IQ Gemini

04/12/2019

We're happy to announce we'll be running a Playground Workshop with Handelsblatt Wirtschaftsclub this coming Monday 9 December here in Munich 😃 We'll be learning what good playgrounds can teach us about creativity and innovation in organizations, and experience how play and movement can change the way you work with your team in 2020.

Hope to see you there!

Für dieses Club-Coaching laden wir Sie an einen ganz besonderen Ort ein – den Spielplatz. Lassen Sie sich von den Innovationsexperten Alissia und Kimo Quaintance inspirieren und erhalten Sie Einblicke, wie eine gute Spielplatzgestaltung helfen kann, neue Lern- und Innovationssysteme in Ihrem...

04/12/2019

Kimo Quaintance discusses Games for Actors and Non-Actors, by Augusto Boal on his LinkedIn Book Challenge video today.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is a virtual encyclopedia of creative ways to explore emotions, the senses, memories, and the power of the body to express the potential for change. But what I wanted to focus on in this video is one of Boal's theater practices, called Forum Theater.

Forum Theater is a powerful method to help participants of a system investigate how the system works, understand the forces that are preventing change, and test out methods for changing their world as it is into the world as it can be.

It's our experience that future-oriented role play is an incredibly powerful and underrated tool for unleashing the power of groups to drive transformation and change. Embodying desired futures and future potential makes those futures lived experiences that can't be forgotten, and act as unifying experiences to sustain action in support of change.

If you want to experience the power of play, and bring your teams out of the depressing trap of just 'problem solving' and into the power of creating desirable futures, get in touch - we'd love to play together with you!

My Book Challenge for Day 2 is Games for Actors and Non-Actors, by Augusto Boal. This book is a virtual encyclopedia of creative ways to explore emotions...

13/11/2019

Kimo Quaintance spoke with WirtschaftsWoche last week about the problem of learning and digitization in Germany. (his section begins on the second page).

He argues that most companies struggling to digitize don't have a technology problem, they have a learning culture problem... namely a lack of a learning mindset driving the organization.

That requires changing the role of leaders to focus on constant support for learning, rather than just exercising authority over decisions and budgets. It means bringing curiosity to the center of how you work, so that you grow your capacity for creative solutions, rather than just optimize yourself into a corner. It means designing for engagement and alignment, and letting go of unrealistic expectations of control and predictability.

Tech tools are constantly changing, so if you want transformation that means anything, put your energy into building a learning culture.

Technologie: Die Digitalisierung in Deutschland lahmt, die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit leidet. Könnte mehr digitale Bildung den Fortschritt beschleunigen?

03/11/2019

"Nach dem Gespräch betritt Bildungsstratege Kimo Quaintance das Podium – er wird die Veranstaltung immer wieder mit erfrischenden Impulsen bereichern..."

Kimo Quaintance from GigaGipfel 2019:

"It was such a pleasure to design and facilitate the workshops for this year's GigaGipfel at the stunning Ice Q venue above Sölden at 3,048 meters (the glass cube at the top of a mountain featured in the James Bond film Spectre).

I'm always impressed what comes out when you give people the opportunity to explore together and discover common ground in service of collective action. It's all part of a much longer journey for me of learning that while talks and lectures have their place, listening and responding to a group is the art form I'd prefer to master. You have to let go of control and predictability, which is why few are inclined to design events this way, but what you gain in terms of engagement, insight and the potential for community-building - not to mention the pure fun of discovery - far outweigh the discomfort of the unknown."

https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/digitale-welt/giga-gipfel-technologie-fuer-ein-besseres-leben/25180788.html?social=twitter&Echobox=1572668188 =Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

26/06/2019

The HR Summit on Workforce Transformation is a terrific, forward-looking program put together by the ReDI School for Digital Integration.

Kimo Quaintance will be moderating the panel "Learning Culture & Future Skills: Digital Education Concepts" with industry leaders Christina Burkhardt - CEO & Founder of Shiftschool, Sophie Jonke - Head of ReDI Munich, Felicitas Birkner - Head Portfolio Management & EPS Academy Enterprise Platform Services of Fujitsu, and Carsten Johnson - Country Manager Networking Academy of Cisco Systems.

Special thanks to Birgit Köbl for her work on this great program, and we hope see you there on July 5th!

HR SUMMIT wird veranstaltet von ReDI Munich mit Unterstützung durch CISCO. Mit Digital Transformation Managern, Technology Leads, HR-Experten und Recruitern diskutieren wir vormittags über die „Workforce Transformation“ und die Auswirkungen auf das Personalmanagement und Recruiting. Wie erreic...

24/08/2018

If you couldn´t make it to Düsseldorf here the highlights of the terrace talk with Handelsblatt and Daimler Alissia Iljaitsch

Beim Handelsblatt-Terrassengespräch debattierten Daimler-Kommunikator Jörg Howe und Innovationsexpertin Alissia Quaintance über die Frage, wie sich Unternehmen neu erfinden können.

21/06/2018

A huge thank you to and for organizing a great event around B2B communications and exploring , and with us! Also a great shout out to the other speakers from , , and ! And last but not least a big thank you to 1ST ROW for the great connection!

24/05/2018

Would you like to introduce truly human-centered collaboration methodologies to your organization? Check out our latest newsletter where we share our approach using , our and to boost learning, experimentation and collaboration. Also ping us to sign up for our newsletter to get more news from us! https://mailchi.mp/f5310e73d7ec/the-mindset-of-control-vs-the-mindset-of-learning Alissia Iljaitsch Kimo Quaintance

“There are only two mindsets that can infiltrate an organization: control, or learning. It's just a question of which one is going to be dominant.”

09/05/2018

Playgrounds for Innovation and Transformation as a System! For those who couldn´t join our immersion into how 'play' and 'innovation' are interconnected, enjoy our recap of our workshop with the network in Munich! Thank you Patrick Frost Photography for the wonderful documentation of our experience. Reach out to us for more information on information how innovation and transformation can play together in your organization.

by Kimo and Alissia Quaintance, founders, IQ Gemini

24/04/2018

Interested in how to use VR & AR and embodied cognition for improving collaboration, creativity and sense-making in groups? Join Alissia Iljaitsch at the Neuromarketing congress at BMW World in Munich tomorrow! Looking forward to see you there

HIGHWAY TO BRAIN: Am 25. April 2018 findet der 11. Neuromarketing Kongress in der BMW-Welt München statt. Jetzt anmelden!

24/04/2018

What’s the best way to start off the week? We’d argue you can’t do much better than play time to wake up the body and mind.

Many thanks to the brilliant women of Frauen-verbinden, the CEO network for women, who joined us to explore the importance of play in the process of innovation. We explored how good playgrounds act as a system for connecting risk taking and the development of mastery, the support of positive self-image, social sense-making, adaptation, and resilience.

Stay tuned for our upcoming blog on how play relates to innovation and how to build transformation systems for your organization.