Executive Director of Analysis, Christopher Hire, trained and leads a team of 20 professionally trained analysts who work on 2thinknow projects. Hire is a specialist in the topic of Innovation Cities™ (place-specific innovation), data analytics and modelling innovation processes (industry specific segment innovation for government and the private sector), having modeled the historical and current innovation processes for clients.
His innovation work has been featured in New York Times (Freakonomics), Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Reuters, Financial Post, ABC Radio, Entrepreneur Magazine, China Daily, La Stampa, 24/7 Wall Street, Huffington Post and a variety of international newspapers across the world in languages from German to French to Spanish to Korean.
Hire has taught for 18 years a series of technology and training topics to all branches of Australian government, banks and corporations as well as international governments and corporations His training clients have included Australian Dept. of Defence, Australian Federal Court, Lend Lease, Kellogg’s, Pfizer, JP Morgan, Comm Bank, Zurich Insurance, UAE Government, Maybank, HBL, 3M, Victorian Parliament, Toyota and many others. Attendees have ranged from CEOs and General Management to Judges and Ministers and entrepreneurs to professionals.
In just one example, he conducted the first Victorian government social media training for the State of Victoria 9 years ago, and has taught over 400 organizations worldwide, including coaching overseas award winners in banking and government.
Hire established the Innovation Cities™ Program in 2007 from original 2005 research, and has grown the Innovation Cities™ Index into the world leading ranking of cities as innovation economies, followed by over 70% of cities over 1 million population. Cities data analytics projects he has overseen include Samsung (Korea) and IESE, as well as for the top 3 of the premier management consulting firms worldwide.
Christopher Hire has the experience in teaching government and corporate groups from 5 to 5000, and knows how to make training both absorbing fun and experience-based. His goal is that you will learn concepts through experiences and activities (not just listening to the lecturer). This suits independent professional audiences and modern diverse groups, with an emphasis on team implementation and singularly brilliant ideas.
Uniquely Christopher can explain how other governments, companies and countries succeeded in innovation from a historical and current perspective, making him perfectly placed to understand and explain how real innovations actually occur in small markets or large networked markets, and how to manage the process of innovation.
Hire has been trainer, speaker and consultant for a large number of corporations and government on the innovation process, design thinking, and innovation project management globally. Yet he is down to earth and friendly and very experienced with diverse audiences.
Christopher lives in Melbourne, Australia and is passionate about innovation, but also good food, travel and sharing with people of all cultures and backgrounds to create more innovation. When not teaching or analyzing Christopher likes a bit of cricket, a quiet beverage and a friendly chat.