Engineering Inspiration - Richmond Grid

Richmond, it’s time to “look at more.” Andy Stefanovich, Chief Curator and Provocateur at Prophet, has spent two decades helping companies around the world drive innovation from the inside out.

For anyone familiar with Stefanovich’s inspiring presentations, they know he’s mastered the art of sparking change among business leaders and employees through practical skills and leadership behavior

Now it’s time for us to find out how this local creativity shaman really does it. Come spring, we will get our crack at the wild and wonderful mind that is Stefanovich with the release of his new book Look at More.

Stefanovich made a name for himself in the ’90s by co-founding Play-a RVA based creativity and innovation company-which changed the way business does business. Play and Prophet eventually joined forces, and Stefanovich now pulls regular gigs as a popular keynote speaker and has been featured on CNBC and MSNBC. So how do you inspire people? “Well, it’s all about learning to think differently and encouraging others to do the same,” according to the book’s promotions. Readers will have a chance to really dig into Stefanovich’s take on engineering innovation through inspiration.

Look at More explores the front end of the “Inspiration-Creativity-Innovation” continuum, as a systematic approach. The goal of the book is show the reader how to consistently apply this strategy in order to bring long-term and sustainable results.

Offering “strategies, tactics, insights, and cases that show how you can instill inspiration at an individual, team, and organizational level,” Stefanovich also takes a stab at why real innovation eludes so many organizations, including those with the best technology, the cheapest resources, and even chief innovation officers.

For anyone familiar with Stefanovich’s inspiring presentations, they know he’s mastered the art of sparking change among business leaders and employees through practical skills and leadership behavior. In his speeches, as well as in the new book, Stefanovich outlines what he calls the Five M’s of innovation, which include: mood, mindset, mechanisms, measurement, and momentum.

Designed as a hands-on-guide, Look at More will also explain Stefanovich’s proven LAMSTAIH approach (Look At More Stuff, Think About It Harder).

Look for Look at More in bookstores this April.