Your Essential Guide to Everyday Innovation.
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Whether you're at your kitchen table or sitting in a Silicon Valley boardroom, if you want impact that grows with you, start with Innovation-ish.
For a clear and data-driven approach to build your innovative skillset with confidence, you won't find a better book than Innovation-ish by Rich Braden and Tessa Forshaw.
Innovation is more than just a skill; it is essential for leadership, citizenship, and navigating the future. At a time when educational systems are navigating deep complexity, Innovation-ish offers a clear, grounded, and inspiring approach.
Innovation-ish is an actionable playbook for every aspiring innovator. Its frameworks will help you succeed because they capture how real people solve real problems.
Innovation-ish makes the implicit processes of creativity visible, structured, and learnable.
Braden and Forshaw offer a refreshing perspective on the drivers of innovative capacity in organizations. Sustainable innovation comes from developing leaders and teams that think differently by intentionally adopting the right mindsets.
Innovation Matters More Than Ever
From Businesses to Individuals, Innovation Drives Growth, Success, and Positive Change.
Innovation isn’t just a buzzword — it’s a necessity. But why is it so universally sought after?
- Businesses and Organizations: It's the key to staying competitive, growing revenue, satisfying customers, increasing productivity, and attracting top talent.
- For Employees and Individuals: It opens doors for career advancement, fosters personal growth, boosts adaptability, and provides a sense of creative fulfillment.
- For Society and the Economy: It drives job creation, fuels economic growth, and offers solutions to pressing societal challenges.
In a rapidly changing world, innovation is the engine of progress. But it can feel like an exclusive club reserved for a select few.
Featured Apperances
The real skill behind creative breakthroughs
TEDx Melbourne, September, 2025
Be Innovation-ish
Human Capital Leadership with Jonathan Westover, PhD. December 2, 2025
What’s Inside This Book?
- The three simple models that explain how all design, innovation, and creative problem solving methods work.
- The cognitive processes that make everyone creative and why all people are BOTH creative and analytical.
- How you can Start Somewhere on any problem and make progress with a next step in just 10 minutes.
- 50+ diagrams, exercises, examples to let you start today and build your innovation-ish practice.
- Key takeaways for each chapter to review and refresh your memory. Innovation-ish is your go-to reference for solving problems.
- Practical examples of real people solving real problems without fancy degrees or expensive technology.
Endorsed by Leaders in Business, Education, and Nonprofit
“For a clear and data-driven approach to build your innovative skillset with confidence, you won't find a better book than Innovation-ish by Rich Braden and Tessa Forshaw.”
Martin Lindstrom
New York Times bestselling author of Buyology and The Ministry of Common Sense
“Braden and Forshaw offer a refreshing perspective on the drivers of innovative capacity in organizations. Sustainable innovation comes from developing leaders and teams that think differently by intentionally adopting the right mindsets.”
Sarah Soule
Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business
“Innovation is more than just a skill; it is essential for leadership, citizenship, and navigating the future. At a time when educational systems are navigating deep complexity, Innovation-ish offers a clear, grounded, and inspiring approach.”
Nonie K. Lesaux
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Whether you're at your kitchen table or sitting in a Silicon Valley boardroom, if you want impact that grows with you, start with Innovation-ish.”
Premal Shah
Co-Founder Kiva.org, Board Member Center for Humane Technology, Change.org Foundation, Watsi, and VolunteerMatch.
“Braden and Forshaw offer a refreshingly practical guide to creative problem-solving.”
Tina A. Grotzer
Faculty of Education, Harvard University
“Innovation-ish is an actionable playbook for every aspiring innovator. Its frameworks will help you succeed because they capture how real people solve real problems.”
Stefanos Zenios
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Wherever You Are, This Is Your Next Step
Whether you’re starting fresh or scaling up, Innovation-ish meets you right where you are.
This guide is a must-read for everyone on their innovation journey!
- If you're new to innovation, you'll find it easy to begin
- If you've attempted innovative projects before and struggled, you'll learn how to overcome barriers that used to hold you back
- If you struggle with imposter syndrome and wonder, “Who am I to be an innovator?” you'll see that you already have the skills, tools, and creativity to succeed
- If you're an experienced innovator, you'll learn ways to accelerate and build on your successes through a new lens.