Why didn't an engineering firm perform better than a class of 6th and 7th grade students on some fundamental innovation tasks? In this surprising and visually arresting talk, Alex Bruton urges us to stop competing for the Post-It-Notes-on-the-wall-because-they-are-cool-and-spread-it-out we-put-the-keywords-into-the-wall. -annual report notes on innovation. He shares a simple, powerful model for innovation literacy and challenges us to find the confidence in ourselves to make innovation accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Dr. Alex Bruton helps people (learn to) innovate. He has spoken around the world, including a guest lecture at Google, and was named Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year in Canada. He has been an engineer, a manager, a multi-time entrepreneur and a professor – among other exciting roles – and today he is the founder and president of a hands-on open education and innovation design firm called The Innograaf, which helps people become more innovative and entrepreneurial. . He invites you to join him in transforming the way society thinks about innovation and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.

This talk was delivered at a TEDx event in the TED conference format, but independently organized by a local community. For more information, visit http://ted.com/tedx

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