Lead change, solve problems,
and create breakthroughs.
On my website, you’ll find tools, methods, and resources
to think more vividly, collaborate more deeply, and do better work.
Resources to …
Apply the core methods of Wicked Problem Solving® to build a deeper shared understanding of problems and aspirations, generate creative options, and align on bold steps to produce elegant outcomes.
Solve Complex Problems
Engage teams in the Marshmallow Challenge, a fun and instructive design exercise that reveals surprising lessons of how we can work better by building fast, cheap, useful prototypes.
Kickstart Collaboration
Start a meeting, workshop, or conversation with a quick exercise to make your ideas visible. Draw ‘How to Make Toast’ to ignite your creative and analytical thinking and visualize what’s next for you and your teams..
Map a System
Download simple visual templates to identify emerging technologies to see where they can improve business processes and outcomes.
Explore New Technologies
Engage teams in a fun and instructive design exercise to work together better by building fast, cheap, learning prototypes.
Design a Workshop
Think Visually
Build your skills for visual thinking by downloading templates to visually express your ideas as well as viewing visual notes from TED and other conferences..
Keynotes and Workshops
Tom has delivered over 400 keynotes, workshops, and presentations to Fortune 500 organizations, industry associations, and global conferences.
View some of Tom’s TED talks and explore how he clearly explains a wide range of relevant topics.
How to Solve Problems Visually
Engage Your Teams to do Deep Work
Upgrade Your Innovation Playbook
Learn how Tom can inform, inspire, and entertain your audiences to think more creatively and critically about the important work that lies ahead.
Wicked Problem Solving
Wicked Problem Solving is a fun, engaging, and deep system of methods and tools to lead change, solve problems, and create breakthroughs.
Distributed exclusively by PMI, the Project Management Institute, the WPS Practitioner course elevates problem-solving, innovation, collaboration, and leadership skills. By thinking about work as selecting and running plays, you get better work done.
Books
Pumping Ions
Exercises to tone and tune the mind has sold over 400,000 copies in 16 languages.
A compendium of methods and tools
to foster creative thinking.
Five Star Mind
Published by the Financial Times, methods
to bring more imagination into business.
Return on Imagination
A visual tour of how artists, designers, and engineers are changing our world for the better.
Imagine Design Create
Understanding the forces shaping
how we make things, who makes them,
and what we will make.
The Future of Making
Part of the WPS Practitioner course, a system
to lead change, solve complex problems,
and create breakthroughs.
