TD School Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation

Are you working in a place that hasn't had anything change in five years? Are you working in a place where you're driving every decision that lives in there? Are you working in a place that you think is stagnant and there's no life and vitality?

Then you need to have this degree.

You need to have people that think differently, that breathe differently.

Transdisciplinarity is really about bringing together lots of different ways of knowing, lots of different disciplines, lots of different people and communities, and using creative intelligence to find unexpected and new ways forward.

The Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation is really about becoming a reflective practitioner so that you're able to respond to the most complex difficult challenges in society, and a big part of how we respond of course is working with others, so it's not just about you yourself improving your own practice your own thinking but equally how you can work with others as a group to improve together.

I thought leadership was knowing the destination and taking people with you and I now know that leadership is about identifying all the talents and perspectives and the right people to be at the table for the conversation and then giving them tools and methods to bring their perspectives out and to have confidence in their difference.

Innovation is about understanding that you need disruptors. So the practical aspects of the course start with creativity. So how do we harness our creativity?

We're all creative. [There are] so many practical tools that we have from cross-section of history and disciplines and we work with lots of those different tools, apply them to everyday life and become really adept at being able to use them, bring them together so that they match the situation and you can continue to work and see things that you wouldn't have seen before.

By understanding that your whole environment, what you wear and why you wear it, where you go and why you go there, why you eat toast at breakfast and why you won't eat it for dinner are all part of the rules the hidden rules in in the world. And if you think about that, then on your professional level what are all the things I'm subscribing to that I don't actually agree with and when you can start to see all those constructs you then look at the world in a completely different way it enables you to start leaning into different directions.

I think innovation is really important for organisations because we're all trying to progress and it's really difficult when we know the current things we do now, we’ve mastered them really well, but, actually, ‘what's the next thing we need to do’ is a really hard question to answer and explore. But you just feel like you've got this toolkit of lots of different disciplines, different ways of thinking that's really useful, so it's been really impactful.