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17.08.2010
Parlez-vous créatif?
How to manage creatives? Robert Gerlach will give a keynote at the Trendforum 2010 in Munich in November.
03.07.2010
Summer break for Evolution
We are taking one month off to refresh and to evolve.
28.06.2010
trendgipfel 2010, Frankfurt
Keynote about innovation culture. Key findings: CEOs tend to have more ideas at the working place than employees. (10.9%/6.4%).
19.06.2010
Filinics. How managers can learn from children.
IQudo is offering a one-day-seminar at the Creativity-School-Center BIP in Leipzig on September, 29th, 2010.
19.05.2010
Creative Skills.
Keynote at the Trevios Idea management convention, June, 17th 2010. Neu-Ulm, Germany.
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18.05.2010
Why ideas do not pop up while being at work?
Upcoming keynote about the perfect surrounding for ideas to arise at the IHK Koblenz in Germany on the 1st of June.
30.04.2010
Idea Generation Survey: final results
Where do ideas arise and why not while being at work?
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29.03.2010
Survey: idea development 2.0
Where do ideas arise? And why not at work?
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08.03.2010
Survey: idea generation 2.0
IQudo initiates the 2nd survey about ideas and how they arise.
24.02.2010
trendgipfel 2010
Robert Gerlach is giving a keynote about "Creative Skills" on the 24th of June in Frankfurt, Germany.
01.02.2010
Test-drive the new IQudo!
New website is on. New: The Creative Culture Program
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15.12.2009
Winter Camp
IQudo takes off to reflect and refresh for 2010.
04.12.2009
Here today, gone tomorrow!
How to choose the right projects in turbulent times? Robert Gerlach will give insights about project management from a creative point of view. Date: Multi-Projectmanagement 2010, 26th-27th of April, Munich
16.11.2009
Play! - don't work
Lean Product Development: How to creative more ideas with less work? Robert Gerlach will give a lecture about playfulness. Date: Summit Product Development. 9th-10th of March, Zurich
02.11.2009
How to build up a creative culture?
Robert Gerlach holds lectures on corporate creativity at the Grande École de Communication et Marketing, Sup the Pub, Paris.
20.10.2009
How will shopping be like in 2020?
Together with 36 students of interior architecture we were in search of futuristic shop concepts. Client: Lidl.
19.10.2009
Where do ideas arise?
Why do ideas always pop up while having a shower. Robert Gerlach gives an interview on Radio Arabella, Munich.
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why am I creative?

Robert Gerlach is a member of the German Speakers Association

"Why am I creative in one company and not in others?!" A question that lead Robert Gerlach around the world and after two years of R&D he created IQudo. He founded the academy for creative intelligence 2006 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Having studied industrial engineering he started his career in New York 1992 at the advertising agency Kirshenbaum & Bond. Being attracted by the creative department, he designed his first art work for brands like Pittsburgh Brewing Company and Revlon. He finally got captured by advertising at Chiat/Day, the agency who launched the Apple Macintosh. It is there where he finally fell in love with something that is commonly called work. For 15 years he spent his days creating at ad agencies in Paris, CLM/BBDO and Hamburg Springer & Jacoby, for his own clients and together with two Taiwanese designers in Barcelona. In 1999 he developed his first men's collection which was introduced in shops in Germany and Spain next to brands like: Prada, Gucci, Kenzo, Hugo and Dsquared2.

In 2003 the Star Alliance crossed his plans. An around-the-world ticket lead him from Rio de Janeiro to the Dalai Lama in North India. The peak experience of the one-year journey was a stay at a Buddhist monastery in North Thailand. For 40 days he did nothing and he called it the most intensive experience in his life.

"Why am I creative in one company and not in others?!" The question had always haunted him. He wrote his thesis about "intercultural motivation of employees" which was recognized as the best paper of the semester. Today he holds lectures on Corporate Creativity at the Grande École de Communication et Marketing Sup de Pub in Paris and helps companies with the IQudo 8 principles of innovative cultures to develop an inspiring atmosphere.

Robert Gerlach is a member of the German Speakers Association. He speaks five languages: German, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.

Awards

Art Directors Club Deutschland, 2004
New York Festivals, 2001
Deutscher Designer Club, 2000
The Globals, New York, 1999

Further education

TA 101, Transactional Analysis, Stuttgart
Creativity and peak performance, Dr. Strunz, Timmendorfer Strand
Journey into Healing, Chopra Center, Carlsbad California
Perfect Health, Chopra Center, Carlsbad California

 

112 style fashion collection - unfortunately not available anymore.
112 style fashion collection - unfortunately not available anymore. Design: Kuopei, R. Gerlach, Photos: Tom Beyersdorffer