The Background

The Business Council of Australia released a report in 2006 entitled New Concepts in Innovation - The Key To Growing Australia.

The report found that innovation activity extends across all parts of business to all levels and through a wide variety of functions. Business innovation in the era of the knowledge industries is no longer driven by science and technology but by the human capital of employees and their ability to be able to apply their knowledge and experience to drive creativity and innovation within their organizations.

The main theme of the Business Council of Australia Report is the importance of developing not only technical skills in the workforce but those associated with communication, team work, problem solving, creativity, cultural understanding and leadership. It expressed concern about the extent to which education and training systems are providing people with these capabilities and it called for renewed efforts to expand Australia’s capabilities in those areas.

The Creative Leadership Forum has been established in response to those concerns through the formation of an Australia wide network of senior executives and creativity and innovation practitioners with the purpose of presenting a series of forums and international master classes in association with some of Australia’s best know Business Schools and leadership organizations.

Its outcome is to develop , design and deliver executive education and training programmes that will provide senior executives and employees with world class creativity and skills training programmes for all Australians regardless of their occupations.