© 2020 Ransom Stephens
One Sheet
Title:
The Keys to Innovation:
Priming your brain to percolate brilliant ideas
Speaker:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D.
“Ransom’s ability to captivate audiences while
explaining complex ideas is an art form.”
- Kim Heine, Beyond the Box Presentations.
Description:
The route from problem to solution is a swirling path with Aha! moments lighting the way. In this
presentation, we examine the neural processes that percolate insights into consciousness: the physics
of lateral thought, the power of perspective, the value of novelty, and how your brain selects and rejects
ideas before you’re even aware of them. Then we turn to methods that can prime our brains to solve
the challenges that we face as individuals as well as those that we face together.
This presentation helps participants understand:
•
The truth about creativity and analysis in the left and right hemispheres of your brain
o
Your stupid, bottom-up, parallel, unconscious processors
o
Your brilliant, top-down, serial, conscious thinkers
•
Education, training, and answer resolution
o
Your brain as you practice and the transition from learning to knowing
o
Intellect and emotion
o
Neural pruning
o
Innovation and problem solving
•
Contemplation and distraction
o
Confidence, defocus, and insight
o
Lateral thought in humor, science, and art
o
Using the tools of natural selection
•
Priming innovation in individuals and teams
o
Innovation-crippling business practices
o
Optimizing youthink and groupthink
•
The neuroaesthetics of what makes discoveries, creations, and products good, bad, and valuable
o
The relationship between the creator and the beholder
“Ransom Stephens is that teacher. The one who makes you wish you’d
never left school.”
-Andy Martwick, Intel
Details:
A 35 or 50 minute presentation for professionals. Presentation is best with an HDMI compatible
overhead projector, but it’s not required. Each speech is customized to address the specific needs of the
audience. Past speeches have been delivered to audiences at colleges, cafes, museums, community
centers, bars, book stores, and even atop a mountain!
About the instructor:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a scientist and technologist. As a research scientist he collaborated on major
discoveries at international labs before joining the private sector. He has worked in high tech research,
development, and marketing. He’s written hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from neuroscience
to quantum physics to parenting teenagers and several novels. This speech emerged from his book, The
Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs (Viva Editions), an edgy, somewhat irreverent, accurate look at
the neuroscience innovation in art and science. Ransom has given thousands of speeches across the US,
Europe, and Asia and has developed a reputation for making complex topics accessible and funny.
Videos and
booking info
Watch videos of Ransom speaking to a variety of groups: Everything you need to know to book Ransom to speak plus speaker bio, photos, testimonials, past clients, philosophy, etc.
© 2020 Ransom Stephens
One Sheet
Title:
The Keys to Innovation:
Priming your brain to percolate
brilliant ideas
Speaker:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D.
“Ransom’s ability to captivate audiences while
explaining complex ideas is an art form.”
- Kim Heine, Beyond the Box Presentations.
Description:
The route from problem to solution is a
swirling path with Aha! moments lighting
the way. In this presentation, we examine
the neural processes that percolate insights into consciousness: the physics
of lateral thought, the power of perspective, the value of novelty, and how
your brain selects and rejects ideas before you’re even aware of them. Then
we turn to methods that can prime our brains to solve the challenges that we
face as individuals as well as those that we face together.
This presentation helps participants understand:
•
The truth about creativity and analysis in the left and right hemispheres
of your brain
o
Your stupid, bottom-up, parallel, unconscious processors
o
Your brilliant, top-down, serial, conscious thinkers
•
Education, training, and answer resolution
o
Your brain as you practice and the transition from learning to
knowing
o
Intellect and emotion
o
Neural pruning
o
Innovation and problem solving
•
Contemplation and distraction
o
Confidence, defocus, and insight
o
Lateral thought in humor, science, and art
o
Using the tools of natural selection
•
Priming innovation in individuals and teams
o
Innovation-crippling business practices
o
Optimizing youthink and groupthink
•
The neuroaesthetics of what makes discoveries, creations, and
products good, bad, and valuable
o
The relationship between the creator and the beholder
“Ransom Stephens is that teacher. The one
who makes you wish you’d never left
school.”
-Andy Martwick, Intel
Details:
A 35 or 50 minute presentation for professionals. Presentation is best with an
HDMI compatible overhead projector, but it’s not required. Each speech is
customized to address the specific needs of the audience. Past speeches
have been delivered to audiences at colleges, cafes, museums, community
centers, bars, book stores, and even atop a mountain!
About the instructor:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a scientist and technologist. As a research
scientist he collaborated on major discoveries at international labs before
joining the private sector. He has worked in high tech research, development,
and marketing. He’s written hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from
neuroscience to quantum physics to parenting teenagers and several novels.
This speech emerged from his book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain
Laughs (Viva Editions), an edgy, somewhat irreverent, accurate look at the
neuroscience innovation in art and science. Ransom has given thousands of
speeches across the US, Europe, and Asia and has developed a reputation for
making complex topics accessible and funny.
Videos and booking info
• Watch videos of Ransom speaking to a variety of groups: • Everything you need to know to book Ransom to speak plus speaker bio, photos, testimonials, past clients, philosophy, etc.
