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Scott Belsky |
| Country USA |
| Company Behance |
| Designation Founder and CEO |
When ideas happen, it is not by accident.
What separates creative people who make their ideas happen from the constant dreamers?
Do you have a business idea that you're interested in making a reality?
Ideas are worthless if you can't make them happen.
Many of us believe that great ideas inevitably lead to success. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Whether it is the perfect solution for an everyday problem or a bold new concept for a creative masterpiece, you must transform vision into reality for an idea to have value.
After years of research, Scott Belsky and his team at Behance have found a series of best practices common across some of the world's most productive creative people and teams. In this session, Scott Belsky will help us learn how idea generation and organization come together to make ideas happen. Scott will discuss the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams - companies like Google, IDEO, and Disney, and individuals like author Chris Anderson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh - that make their ideas happen, time and time again.
You will learn:
· How to overcome "reactionary workflow" and start pushing ideas forward.
· How to let go of the myth of the lonely creative genius.
· Push through the "project plateau"... and finish!
Bio
SCOTT BELSKY
Founder & CEO, Behance
Scott Belsky is the founder of Behance, a company that develops products and services for the creative industries. Behance oversees the Behance Network (Behance.net), the world’s leading online platform for creative professionals; The 99% (The99percent.com), Behance's think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world, and Action Method (ActionMethod.com), a popular online/mobile productivity application and line of organizational paper products. Scott is also the author of the national bestselling book Making Ideas Happen (Portfolio, Penguin Books).
Through his work at Behance, Scott has become an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower the careers of creative professionals. He has consulted for leading media and Fortune 500 companies, including GE and Hewlett-Packard, and has traveled as far as the Kaospilots School in Aarhus, Denmark to talk about his findings. He has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, and has shared Behance's research in segments on ABC News, MSNBC, and with the United States State Department. Scott was also included in Fast Company Magazine's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business." Scott has guest lectured at Cornell University, Harvard University, VCU Brand Center, and UC Berkeley among other institutions, and serves as a small business expert on American Express' Open Forum website.
Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with Goldman Sachs' key clients. Scott chairs the Board of Reboot, serves on Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program, is a board member for the Art Director's Club, and is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.