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Charles Leadbeater
Advisor of Tony Blair, one of the Prime Ministers of UK, who has been awarded as the Best Idea Of The Year by New Yor Times
Charles Leadbeater, is a leading authority in the field of innovation and creativity. Leadbeater advised worldwide companies, cities and governments in innovation strategies and has shared his experiences in his recently published book “We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.”
In 2005 Charles was ranked by Accenture, the management consultancy company, as one of the top management thinkers in the world. A past winner of the prestigious David Watt prize for journalism, Charles was profiled by the New York Times in 2004 for generating one of the best ideas of the year, the rise of the activist amateur, outlined in his report The Pro-Am Revolution. He advised many companies including BBC, Vodafone, Microsoft, Ericsson, Channel Four TV and the royal company “Royal |
Shakespeare Company” by creating ideas of which the intellectual property is owned by him. As the assistant editor of Independent, he has given consultancy service to Helen Fielding, during the writing of the script of Bridget Jones’ Diary. He wrote the first British report on the rise of social entrepreneurship, which has since become a global movement. His report on the potential for the web to generate social change led to the creation of the “Social Innovation Camp” movement.
Charles has worked extensively as a senior adviser to the governments. |
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