THE JESTER The most important icon in the old royal courts was the Jester. The Jester spoke the truth. the jester inspired the Emperor, had the advantage of being the innovator, the rebel, the voice of thruth and visions, the most creative icon of the kingdom. The jester helped the ministers to communicate sophisticated issues and smooth difficult messages.

 

Itai Talmi is a modern-day Jester. The misfit and rebel among the consultants. Itai brings ideas you have not heard a hundred times. The original ones combimed with radical solutions and outstanding innovative thinking, always communicating the hard lines in soft and elegant ways. Itai enable leaders to break locked and mundane patterns of thinking and acting.

 

My role is to inspire, challenge and transform current thinking with daring thinking, ideas, strategies and orginal ways to make them happen. Itai's work is focusing on exploring and seizing valuable possible futures, focusing on widening and deepening the imagination, strategically, beyond conventional innovation methods. Definitely not your typical business or innovation consultant.

 

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Itai Talmi is a pioneer of futures design in Israel. Itai works around the world in multiple project dealing with startegic futures, with private and public entities.

Itai specialises in R&D Innovation projects, special strategic missions, and Strategic/imaginative advisory.

Itai helps individuals, teams, organisations, and brands discover, create, and secure futures worth aspiring for, exploring and develop possible futures, and utilise the chosen desired futures.

Itai Advocates for Humanity-centred futures and futures literacy.

A Strategic Futurist, buiness and brand Evolution expert. Strategic imagineer, innovation & strategy consultant,

experimentalist, entrepreneur, lecturer,

 

Itai is leading BORN PARTNERS that was founded as a worldly-collaborative futures innovation R&D firm in 2010, Based on a strong network of partners globally, and early years were mostly focused on large corporate brand innovation and customer experience projects.

 

BORN PARTNERS is an independent project firm focusing on Strategically imagining possible and viable future worlds, future evolutions, evolutionary phases, abundant future possibilities, new service situations, new consumption spaces, experiential planning, and most important: Futures World-building - Strategically imagination of what could be and how does it look, feels, and behave.

 

Together with a vast brain-trust global and local network, the unique experimental R&D firm work brought new ways from alternative fields such as Speculative and Systems design, foresight, artistic, alternative strategic and strategic design research approaches into the new rapidly-changing world of innovation. And, started to embed these into new and existing projects, with great success and happy enriched clients.

 

BORN PARTNERS works for some of the world’s biggest organizations like Markets.com, Orange, C2, GAP, VIM, THNK School for Creative Leadership, Amsterdam Municipality, Carnival cruise lines, Holmes Place, and more.

 

Over the years, BORN PARTNERS firm and Itai Talmi, has evolved into a Human-centered futures R&D firm. Itai has gained critical acclaim for creating work that act as guided expeditions into the chaotic wilderness of our new world, culture paradigms, cities, consumers, citizens, technological shifts, provoking innovators to discover and develop alternative futures scenarios, experiences, prototypes, and new value sources.

 

 

 

ITAI TALMI BACKGROUND

1. Led projects for Fortune 500 companies, NGO'S, cities (like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Herzliya) countries (Netherlands, Germany, Israel, Caribbean islands) next to academy, and special projects for entrepreneurs. Among my clients: C2, Markets.com, THNK, Vodafone, Amsterdam Municipality, Orange, Carnival cruises, GAP, Holmes Place, VIM, Keystone, and more.

2. Over a worldwide professional journey over 30 years, worked deeply in various categories such as: consumer brands, financial, retail, technology, education, NGOs, cities, social and cultural institutions.
3. A Founding-participant and an Ambassador at THNK School of Creative Leadership since 2011.

4. Studied In Melbourne, Amsterdam, and in London: Phenomenology, Art, media studies, design strategy, business & marketing strategy, Innovation and Brand management. Mostly studying by working. By doing.

5. Itai lectures worldwide, teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, post-normal business development, and alternative design practices, for both MBA and design students in various academic institutions such as: Shenkar, Coleman college, HIT, SKMB, IAF.

6. Activity is divided into Commercial and Social. Next to client work and own initiatives, itai always involved in some kind of social activity. From Hosting the Global children Designathon, to consulting and mentoring young next generation entrepreneurs, to developing Future-readiness workshops for future generations, lecturing and teaching. That what keeps his energy flowing.

 

Reach direcly at:

+972547421821

itai@bornpartners.co

Currently, based in Tel Aviv, Israel.