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Chris Thomason

End-to-End Service Design Lead at Lloyds Banking Group

London, United Kingdom

I design Freaky Thinking experiences that empower employees in medium and large organizations to think more creatively. This enables them to uncover opportunities for meaningful improvement and implement innovative, practical solutions. This works for them both in their work life and their personal life.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: London, UK
Speaking Topics: Unleash your Freaky Factor: How Powerful Thinking Unlocks Business Brilliance, Untangling Spaghetti: Navigating the Twists of Creative Thought & Growt

Speaking Fee $8,000 (In-Person), $3,500 (Virtual)

Chris Thomason Points
Academic 0
Author 454
Influencer 8
Speaker 18
Entrepreneur 0
Total 480

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Featured Videos

Freaky Thinking: How to think better at work
October 19, 2024

Featured Topics

Unleash your Freaky Factor: How Powerful Thinking Unlocks Business Brilliance.

• What if the key to your organization’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. (Audience – the top x00 leadership team).

Untangling Spaghetti: Navigating the Twists of Creative Thought and a Growth Mindset.

• Your organization is a network of valuable knowledge workers performing their roles. It’s structured similarly to a human brain. So, why not become a thinking organization?
• 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.
This talk can incorporate some pre-presentation research among your employees. (Audience – all levels of the organization).

2025 Brain Operating System upgrade.

An annual brain operating system (BrOS) upgrade of all that’s new in applied business thinking to keep your organization’s thinking in tip-top shape.
Run this early in every year. (Audience – all levels of the organization).

Company Information

Company Type: Enterprise
Business Unit: Design
Theatre: United Kingdom
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 50,001-100,000
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Business Strategy 30.04
Change Management 30.17
Creativity 62.48
Customer Experience 30.26
Design Thinking 49.43
Innovation 41.18
Management 42.02

Industry Experience

Agriculture & Mining
Automotive
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Engineering & Construction
Financial Services & Banking
Telecommunications
Travel & Transportation

Publications

27 Article/Blogs
“Changin’ Times” Require a Change in Thinking
Training Industry
September 06, 2023

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Tags: Change Management, Creativity, Design Thinking

BRAINSTORMING IS TURNING 70 – TIME TO RETIRE IT
HR Director
August 07, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Brainstorming Is 70 Years Old – Time For Something New?
Project Manager Today
August 04, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Brainstorming is Past its Use by Date
Technologgie
August 03, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

Why Brainstorming Does Not Work in the Modern World?
Psychreg
August 02, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Why Businesses Should Encourage Staff to Walk Their Dogs
Technologgie
July 10, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

5 Tips to Help You Select and Take Forward Your Best Ideas
Technologgie
July 04, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

How Walking the Dog Can Be Good for Business (And Your Mental Health)
Psychreg
May 30, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Boost Your Ability to Think Creatively About Your Business
Startacus
May 17, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

Build Confidence in Your Ability to Think Creatively
Technologgie
May 03, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

How to Make Creative Thinking Second Nature
Psychreg
May 03, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Fire Up Innovative Thinking Across Your Organization
Training Industry
April 18, 2023

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Tags: Change Management, Creativity, Design Thinking

Getting the Best from your Creative Ideas
Startacus
March 31, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

5 Tips to Turn Creative Ideas into Actionable Solutions
Psychreg
March 30, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Hybrid working increases creativity
Training Journal
March 16, 2023

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Tags: Change Management, Creativity, Design Thinking

How to Unleash Creative Thinking in Business
Technologgie
March 09, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

Creative Thinking in Business Takes Work
Psychreg
March 08, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Unleash Your Creative Thinking in 5 Steps
Startacus
March 08, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

HOW TO UNLEASH CREATIVE THINKING IN YOUR BUSINESS
HR Director
March 07, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

How L&D Leaders Can Unleash Creative Thinking
Training Industry
March 06, 2023

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Tags: Change Management, Creativity, Design Thinking

How ‘killer questions’ can unleash employees’ creativity
Personnel Today
March 01, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

A NEW APPROACH TO WORKPLACE THINKING
HR Director
February 20, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

Freaky Thinking Could Boost Your Business
Startacus
February 15, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

Why Businesses Need to Harness Freaky Thinking
Technologgie
February 13, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

You Need to Unleash Your Creativity to Grow Your Business. Here’s How to Harness the Power of ‘Freaky’ Thinking
Psychreg
February 10, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

7 Books
Supercharged Thinking
Amazon
June 01, 2024
QUESTIONS THAT MAKE YOU THINK. ANSWERS THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
Would you like sharper, more powerful, and more creative thinking skills that will add significant personal value to both your home and work lives?
Supercharged Thinking delivers this through 15 thinking mechanisms which help you overcome any problems you face, and to develop new opportunities that will change your life.
With smartphones, social media and streaming services ensuring there’s always so much to occupy our lives, we’ve lost that spare time to think meaningfully about life issues. And we’re also losing the ability to think for ourselves in a way that keeps pace with the level of change occurring all around us. As our lives and the issues arising in them become ever-more complex, it seems we don’t run our lives anymore—our lives run us.
Would you like a better life in some way? Taking back control to do the things you want to do—not necessarily what you have to do. Supercharged Thinking puts you back in charge and enables you to have a better life for yourself—and to live a better life for those around you.
Supercharged Thinking is better thinking for a better life.

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

FREAKY THINKING TEMPLATES
Self-published
October 01, 2022

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Management

EXCELLENCE IN FREAKY THINKING: Leading Team Thinking In Your Organization
Self-published
October 01, 2022
Excellence In Freaky Thinking is the follow-up to the first Freaky Thinking book—and will boost your thinking skills to even greater levels.
Whether you’re an individual employee; a manager of a team; or a leader of a larger area—you’ll understand how to achieve better thinking in your organization.

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Management

FREAKY THINKING: Thinking That Delivers A Dazzling Difference
Self-published
October 01, 2022
The most valuable asset you possess is your mind, and Freaky Thinking is a new way of applying your mind to deliver dazzling workplace thinking to get better ideas that address your organization’s big issues.
The problems and opportunities that organizations face are getting ever more challenging. They exist in an environment of uncertainty which makes them more-prevalent and more-difficult to identify—and harder to address with today’s available approaches.
This is where a different thinking is needed. Freaky Thinking. Thinking that is unconventional; edgy; and unexpected. Thinking that anyone—at any level—in any organization can do. And be recognized for!

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Management

The Idea Generator Templates
Amazon
August 22, 2018
The Idea Generator Templates are the companion to The Idea Generator book. They help you create a repository for all your winning ideas by keeping your templates all in one book.

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation

The Idea Generator
Pearson
October 03, 2016
Brainstorming is the go-to method for generating ideas and solutions in teams, but it’s been proven to be ineffective for over 50 years. The Idea Generator gives you 15 simple, easy-to-use tools that can be used and reused for a variety of purposes to help you generate ideas quickly and focus on developing only the best ideas.
• Find a more effective, productive, quicker alternative to brainstorming new ideas.
• Develop and shape your ideas into winning results on your own – or in a group.
• Achieve more insightful thinking on strategic opportunities.
• Quickly find solutions to the business issues that affect you.
• Utilise the time saved to share your best ideas and produce game-changing solutions in a team workshop.

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation

The Delicate Force
Amazon
September 25, 2014
Reece Tassicker has a dream about a number he knows he needs to remember. When messages for him start appearing in books, he learns that his future activities are being predicted – to the precise minute. And that someone is mysteriously using this knowledge to influence events in his life. As Reece starts to out-think the people who can control his life, he learns there are chinks in our reality that allow us discrete glimpses behind the true nature of the universe. Because our reality isn’t quite as real as we think it is. He develops new thinking techniques to help understand what’s happening to him. But as Reece Tassicker gets closer to the truth, the mysterious individuals decide to eliminate him from their future plans. Permanently. The Delicate Force is an unusual half-fact, half-fiction thriller with a remarkable non-fiction ending. The facts are so extraordinary that it needs a fictional plot to help you to believe they really are true. Read The Delicate Force and be prepared to think about reality differently - for the rest of your life.

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Tags: Design Thinking

2 Book Reviews
Freaky Thinking: thinking that delivers a dazzling difference
Business Leader
May 25, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

New Book ‘Freaky Thinking’ Aims to Challenge Readers Change the Way They Think
Psychreg
January 26, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

1 Influencer Newsletter
The Problem with ‘Business as Usual’ Meetings
LinkedIn
February 07, 2025
The sun rises. The sun sets. Inefficient meetings take place in large organizations.
Two of these things can't be changed, but the third can. However, when did you last make a radical change to your meetings?
Today, let the sun rise. And make a valuable change to your meetings before it sets....

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

2 Media Interviews
Freaky Thinking: thinking that delivers a dazzling difference
Business Leader
May 17, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

Freaky Thinking- a converstaion with Chris Thomason
Spotify Independent Minds podcast
March 01, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

1 Miscellaneous
The Thinking Edge
Substack
December 21, 2024
Regular updates on thinking about our thinking...

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

2 Profiles
Why Brainstorming Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
Executive Support magazine
September 25, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

10 Tips to Boost Your Ability to Think Creatively at Work
Executive Support magazine
May 25, 2023

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

1 Speaking Engagement
How to think better at work | Chris Thomason | TEDxReigate
TEDx
September 30, 2024
Freaky Thinking is the first new approach to thinking in the workplace in the last 70 years. Freaky Thinking states that to stimulate our creativity we should be doing an ‘undemanding’ activity while we think about our issue – this is an approach backed by science.
Brainstorming is a dated and inefficient process for creative thinking, while Freaky Thinking is an alternative approach that can be used by individuals or groups in the home or work environment to identify new ideas.

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Innovation

5 Webinars
Guided Business Thinking session 06
Patreon
August 01, 2021
In this Guided Business Thinking session we explore how to generate super-profits for your business...

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Tags: Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Innovation

Guided Business Thinking session 05
Patreon
May 31, 2021
In this Guided Business Thinking session we explore two areas in depth:
- Understanding some things about your business that you may not have considered before
- How to dominate your market and protect your customer base.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Innovation

Guided Business Thinking session 04
Patreon
May 01, 2021
In this Guided Business Thinking session we’ll be exploring two areas in depth:
- How customers see your business, and
- How to boost your business in a week

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Tags: Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Innovation

Guided Business Thinking session 02
Patreon
February 09, 2021
In this Guided Business Thinking session we’re:
- Finding ways to boost your customer word-of-mouth marketing
- Understanding how to minimise failure demand to increase profits, and
- Focusing attention on your business improvement; your customers – and on your own use of time

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Tags: Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Innovation

Guided Business Thinking session 03
Patreon
February 09, 2021
In this Guided Business Thinking session we’ll explore:
- The value you can get from Consumer Surplus
- Why you should love your customers
- The benefits of segmentation, and
- Applying sports metaphors to business growth

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Tags: Customer Experience, Design Thinking, Innovation

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1 Article/Blog
Your YOUniverse Where it's all about you and your imagination…
Thinkers360
October 05, 2024

Imagination is a powerful thing.

It picks you up from the small room you're in. Floats you out of the life you live every day. And gently settles you into a world where anything can happen—just the way you want.

You see yourself scoring the winning goal for your country. Receiving an award for your achievement. Scooping the lottery jackpot. And meeting your perfect life partner.

This is where everything happens for you, in just the way you like. It’s your YOUniverse. Where you are the supreme overlord; overlady; or over-I-prefer-not-to-say. It’s like you’re on the edge of something big. Something wonderful. Something that you believe you deserve. And it can all feel so real.

For a while…

But then you come back to the world you know.

A world where nothing has changed. Where today is the same as yesterday—and where tomorrow will be the same as today. You look around, and you’re still sitting in the same chair. With the same worries. The same doubts. The same life.

But it’s nice to dream. To escape from reality for a short while.

However, while your dreams are in your imagination, not everything you imagine needs to exist only in your dreams. They’re dreams because the gap between your reality and what you imagine is so immense.

What if you close that gap?

What if you start to imagine some changes that are closer to your reality? Changes that will make a noticeable difference to your life.

When you do this, you aren’t dreaming any more—you’re applying practical imagination. Where your imagination can materially impinge on your daily life.

When you engage your practical imagination, your YOUniverse changes. Because from now on, if you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

Freaky Thinking is about practical imagination. Improving the way you think. Making the negative associations you have with the word change evolve into the positive associations with the term progress.  

For the truth is, it’s not the world that holds you back from making progress. It’s you.

You tell yourself so many things in your life are solid and immovable. But they’re not. In the dark, we tend to see shadows that make us nervous because we aren’t sure what they are. Shine a light there and the shadows disappear. The worry evaporates like a snowflake landing on a flame.

Freaky Thinking is a fresh and powerful approach to thinking where you want new and meaningful ideas. Especially on issues that are of value to you. It’s an approach that allows you to point the brilliance of your thinking into the recesses of your life. To illuminate the fact that rather than be devoid of anything useful, intriguing opportunities exist for you there.

There’s light where once there was shadow. And when you realise you can apply the process anywhere, rather than being a feeble flashlight you point—it becomes a brilliant shine you walk towards.

And when you walk towards a sun, the shadows are always behind you.

You'll be amazed at how many things in your life can be changed, as there are very few things that are truly fixed. And those that are, can be dealt with by your own movement and flexibility. Go around them. Take a different route. Look in a different direction.

Or just ignore them and act as if they don’t exist. Ignoring someone or something is sometimes the easiest way to get it out of your mind.

And when you apply your mind to it, there are countless creative ways to avoid something that was previously a blocker for you. And potentially to see a new opportunity just beyond that former blocker.

Back to dreaming…

Your old dream YOUniverse is always there for you whenever you want it. And it will always be perfect for you. Except for one problem—time stands still in it. You never need to commit to moving on. For in a perfect world, you want to wait for the perfect time.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect time!

You are reading this in your reality, not in a dream. The perfect time for you to act in converting your dream world into your reality never comes.

To break out of your current life, stop waiting for the perfect time. Instead, you have to know when the best time is to take the first step.

And the best time is when you make the decision that you want to change your mind and change your thinking. And that best time is right now.

There’s a simple process I’m going to share with you to help you make this change. And you know it so well already!

  1. Pose a bold and powerful question that, when answered well, will deliver great value for you.
  2. Then answer it brilliantly.

While you may spend much of your working life focusing on finding the answers. Stop!

Take a different first step. Spend some time posing your first ever killer question.

Time to start thinking for a change…

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Tags: Creativity, Design Thinking, Management

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