Focus on: Dimis Michaelides
Nicosia, Cyprus
Consultant, author, speaker, facilitator and magician, Dimis combines his unique talents and business experience to inspire people around the world to become more effective leaders, creators, innovators, and strategists.
Dimis is Managing Director of Performa Consulting and a faculty member at the Cyprus International Institute of Management. He published The Art of Innovation: Integrating Creativity in Organizations© in 2007 and has developed the Art of Innovation model to help organizations and individuals achieve their full innovation potential.
Dimis has extensive international experience in General Management, Marketing and Finance — at the World Bank (Washington), Zeneca (Paris), Council of Europe (Paris) and Laiki Cyprialife (Nicosia). He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (B.Sc), London Business School (MBA), Sussex University (MA) and INSEAD (Leadership in Organizations).
He has delivered keynotes and workshops at major global creativity events including CPSI (USA), American Creativity Association, CREA (Europe), European Conference for Creativity & Innovation and Africa Creativity Conference. He is fluent in Greek, English and French, operational in Spanish and Portuguese.
Dimis loves his wife and son, mother and brother, music and magic, art and history, film and theater, Osborn and Parnes, Penn and Teller and his dog, Goya.
Dimis Michaelides has presented:
- Leading Innovation: Real world situations in a playful simulation (2012)