Creating Serendipity: Proven Techniques to Spark Breakthrough Ideas and Good Fortune
In this revelatory new book, inventor and innovation authority Julie Austin demystifies the art and science of serendipity—showing you how to engineer “happy accidents” in life and business. You’ll learn why luck isn’t random, how to cultivate the mindset and habits that open you to unanticipated value, and the exact practices inventors rely on to stumble upon life-changing discoveries like penicillin, Velcro, and microwave ovens.
Surviving Disruption: 12 unique innovation strategies to create your ultimate competitive advantage
In this groundbreaking book by inventor and innovation expert: Innovation Keynote Speaker Julie Austin, you’ll discover the three secrets to using disruption and change to your advantage. Disruption is inevitable in every business and industry. Whether you’ve been around for one year or 100 years, something unexpected will change the landscape..
Brainstreaming: How to Think Like an Inventor to generate breakthrough ideas
All innovation begins with great ideas. Some of the most important innovations in history, like Post-it Notes, were discovered by accident. Inventors know the secrets to generating breakthrough ideas on demand—we do it every day.
This book isn’t just about inventing a product. It’s about using the secret techniques that inventors use to generate breakthrough ideas. These ideas could be for products, services, marketing campaigns, advertising strategies, or new business models.
Human Advantage: Think like an inventor in the age of AI.
AI is changing the way we work, create, compete, and solve problems. But while machines can process information faster than ever, they still can’t replace the one thing every organization needs most: original human thinking.
In this timely and energizing keynote, award-winning inventor and innovation expert Julie Austin shows audiences how to use an inventor’s mindset to stay creative, relevant, and valuable in the age of AI. In “The Human Advantage: Think Like an Inventor in the Age of AI” Julie reveals how individuals and organizations can turn technological change into opportunity by asking better questions, spotting hidden problems, creating original ideas, and building a competitive advantage that cannot be copied by a machine.
Audiences will learn how to avoid generic thinking, use AI as a creative partner rather than a crutch, and strengthen the human skills that matter most in a fast-changing world.
