
More About Dave Birss
This love of the creative world has followed Dave Birss throughout his career. Starting out as Creative Directors at media companies Mr Smith, and MRM Worldwide, payment company POKE, and advertising business OgilvyOne. He would go on to become Heads of Culture and Innovation at ESI Media – the company behind newspapers such as The Independent – Head of Ideas at the School of Communication Arts, and Head of TV at the marketing organisation, The Drum, as well as being their Editor at Large.
Since then, he has used his vast experience to work with other companies to help them use creativity more effectively, through talks, workshops, and consultancies. In 2016 he founded OpenForIdeas.org, an online magazine to help professionals become more creative, and in 2019 he became a visiting Professor at Kingston School of Art.
He was also the presenter of the Future of Advertising podcast, where he aimed to demystify creativity in a professional setting.
Dave is a successful author, having published a number of books:
- A User Guide to the Creative Mind (2013) which was then updated and re-published in 2021
- Iconic Advantage®: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old (2018)
- How to Get Great Ideas: A System For Smart, Extraordinary Thinking (2019)
- Friction: Adding Value by Making People Work For It (2022)
Dave is also a very successful course leader, and currently has half a dozen Generative AI courses on LinkedIn and is their top AI Course Leader with over 100,000 students.
Dave has created a slew of courses for LinkedIn Learning, with his most recent offerings focused on leveraging generative AI (like ChatGPT) for real benefit, and finding the perfect combination of human creativity and technology partnerships.
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Dave Birss – Speaking Topics
- Effective Creativity for Business
- Beyond the Brainstorm
- Boost Your Creativity
- Dot Collecting – The Habit of Great Creative People
- 10 Things I Learned From Busking
- How to Kill an Idea
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Dave Birss – Workshops
Prompt Engineering: A 1/2 day training session, equipping delegates with proven prompt frameworks to consistently get the most out of AI. Through this workshop, Dave aims to help drive innovation, improve quality, increase efficiency, enhance service, minimise risk, drive standardisation, get ahead of competitors, achieve greater ROI, and future-proof organisations.
AI For Teams: A 1/2 day training session, aiming to enhance your team’s abilities with ChatGPT and other AI tools. Benefits include delighting customers, creating consistency, driving innovation, increased output quality, accelerated workflows, less errors, and more business opportunities.
Managing AI: A 1/2 day training session, helping to equip and manage teams to get the most from generative AI. Dave aims to help you get ahead of any changes, avoid wasted investments, minimise risks, become an AI trailblazer, realise untapped potential, future-proof your business, and lead with confidence.
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To check fees and availability for creativity for business creativity speaker Dave Birss, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289