Matt Hart, Ideas Guy
Innovator, Educator, Entrepreneur, Husband/Dad
betterideasfaster.com
bifkids.com
sideways.ai
ABOUT
Humanity has an ideas problem:
98% of 5-year olds are creative geniuses.
That number plummets to just 2% in adults.
NASA – Longitudinal Tracking Study
Think that through?! Exactly how are we going to create and innovate our human potential in this time of ever-expanding machine learning, AI, and robots? And how will we ensure the best ideas we innovate deliver for the benefit of people & planet?
I live these questions - in my global work, in my entrepreneurial ventures, with my family and within myself. I continue to serve clients to help make innovation happen today, and am venturing the next-gen problem solvers, innovators and change makers of tomorrow.
CLIENT HIGHLIGHTS
20+ years proven as an outer-minded thinker - using the process of innovating breakthrough brands & ideas to unleash creative people and transform the culture from within organisations:
ATLANTIC RECORDS UK London/Global
MERIDIAN ENERGY Christchurch/NZ
SYNLAIT Christchurch/NZ
GREATCALL Los Angeles/USA
WARNER MUSIC Sydney/London/NYC
UNICEF London/UK
CISCO San Jose/Global
SPOTIFY New York/Global
AMERICAN IDOL Los Angeles/USA
FONTERRA Auckland/Global
O2 London/UK
SONY MUSIC London/Global
MTV London/UK
CANCER RESEARCH UK London/UK
BBC RADIO 1 London/UK
UNILEVER London/UK/GLobal
BETTER IDEAS FASTER for ENTERPRISE
My innovation practise resolves to innovating better ideas faster to impact Brand, People and Culture.
BRAND & FANS
I’m known for pioneering a revolutionary approach to audience innovation known as Fandom… because why have customers when you can have fans?!
More deeply, I believe brands in the 21st century can be agents of change. The fundamental shift required is moving from the transactional paradigm of consumption (consumers), towards a cocreative approach that harnesses the power of fans to become world-changing brands.
There’s a language and model to fandom which can he hard to get. So I put together a handbook to explain the A-Z of Fandom.
You can grab a copy on Amazon.
PEOPLE & CULTURE
What good is purpose, values and meaning if people don’t have the required capabilities to innovate new value from them?
I’ve delivered global transformation programs to truly unleash the cultural power of ideas. No matter the brand, business or organisation, everything always resolves to people and their confidence to create, collaborate and innovate no matter where they are in the organisation.
To help speed those developments, and solve the hangover problems of 20th century brainstorming and innovation, I’ve distilled 20+ years of global experience into a program for people - cunningly called the BIF People Program.
You can learn about that here.
BIFKiDS for NEXT GEN
BETTER IDEAS FASTERRR, BY KiDS
Ultimately the existential problems we wrestle with today will fall to the next generations. Meaning, we absolutely must reverse the decline in kids capacity to imagine, problem solve, and innovate.
I’m doing my bit with BIFKiDS - products, programs and experience that nurture and develop kids into their future proofing creativity.
I’ve developed and proven a curriculum from pre-school to senior college. Works now are about venturing structures to scale out of prototyping into impact for the biggest possible audience.
BIFKiDS
IdeasGirl Book No.1
IdeasBoy Book No.1
Activity Book No.1
YOUNG TEENS
Madix and the BIFBOTS
SENIOR STUDENTS
BIF101
EDUCATORS
Ideas School
PARENTS
Parenting Creative Problem Solvers
VENTURING WITH CO-CONSPIRATORS
The real joy of innovating is doing it with others of like minds, motivations and north stars. Current collaborations are with good mates John Mason and James Scroggs venturing into Ed-Tech and Mindfulness-Tech.
Sideways
The platform solution for modern day learning
MY STORY
Do Lectures
Cardigan Bay, Wales 2013
David Hieatt - Do cofounder - challenges speakers to not do their normal schtick, rather open up and get honest. This was me nervous as all hell doing just that (20 mins watch)
INSPIRATION
Visit
Matapouri - my spiritual home
Watch
Yvon Chouinard, the hero I never want to meet (take an hour and watch the link … 'The Education of a Reluctant Businessman'
Listen
Deepak Chopra talks through our limited understanding of reality #mindblowing (it’s a quantum thing, which is IMHO a domain of real future innovation)
Product
An exemplar for how everything should be made - this Vitsoe 620 chair (I’m fortunate enough to have one)
Quotes
”If you can do something well, you have some sort of obligation to yourself to do it the best you can. I’m afraid that’s a concept not thought highly of in a lot of circles, now or ever, but how can an intelligent person live with themselves if they aren’t doing something they love to the best of their ability?”
Richard. P Feynman
“hope is an act of the imagination”
Nick Cave - do check the Red Hand Files
”modern activism is an act of innovation”
James Scroggs & I will take that one
”innovators aren’t born, they’re made”
That’s one of mine :)
CONTACT & FOLLOW
hello @ betterideasfaster dot com
linkedin @matthart-betterideasfaster
insta @mattkiwihart
insta @betterideasfaster
insta @bifkids