Graham's varied career, as university tutor, educational psychologist, postman, boatman, guidance officer in Darwin, Australia, barman, tractor driver, Director of Enterprise, management consultant and author are all mixed in his current profession of helping companies invent new products.

He has facilitated innovation and taught creativity in Hong Kong, USA, Holland, Denmark, Ireland, France and Portugal as well, of course, as the UK, his home country.

He has been involved in helping companies to invent wave machines, hair dying, rocket motors, lipsticks, pet food, fast food, software, insurance services, psychological services, internet services, in fact, just about anything.

His academic background, with teaching experience in four different universities lends an analytic approach to his work – “Getting to the right solution” is his aim. He has run innovation courses in some 40 universities and over 100 companies. He approaches innovation with a tough approach to sloppy thinking while generating lots of fun for the kind of wayward thinking needed to challenge solving problems from what is currently known.

He offers his knowledge of psychology (with a B.A., an M.A. and PhD in Psychology) alongside his training and experience in Innovation, being, he believes, the only person to have trained in Synectics (an innovation consultancy started in the 60’s and now a global business) and TRIZ (The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) which is now being adopted by large technological companies around the globe.

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