Throw a generous amount of love for the creative process and an equal quantity of relevant international experience as a trainer and facilitator in creative thinking in the mix. What do you get? An ideal blend of passion and knowledge that will give your audience the proper gusto for creativity and innovation in no time.

“Karl is the perfect host or speaker for congresses or any other type of event that requires a sense of humour, inspiration and participation. Karl is genuinely interested and knows how to connect (to an) audience” - IIA Congress 2010

Recent assignments:
Vebego X-border Innovation Event (closing speaker)
IIA “All On Board” Congress 2010 (host, moderator)
MPI Educational Revue (keynote speaker)

> Click here to contact us for further info or booking inquiries

Creative Process Facilitation
You provide the challenge and the team, we facilitate you towards the solution you didn’t know you could come up with. KarlRaats.com has extensive international experience with a broad range of creative challenges in NGO’s, governmental organisations, education, SME’s and multinationals.

Creative Process Training
No innovation or break-through ideas without the basics of applied creative thinking. Your customized Creatieve Proces Training is an intense experience: simple, but not easy. Fun, but confrontational. Active, yet silencing, while taking you through:

• Pitfalls and opportunities of your perception.
• Regognizing, controling and tagerting your judgement.
• Generating new ideas, whenever, where ever.
• Moulding ideas into actionable reality.

> Click here to contact us for further info or booking inquiries

Creativity taken too lightly, weighs down on innovation. Our idea champion & train-the-facilitator programs immerse you or your inhouse candidates in both the creative and facilitative process. Customized to meet your standards, but never sub-standard to our own.

Idea Champions
This program makes you the ideal person to bounce ideas off, which is exactly what seedling ideas need to grow into the change your organisation is looking for. This program consists of a base training in the creative process, online coaching towards creative awareness and use of hands-on techniques and a round-up training based on your specific needs.

Train-the-Facilitator
This highly customizable three stage training consists of: an intense training of the creative process itself on both a base- and meta-level, training in facilitation combined with online coaching and 360° video feedback and a round-up training. This program is not for the faint of heart.

> Click here to contact us for further info or booking inquiries

In essence, Mindmapping is the most brain friendly way of letting your thoughts flow in and out your head and heart. It’s natural, fun and mindblowingly efficient and effective. Learning how to create a proper mindmap is nothing less than reconnecting to your unique way of formulating thoughts and working with ideas. As a Buzan Licensed Instructor, Karl masters mindmapping the way it was meant by its originator, Tony Buzan, which guarantees you a journey you are sure to love every step of the way. During your Buzan Mindmap training, you will learn how to:

• get the basics down and find your personal Mindmap style
• prepare a speech in no time
• structure your thoughts regardless how chaotic you think you are
• brainstorm on your own and with a team
• share knowledge, with knowledge at the core, not ego
• study better and improve your memory

> Click here to contact us for further info or booking inquiries

“If opportunity doens’t come knocking, build a door." Dr. Edward de Bono
It’s the opening quote of the de Bono course in Lateral Thinking. And it hits the nail right on the head. Lateral Thinking is a set of thinking tools that allows you to think and act creatively throughout your entire organisation. Lateral Thinking:

• frees your individual or collective creative energy
• turns creative thought into practical and actionable change
• gives you the necessary confidence to think up different and better solutions in any given situation
• teaches you to come up with clever solutions that would normally be ignored by logic
• offers you a commonly understood set of techniques and language

If your business challenge needs a lightbulb moment, Lateral Thinking is the switch. Dr. de Bono’s Lateral Thinking is a two day, hands-on course. Each participant receives the official de Bono Thinking Systems +120 pages handout.

> Click here to contact us for further info or booking inquiries