Musical Metaphors
to Spark Innovation
Compose Your World
Why do some people just play notes they are handed while others write new music in the world? Stanford University innovation expert + composer Kai Kight spent over a decade dissecting this one question and uncovered a series of hidden emotional forces blocking innovation across all sectors. In his thought-provoking, musically inspired presentation, Kai designs custom insights on innovation for your audience that center around the six themes below:
1 |Vision
To compose is to hear new possibilities, yet these dreams must align with the workings of the instruments available. Kai helps professionals to not just dream bigger, but to select innovative paths that are in alignment with their individual and organizational resources.
3 | Learning
To compose is to rapidly revise and upgrade our thinking as we transform the first draft into the final version. Kai helps professionals to embrace opportunities for growth and efficiently convert their shortcomings and mistakes into pathways for innovation.
5 | Change
To compose is to revise, to enter a period of adaptation where we let go of predictable, past ways of thinking. Kai helps professionals gain 2% more comfort with detaching from previous concepts, practices of technologies that no longer serve them.
2 | Teamwork
To compose is to take instruments of different shapes and repurpose them in harmony towards a new, shared goal. Kai helps professionals harness the unique skillsets within themselves and others so they can best leverage their existing resources in times of change.
4 | Leadership
To compose is to convert uncertainty and chaos into a concise path for others to follow behind. Kai helps leaders develop and utilize their instinctual wisdom, translate new ideas, and guide others forward during times when there is no set path to follow behind.
6 | Impact
To compose is to be aware of the many micro decisions that create a profound effect on an external audience. Kai helps professionals to innovate with purpose and reconnect to the human experience of stakeholders on the other side of their work.
