Andy Stefanovich

Chief Curator at Prophet, Best-Selling Author, Co-Founder of Play

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Andy Stefanovich Biography

As Chief Curator and Provocateur at Prophet, Andy Stefanovich has dedicated over two decades to guiding companies like GE, WellPoint, Coca-Cola, The Gap, and The United States Olympic Committee through creative and innovative evolution. His approach has not only disrupted traditional business practices but also enriched the internal culture and spurred significant marketplace growth. His strategic focus lies in fostering environments that transform inspiration into creativity and subsequently into sustainable innovation. Stefanovich teaches practical skills, leadership behaviors, and specific processes crucial for developing and implementing innovative ideas that fuel business growth.

Andy Stefanovich is a respected author, with his best-selling book "Look At More" emphasizing a "museum mentality" in the workplace to inspire innovation. This approach has been featured in various media, and the book itself was recognized by Advertising Age as one of the "Ten Marketing Books You Should Have Read" in 2011. Additionally, he is a notable speaker, having presented "The Museum Mentality" at TEDxLondonBusinessSchool, which underscores his method of inspiring innovation by delight, by design, and on demand. He uses real-world observations and client-based examples to teach how to become a "curator and provocateur" in businesses.

In addition to his role at Prophet, Stefanovich was a co-founder of Play, a creativity and innovation company that merged with Prophet in December 2008. This merger combined their strengths in transforming traditional business approaches through creativity. Beyond his professional endeavors, Stefanovich is actively involved in community and educational initiatives, serving on the board of KaBOOM!, a non-profit organization committed to ensuring that every child in America has a great place to play within walking distance. He holds a B.S. from Miami University of Ohio and continues to influence future leaders as a visiting professor at institutions including Dartmouth, University of Michigan, and Duke.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/11/2024.

Andy Stefanovich Speaking Topics

  • The Inspiration Continuum: 24 Hours of Innovation

    Your desk is a terrible place to get inspired. But the reality is, its where you spend your work day -• and where youre expected to be your most innovative. With the right mindset, you can create your own source for inspiration • anywhere and anytime.

    Using his principles of "look at more stuff and think about it harder," Andy Stefanovich will teach you how to build your inspiratory • a source, and process, for inspiring innovation. During this visually engaging presentation, Andy will detail the inspiration continuum, including direct, tangential, and abstract sources of inspiration. He will teach participants how to "look at more stuff" and the discipline of drawing insights from observations by using visual examples he has curated in the last 72 (24) hours.

    In this highly engaging presentation, Stefanovich:

    Teaches how to inspire your innovation through direct, tangential, and abstract sources of innovation

    Illustrates, with real-life examples curated over the previous 24 hours, how to effectively drive innovation from direct, tangential, and abstract sources of inspiration

  • The Museum Mentality: Focusing Your Organization on Inspiration and Innovation

    Why do we give ourselves permission to be inspired at a museum, but not at work? Because we expect it at the museum. To drive innovation and growth in business we need to give that same permission, and create that same expectation, for the people in our organizations. The permission to inspire and be inspired.

    Through a unique storytelling approach, Prophets Andy Stefanovich creates the museum mentality • combining proven client based examples with real-world observations. Focusing on the front end of innovation -• and giving your team the permission to inspire themselves and one another with a museum mentality -• is the most effective way to positively impact innovation.

    Andy will also teach them how to become a "curator and provocateur" within their organization, including techniques to inspire innovation by delight, by design, and on demand to systemically drive business innovations.

    Participants will:

    Learn how to become "curators" for innovation, editing the excellence of the world and bringing it to their organization to inspire innovation.

    Demonstrate the three museum mentality techniques to inspire your organization by delight, by design, and on demand.

  • The Innovation Discipline: The Inside Out

    Why does real innovation elude so many companies? Because the focus is at the macro level exclusively: assets, processes, and outputs. Instead, organizations need a more holistic focus that includes inspiring its people to unleash inspiration at the individual micro level. This workshop helps participants engage, reflect, and collaborate as the learn how to drive innovation throughout the organization -• from the inside out.

    Andy Stefanovich, Author of Look at More, details his 5M discipline to innovation. A discipline that addresses the macro level innovation mood of the organization and the micro level creative mindset of the people.

    Through provocative anecdotes and road tested case studies with Fortune 50 companies, Andy shares how the 5Ms can act as a diagnostic tool and road map for changing individuals, empowering teams, and transforming organizations. A discipline that goes beyond a quick burst of excitement to sustain innovation • organizationally, culturally, and personally.

    Andy will:

    Illustrate, through engaging client success stories, how expanding your companys innovation focus to include your people helps drive bottom line growth and internal engagement;

    Detail the 5Ms and the comprehensive organizational and how to create the organization mood for innovation and leverage the individual mindset for innovation;

    • Mood is the organization context for innovation

    • Mindset is the individual capacity for innovation

    • Mechanisms are the tools, processes, and approaches to facilitate innovation

    • Measurements are the traditional and non-traditional metrics for innovation

    • Momentum is the active championing of innovation for long term sustainability

    Teach you how to harness inspiration by thinking differently yourself and creating an organizational culture that encourages others to do the same.

Andy Stefanovich Videos

  • TEDxLondonBusinessSchool - Andy Stefanovich - The Museum Mentality
    Andy has earned a reputation as one of the most disruptive and effective advisors in business. As the Chief Curator and Provocateur at Prophet with...
  • TEDxNASA - Andy Stefanovich - More Provocative Questions and ...

Andy Stefanovich Books

  • Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
    Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change

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Andy Stefanovich is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Inspiration Continuum: 24 Hours of Innovation, The Museum Mentality: Focusing Your Organization on Inspiration and Innovation and The Innovation Discipline: The Inside Out. The estimated speaking fee range to book Andy Stefanovich for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Andy Stefanovich generally travels from Richmond, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Liz Wiseman, Erik Wahl, Paul Orfalea, Frans Johansson and John Wood. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Andy Stefanovich for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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