Welcome to the website of Jack Martin Leith, jugaad innovation consultant, practitioner and advocate
My purpose: Helping organisations bring forth new creations that enrich the world.
My lifelong mission: To discover the true nature of the creative process.
My work: Jugaad innovation consultant, practitioner and advocate.
Jugaad (a Hindi word meaning an improvised solution born from ingenuity) is a frugal and flexible approach to innovation.
Jugaad innovators are modern-day alchemists who transmute adversity into opportunity, and in so doing create value for their organizations and communities.
Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja , Use Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better, Harvard Business Review
Read more about jugaad innovation | Go to Jugaad2015 website
Current positions:
Consultant
Stepping Stones ConsultancyInnovation Associate
Mo Gannon & AssociatesMember
Dr. James Wilk’s UK-based Minimalist Intervention think tank
My credentials: Client list | Testimonials | CV (resumé)
Innovation experience dates back to the 1980s.
Strong links with academia. Lectured at University of Brighton, London School of Economics, London Business School and elsewhere.
Former member of governing council, Association for Management Education and Development.
Writings published in Organisations & People and other management journals.
Author of Creating Collaborative Gatherings Using Large Group Interventions, which forms Chapter 28 of the Gower Handbook of Training and Development (1999).
Based in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Jack Martin Leith: the story so far
Perhaps I can give a talk about jugaad innovation or lead a participative session at your conference or event?
In this video you can see me giving a five-minute Ignite Bristol talk – Enriching the world: is it good business practice? – with slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds.
“I have heard many people over many years try to ‘persuade’ die hard ‘financial-only’ driven business people that ‘being good’ is also good business. But this talk PROVES the point better, faster and with better evidence than I have ever heard. As a CEO of a smallish niche global business we just assume ‘good’ as being part of work. My sense also is that many large corporates have changed quite a lot in the last two decades as more and more leaders know and want to succeed in the right way. Amazing video!”
Paul Miller, Intranet Benchmarking Forum
Download the slides (PowerPoint document, 3.52MB, opens in a new window)
Please contact me if you think I might be the right person to speak at your conference or event. I can also lead a participative session for any number of people, as I did in Amsterdam last year for several hundred participants attending SOCAP Europe.
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