street PCT on the workshop.
• Driving Innovation*: a one day workshop for senior managers within the NHS, Cambridge, November 2004
• Workshop: Creative journeys, creating change. Part of the Rethinking Globalization international honors programme, Boston University, October 2004
• Creativity in Business, panel discussion at The Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge, September 2004
• Driving Innovation*, a one day workshop for senior managers in the NHS,  Cambridge, September 2004
• Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Awards, Cambridge, September 2004
• Creativity in professional services*. London Insight Seminar, Ernst and Young, London, March 2004
• Building the Entrepreneurial Team. School teachers' innovation and entrepreneurship programme, London, February 2004
• Creating and Exploiting Intellectual Property, University of Cambridge, January 2004
• ESTIEM Conference Building Creativity into Business, Cambridge, January 2004
• Creative workshop on biomass heat, Cambridge, January 2004
• Creative Leadership and Behaviour, UMIST, Manchester, September 2003
• Innovation - From Motivation to Implementation. The Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors, June 2003
• Creative Careers in Engineering, Royal Institution, June 2003
• Innovation at the Fuzzy Front End, Shell, May 2003
• Creative Leadership, Bayer USA, May 2003
• Creativity in the Innovation Process, UMIST, April 2003
• Creativity at Work, CULIL seminar, Cambridge, April 2003*
• Creativity and Organisational Culture, New Media conference, Oxford Brookes University, March 2003.
• Leading and Developing Creativity, Judge Institute of Management Studies, February 2003.
• Creativity in Technology Companies, Cambridge University, January 2003
• Create: the Marketing Director's forum, Driving the Product Pipeline, London, January 2003.
• Creating and Exploiting Intellectual Property, Cambridge University, January 2003
• Engineering Technology Board, Creativity and Technology, Institute of Physics, October 2002
• Royal Academy of Engineering's Engineering Leadership Awards, Cambridge, September 2002
• Technology Acquisition and Commercialisation, UMIST, Manchester, June 2002
• Issues in Early Stage IP Management, York, June 2002
• Innovation and Technology Planning, UMIST, Manchester, May 2002
• Leading Creativity: An Engineer's Tale, The Tavistock Centre, London, March 2002
• Creating and Using Intellectual Property, Cambridge University, January 2002
• Creating Business Through Project Management, Royal Society of Chemistry, November 2001
• Integrative Leadership Forum, Hever Castle, October 2001
• Private creativity workshop for a international scientific and medical organisation, October 2001
• Royal Academy of Engineering's Engineering Leadership Awards, September 2001
• Innovation Exchange Workshop: Collaborative Innovation, London Business School, May 2001*
• Creativity, Mind & Brain, Institute of Psychiatry, March 2001*
• Innovation Management in High Tech Europe, Marcus Evans, Amsterdam, March 2001
• Collaborative Innovation seminar, CBI, February 2001*
• The Search for the New, inaugural event of Sainsbury's Innovation & Creativity Network, September 2000
• Cambridgeshire Education Authority
• Delta Kappa Gamma Society International AGM, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
• EPICC R&D Management Focus Group
• EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Co-operation, Tokyo
• Hatfield University
• Manchester Business School