Jonathan
Vehar
Jonathan's Professional Footprint
Books
Facilitation: A Door to Creative Leadership
A practical guide to help you improve your facilitation skills and lead others successfully through a creative problem solving process.
How to Make Meetings Not Suck
This book lays out practical methods and techniques that enable leaders to reduce the amount of wasted time and resources spent on meetings.
Creativity Unbound
A training manual with dozens of creative thinking tools and a step-by-step introduction to the creative problem solving process.
More Lightning, Less Thunder – How to Energize Innovation Teams
More Lightning, Less Thunder illuminates a contrarian approach to creating innovation in your organization.
Manage Your Boss
The relationship between you and your boss is important. By taking an active role in managing your boss, you can decrease misunderstandings.
Guest Appearances
A conversation with Gary Fly at CXO Innovation Lab
Gary Fly and I discuss innovation, creativity, and how businesses can use them for productivity. And, we review my career path…
Creative Flow: Thinkers and Change Agents
Posted October 16, 2024 Hosted by Anthony Billoni and Kim Marine McKernan, the Creative Flow Podcast Series features discussions with thinkers and change agents important
Lean for Humans podcast
Premiered Oct 10, 2024 An interview with Bella Englebach about Jonathan and Kathi’s book, How to Make Meetings Not Suck: Tips and Tools to Run
Light My Fire
Light my fire! What do you do when there are only embers? How do you stop worrying about wet matches? No fuel, no problem.
Most Impactful Leaders Are Hungry To Learn And Adapt To Today’s World:
Most Impactful Leaders Are Hungry To Learn And Adapt To Today’s World. Leaders need to keep their workforce inspired and aligned.
Jonathan Vehar on the future of learning – AI, innovation and skills
Learning is always a social process. We learn with other people. But the tools that we are using to learn have shifted a lot.
Videos
Lean for Humans podcast
Premiered Oct 10, 2024 An interview with Bella Englebach about Jonathan and Kathi’s book, How to Make Meetings Not Suck: Tips and Tools to Run
Keep Stepping Up: Change Requires Tenacity
Then, out of nowhere, he says to me, “I see you’re practicing grace.”
Small things can create big shifts
Small things can create big shifts: a technique to enhance change and engagement. What can rabbits teach about leadership? Quite a Lot.
White Papers
Innovation: How Leadership Makes the Difference White Paper Podcast
Published Dec 17, 2024, A podcast by David Magellan Horth This is an AI-generated podcast based on the CCL whitepaper by David Magellan Horth and
Becoming a Leader Who Fosters Innovation
Not long ago we spoke to a senior leader in a large multinational organization who voiced his frustration about the lack of innovation . . .
How to make meetings not suck – white paper
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” And as we know,vacuums suck. Meetings also suck. So, it is human nature to abhor meetings, most of which suck.
Articles
Innovation Space Exploration: Designing Your Optimal Creative Environment
Innovation Space Exploration: Designing Your Optimal Creative Environment. Where do you get your best ideas?
Creativity and Innovation: A call for rigor in language
Many well-meaning practitioners use the words creative process, creativity, and innovation interchangeably, which is confusing for all.
7 Innovation Myths That Kill Performance
Here are seven myths of innovation that trip up countless businesses, from the mega-corporation to the nimble start-up.
The Missing Keys in Your Quest for Innovation
An effective toolset is a critical part of driving innovation. Reframing the challenge and rapid prototyping are effective techniques.
