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Chris Thomason is not your average creativity expert—he’s a Freaky Thinking pioneer, redefining how organisations can supercharge their growth mindset.
Having lived, worked, and spoken on creativity and innovation across three continents, Chris brings a truly global perspective to workplace thinking challenges. His innovative Freaky Thinking approach is like a growth mindset on steroids, helping teams break free from conventional thought patterns and unlock their full creative potential.
With extensive experience across industries—including financial services, manufacturing, mining, logistics, chemicals, telecoms, and more—Chris has worked with large organisations in Europe, Africa, and Australia. He knows first hand the struggles they face and how to spark the creative thinking that solves big problems.
But Chris isn’t just a consultant—he’s a doer. Armed with an MBA, he took over a small manufacturing company teetering on the edge of insolvency and transformed it into the third-largest player in its sector. In one of his more daring feats, he successfully ran a gold mine in the midst of a civil war in Africa, showing that creativity thrives in even the toughest environments.
An engineer and designer by trade, Chris holds the #4 spot on Thinkers360’s global list of top design thinkers and is ranked in the top 10 for creativity and top 25 for innovation worldwide. He’s a Registered European Engineer, a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, bringing both deep expertise and practical experience to every stage.
Chris believes that with the right mindset, every employee can sharpen their thinking. He shows leaders how to achieve this with simple, actionable techniques that anyone can apply, and managers can easily shape into their teams’ everyday workflows. It’s not about radical changes—just freaky tweaks that lead to exponential results.
His first TEDx talk earned the honour of being a TEDx Editor’s Choice, and his other presentations have been celebrated as insightful, inspiring, and truly engaging. Audiences rave about his ability to deliver a powerful message with simplicity, passion, and clarity.
If you want to challenge your organisation’s thinking, drive innovation, and elevate creativity across the board, Chris is the expert who will help you unleash the next level of thinking—freaky thinking.
What if the key to your organisation’s untapped potential lies in embracing the weird, the unexpected, and the downright freaky?
Dive into Freaky Thinking, a radical approach to applied business creativity that transforms your peoples’ minds into powerful growth machines they can apply for your business growth and for their own personal development. Discover how encouraging novel thinking can drive innovation, foster resilience, and lead to breakthrough solutions in today’s competitive and ever-changing landscape. Prepare to rethink the normal in business and learn how to cultivate an environment where freaky ideas fuel extraordinary results. This talk can incorporate some pre-presentation research among your leadership or wider employee base.
Your organisation is a network of valuable knowledge workers performing their roles. It’s structured similarly to a human brain. So, why not become a thinking organisation?
The real value for you exists in your corporate subconscious—what’s not being talked about and done. Make a meal of the value your employees possess by unravelling your, and their, hidden potential.
An annual brain operating system (BrOS) upgrade of all that’s new in applied business thinking to keep your organisation’s thinking in tip-top shape.
Building curiosity and a wider perspective is a key aim to develop our Leaders – your session especially resonated with its focused and purposeful messages delivered in an engaging and amusing way. We will definitely recommend you to others!
Thank you, Chris, for sharing your inspiring and thought-provoking insights around Freaky Thinking. You delivered a really powerful message around thinking about your thinking, which ties in perfectly to the aspiration for our colleagues to be courageous.
