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Christian Byrge

PhD
Full Professor
Vilnius University Business School
Country or state 
Denmark
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Languages 
English,
Danish
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Timezone 
Europe/Copenhagen

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- Unleash Your Team’s Creative Superpowers: Mastering Curiosity and Imagination

- Harness AI’s Limitless Knowledge to Unlock Game-Changing Insights for Your Challenges

- Proven, Research-Backed Tools to Spark New and Transformative Ideas Every Day

Christian Byrge holds a PhD and is a professor of team creativity, creative thinking, and AI-supported innovation. He has authored over 70 publications that have shaped the foundation of numerous books, methodologies, and practical tools widely applied across education, industry, and public administration worldwide.

Christian brings a serious, research-based, practical, and entertaining perspective on how we can all succeed in generating more interesting, motivating, and valuable ideas in our daily work and innovation projects.

With over 19 years of experience as a keynote speaker and more than 100,000 participants worldwide, he has inspired organisations to reach new innovative heights.

He has worked with engineers, lawyers, cleaners, attorneys, salespeople, managers, software developers, geologists, directors, operators, nurses, project managers, entrepreneurs, and educators—along with HR leaders, doctors, farmers, innovators, film producers, and many more.

His previous clients include Novo Nordisk, LEGO, Velux, Grundfos, Maersk, Danfoss, Kompan, Siemens, Novozymes, Warner Music, Zealand Pharma, TotalEnergies, and many others.

Do you want to unlock your creative potential and develop groundbreaking solutions in a constantly evolving world?

Book a keynote or workshop with Christian Byrge and gain inspiration and concrete tools to think innovatively every day.

Current position (1)

Full Professor

Vilnius University Business School

Degrees (3)
PhD in creative thinking and team creativity
Aalborg University
2007 to 2010
Master of Creativity and Innovation
University of Malta
2004 to 2025
Bachelor of honours in International Business Administration
London South Bank University
2003 to 2004

Presentations

Presentations (4)
Unlock Your Best Ideas with AI

Research clearly shows that AI chatbots often surpass most people in developing those “Why didn’t we think of that before?” ideas. Christian Byrge’s own research has been groundbreaking in shaping the modern understanding of AI’s potential to support and enrich human creativity.

We are in an era where those who learn to harness AI to support their creative thinking and innovation processes gain access to limitless ideas and extraordinary competitive advantages. Now, anyone can contribute to developing great ideas—even if you don’t see yourself as one of the creative types.

AI-supported innovation is a game changer, setting new standards for how, how well, and how quickly we can solve challenges in daily life and innovative projects.

But how do we extract good ideas and fresh perspectives from the machine?

Book this keynote with Christian Byrge to gain research-based, practical tools and specific prompts that help you use AI for daily creative thinking and more effective innovation.

Everyone Can Get Great Ideas

Today, innovation is a necessity for survival in most industries. Good ideas have become a gold standard, forming the foundation for unique competitive advantages, more efficient work processes, stronger user relationships, and better services and products.

But can we generate ideas on demand? Can we shift our perspective on problems precisely when needed? Can we plan to be open to new ideas that challenge our team’s current logic? And can we unleash our imagination without fear of ridicule?

Yes! Christian Byrge has helped hundreds of teams with effective and easy-to-use tools to develop more motivating and valuable ideas, gain entirely new perspectives on problems, and explore ideas with a curious and open mind.

Book this keynote to kickstart your creative mindset and teamwork. You will gain a common language for creativity, a deeper understanding of its value, and concrete creative methods you can start using immediately.

Team Creativity

How can we make curiosity and imagination fundamental elements of our team culture? How can we create environments that empower us to develop, propose, and implement new ideas with confidence and competence? And how can we ensure a broad diversity of ideas, leading to stronger decision-making when tackling complex problems?

Christian Byrge is an expert in creating:
- Safe, creative team environments that encourage the exploration of important problems.
- Effective, integrated innovation processes that lead to new and valuable solutions.
- Motivational support and reward structures that encourage testing new ideas.
- Systematic training in innovative skills, creative confidence, and a curiosity-driven culture.
- Inclusive idea systems that ensure the best ideas are identified and implemented.

Book this keynote to unlock and nurture your team’s creative superpowers—and apply them to your everyday tasks and innovative projects.

Your Creative Genius

Christian Byrge was one of the driving forces behind the Creative Genius programs (2013-2020), where participants from over 15 countries and 38 industries developed solutions to complex challenges.

These programs produced breakthroughs in fields ranging from conveyor belts, anti-corruption, and football training to vacation home rentals, in-flight entertainment, public hearings, showrooms, furniture design, and recruitment. The work also covered disposable cups, crisis communication, sustainable fashion design, high-conflict divorces, and much more.

Christian is one of the world’s leading experts in thinking far beyond the ideas we typically generate.

Book this keynote and get inspired on how to develop and pursue the most original and groundbreaking ideas. And gain insights into how AI’s immense innovative potential can be combined with your industry-specific experience to identify and develop the best ideas for your next big breakthrough.

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Books & Articles (2)

Everyday Innovator: Four powerful habits to cultivate team creativity
BIS Publishers,
2023
70+ publications on creative thinking and team creativity
Various publishers
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Expertise (60)

Other
Business
Education
Leadership
applied creativity Co-creative Teams business and creativity business creativity Children and Creativity commercial creativity Confident creativity creative creative business Creative Concept Development creative confidence creative culture Creative Development Creative Entrepreneurship Creative environment Creative Genius Creative Innovation creative leadership Creative Learning Creative methods creative mindset creative people Creative Practice Creative Problem Solving Creative Process Creative Product Management Branch Innovation Business and Innovation Business Innovation Collaborative Innovation combinatorial innovation concepts and innovation corporate innovation Consciously Leading Innovative Change Incremental Innovation Inclusion and Innovation Highly Innovative Schools Fostering Innovation Faster and Better Innovation Enterprise Innovation Engineer Like an Innovator Encouraging Creativity and Innovation educational innovation education innovation Driving Innovation Driving Business Results Through Innovative Thinking disruptive innovation Developing Innovators Design Innovation Entrepreneurship democratic innovation Customer innovations Culture of innovation Culture Innovation Culture for Innovation Cultural innovation Creativity and Innovation

Clients

Novo Nordisk
LEGO
Velux
Grundfos
Maersk
Danfoss
KOMPAN
Novozymes
Zealand Pharma
TotalEnergies
and many more...

Reviews

Testimonials (10)
  • An excellent example of pedagogical professionalism combined with very deep knowledge of the matter. Keep doing the same way, combining psychological tricks with perfectly prepared & structured material. Despite the large volume of material presented, it was easy to digest, was clearly understood through exercises on how to apply, and was of high value as very relevant material for everyday tasks. Thank you!
    Team leader, Danske Bank
  • It was just perfect and so inspiring. Already looking forward to the next 'assignments' in order to stay curious and creative.
    Monika, Maersk
  • It was completely different from anything offered before and I think I can speak on behalf of everyone when I say the energy/content/presentation by Christian was amazing.
    Amira, Maersk
  • One of the best training i have attended!! Thank you! Stay open minded, stay creative!
    Sirikul, Maersk
  • I took SOOOOOO MUCH out of it. I always thought I’m not creative at all - compared to my friends - but we humans are capable of learning EVERYTHING! Super inspiring day and many ideas in my head how to change upcoming meetings in my team and get creativity flowing!
    Anna, Maersk
  • It is so inspiring and it stimulates both creativity, curiosity and the ability to be open towards new ideas and alternative perspectives.
    Safety consultant, Novo Nordisk
  • Excellent researcher and lecturer, Christian Byrge is one of leading figures in today's creativity research and application. Christian offers a practical hands-on focus on creativity training, adaptable to any context and area of business, with solid research basis and large international experience. He gives excellent speeches and is highly motivating, with a pro-active and optimist mindset that invites to take part in any activity he is engaged with.
    Liisa Hänninen, Professor at Complutense University
  • My team has become far more positive about working on complex problems.
    Team leader, Novo Nordisk
  • Christian Byrge is the excellent developer, researcher, trainer and coach. He achieves the exceptional results under the hard time pressure and also has strong intercultural communication skills.
    Povilas Sapkauskas, Manager at National Library of Lithuania
  • We are glad to work with Christian Byrge at Film University Startup-Center. Christian has been mentoring us fostering creativity for innovative creators and he has hosted several courses to build creative skills. And with his expertship he has been a great supporter in designing and realizing the MOVE! Ideafest. Thanks, we are 100% content!
    Jörn Krug, Head of Start-up Service at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
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