By the age of 25, most of us have lost the most valuable thing we possessed — our creativity. It was quietly, systematically stolen from us. How? The slow, relentless pressure to conform, to be sensible, to colour inside the lines.

We learnt, thoroughly and efficiently, to leave our genius at the door.

If businesses are made up of people, and people aren’t living up to their creative potential, then businesses aren’t living up to their creative potential. The Hello Leonardo workshops address the creativity killers in your team.

In a single workshop, you’ll not only reignite your creativity, but apply it to solve an unsolved problem.

Every workshop is designed around a client’s pressing needs. Past examples? A radio network needed ideas for an underperforming timeslot. A staid car brand needed to shake up its image. A city needed to reshape its economy for the 21st century. A 90-year-old magazine needed to find new relevance.

Workshop planning starts with a brief – the objectives to address. We’ll then dive into Leonardo’s Box of Tricks for the best creative thinking tools to generate unexpected solutions.

Most meetings drain people. These energise them. Participants consistently describe the moment a genuinely original idea emerges from the group as one of the most satisfying experiences they’ve had at work.

The joy of collectively arriving at a novel idea — the moment a room laughs because someone just said something unexpected and it’s actually brilliant — is an experience that’s genuinely rare in working life.

Using these tools, expect to generate sixty or more original ideas in an hour.

You’ll have a creative framework your team can use independently.

You’ll have a creative methodology embedded into your culture.

You’ll solve problems experts couldn’t crack. You’ll find opportunities hiding in plain sight. You’ll have fun doing it.

The workshop can be a half day or a full day. It can be in-person, or virtual. Each works for 3 people, or up to 30 people. Most are designed for a single business. Some work for multi-business groups, such as professional associations.