Dr Chris Arnold

Sounds Like a Great Place to Work

60 min talk on how to make the working environment better for ND people and everyone. An examination of the audio landscape of offices and how sound affects the working environment and its impact upon staff, productivity and especially neurodiverse people.

• How to make your office more audio friendly and work enhancing for neurodiverse people, as well as those with mental health and stress issues.
• Understanding the importance of sound in the environment and how it affects us.
• Why sound is more important than looks.
• How sound enhances culture.

Packed with fascinating facts, science and human observations, Chris takes you on a journey that will open both your mind and ears. Chris draws upon his personal experience of being neurodiverse, founder of Dysversity Lab (a global collective of high performing ND people), his training as an interior designer with a specialism in acoustics (prior to going into marketing) and being a musician.

Tapping Into the Talent – How to embrace the super thinkers

A mind opening talk that challenges a lot of miss-understanding around ND and dyslexia. How dyslexics and mavericks can enhance your company’s abilities, how they can deliver innovation, solve problems other can’t and help you stay ahead of the competition.

Chris will take you a fascinating journey, that will leave you enlightened, informed and inspired.

‘Dimensional Thinking - Supercharge your employees thinking!

Both a talk and a three half-day workshop course that is designed to help employees

see and think in new ways, to develop ideation, innovation, creativity and problem-solving skills. A mind gym for thinking. Based on psychometric profiling, it helps people think better and understand how other think, to help them think differently, solve problems in new ways and be more open minded. Chris draws on his experience as Creative Director to empower employees to think better and even out-smart AI. Chris will take them on an engaging journey, that will leave them enlightened, informed and inspired.

The course can be integrated into your Learning & Development (L&D) strategy. The workshop involves three key workshops and covers many techniques and methodologies like Kaizen, Six-Sigma, First Principle Thinking (used by Elon Musk), The 5 Whys and more. It also dips into psychology – Enneagrams, NLP and Behavioural Economics. Lots of practical activities to make it hands on too.

FLIP – Unthink Everything You Know

Based on Chris’ (soon to be published) book of the same name, it helps business and organisation rethink how they think.

This thought provoking talk helps you think in new ways, to turn thinking inside out and back to front to give you a competitive advantage. Full of fascinating mind bending ideas and examples.

“If you follow conventional thinking, all you’ll ever be is conventional.” [Simon Woodroffe, YoGroup]

In a challenging, disruptive world it challenges conventional thinking, opens minds and helps you be more agile and competitive. Packed with examples and practical ways to improve your ability to think, innovate and problem-solve. Chris will take you on an engaging journey, that will leave you enlightened, informed, inspired and make you rethink how you think about thinking.

The Psychology of Consumer – Why we buy & how to be more persuasive

An exploration of psychology from NLP to behavioural economics. Discover what makes people think. What makes us buy. How we chose. What stops us buying. The power of crowds and trends over individualism. The truth about GenZ, Millennials and Baby Boomers.

This talk has been delivered to various colleges and universities. Available in a 1 hour or 2 hour version.

Fast Forward Thinking

Bespoke futurology talk on the future.

While the focus is on understanding and engaging customers, I look at trends, behavioural change and new technology, like AI. It can be adapted to key sectors like: FMCG, automotive, technology, media, entertainment…

How AI is Changing The Face of Marketing

A look at the relationship between marketing and AI, and how it’s changing the model. Explore the possible future outcomes, how AI can be both a friend and foe.

AI vs HI – From Creativity to Con Men

This engaging talk looks at artificial intelligence vs human intelligence and the area of creativity – including how criminals are using it. Can AI be as creative as humans in writing, art and music?

Eleanor Crook, who has worked with Midjourney, said, “There is no eye in AI.”

Jo Maciejewska, author and gamer, said, “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing. Nor for AI to do my art and writing so that all I have left to do is the laundry and dishes.”

Can it think dimensionally or always remain a logical process? Can it deliver creative solutions? The talk looks at both the positive and negatives and more importantly, the power of the two together.

Chris will take you on objective and engaging journey, that will leave you enlightened, informed and inspired.