Helene Cahen

Atheist, Blogger, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Foodie, Idea generator, Investor, Parent, Single, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Helene Cahen, M.S., is an innovation consultant, trainer, facilitator, author and speaker with over 30 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is a successful speaker whose TEDx talk on high performance collaboration for teams was highly received. She is also the author of Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation teams. She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting, where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture. She is also a coach for the Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Program. In addition she is an advisor to non-profits and a trainer at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Trained in creative problem solving and design thinking, Helene received an M.S. in Creativity and Change Leadership from the Center for Applied Imagination at Buffalo State University (SUNY) Buffalo. She also has a business degree from Sciences-Po Paris, a top French Business School.

I love new ideas and experiences! I am passionate about innovation and creativity and always looking for ways to help people and organizations solve problems in novel ways., I also support and promote women leadership as an advisor, investor and volunteer.

Women lead business in the early stages are doing much better once they get funding than their men lead businesses because women have learned to work with thought contraint and limited resources .

Assessing creativity in teams, Business Model Canvas, Coaching innovation, Facilitation, High performance teams, Ideator and innovator, Innovation Consulting, Non Profit Board Service, Training

I love TED talks, conferences and events for inspiration and fantastic story telling. I often joke that TED and TED conferences are my addiction, very healthy even if expensive! Ted had been a place for connection and inspiration and I co-lead a TEDxYouth at my children school and a TEDxWomen in 2022 so we could meet in community when TED Women was taking a break. And through a virtual TED event I found a mentor who invited me to do a TEDx talk!

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