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When I exited my corporate career more than thirty-five years ago, I was privileged to be regarded and respected as the Fashion Direction Manager for the Grace Bros Department Store group, one of Australia's most senior women in retail management....

SCALING YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESSFULLY

by Janet Sernack|03 November 202403 November 2024|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog

Scaling your business is an excellent way to raise revenue and build a lasting brand, but it can be tricky, right? You can make it a little easier for yourself by doing the following: 1. Get Your Finances Sorted Scaling...

HUMANISING AGILITY

by Janet Sernack|09 October 202410 October 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog

Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an...

BE PLANET FRIENDLY USE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GO GREEN

by Janet Sernack|24 September 202425 September 2024|Innovation consulting blog

Let’s Think of the future as a giant, bold leap towards something better - and what’s better than saving some green while going green with renewable energy? The race is on to keep pace with the latest trends and be...

EMOTIONAL ENERGY, CREATIVE THINKING AND AI

by Janet Sernack|07 August 202408 August 2024|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog

The impact of disruption, hyperconnectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, causes many people to feel fearful and anxious. This results in them becoming defensive and reactive and ‘go under’ emotionally and ‘go inwards’ cognitively, often by ruminating...

BE INNOVATIVE IN TAKING SMART RISKS

by Janet Sernack|04 June 202401 July 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog

After founding ImagineNation™ in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking smart risks to invent an experiential business game. This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live...

ANYONE CAN LEARN TO INNOVATE

by Janet Sernack|08 April 202408 April 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog

The 21st century requires us to unlearn, learn, and relearn a different set of mindsets, behaviours, and skills, and anyone can learn to innovate to acclerate productivity growth, adapt to the new net zero reality, improve cost efficiencies and use...

HUMAN CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WITH AI

by Janet Sernack|08 October 202309 October 2023|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape...

KICKSTART CHANGE AND INNOVATE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

by Janet Sernack|05 January 202301 February 2023|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog

In our last blog, we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate. To take advantage of living in a globalised world, which is interconnected through technologies and...

INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS AND ADVERSITY

by Janet Sernack|31 March 202219 February 2023|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog

It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Interestingly, this disrupted our habitual unconscious safety and...

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