Bob Eckert is CEO at New & Improved. His focus is on helping organizations harness and develop the innovative brain power of their people to deliver new and improved results.

A sought-after facilitator, trainer and speaker, Bob uses his organizational design experience to make change efforts stick. Fast Company calls him an "Innovation thought leader" and he has been quoted in publications such as Forbes and Inc.com. He has written extensively about innovation leadership in both Demystifying Innovation Culture Efforts and More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams (co-authored with Jonathan Vehar).

He has been globally impacting the creativity/innovation world for more than 30 years.

A Scoutmaster and avid outdoorsman who's as comfortable driving a tractor as he is driving meetings in corporate boardrooms, Bob lives with his wife on their active tree farm in the Adirondack Park, where they also operate Adirondack Adventure Base together.

Listen to this inspirational The Thoughtful Leader episode with Bob Eckert about creativity.

Here is what to expect on this week's show:

• How much the average person uses their creative potential.
• The importance of being humble and curious in your work.
• Bob has three businesses and what are they?
• You can bring creativity to anything you do.
• Mental clutter and how it controls us.
• Bob's most challenging thing in his career.
• How do you overcome the feeling of low impact?
• How do you know if you're making an impact?
• There's no such thing as a "grown-up".

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