CREATOVATION
Creatovation
Dr Karl Thomas
Through Creatovation, Karl collaborates with a diverse range of stakeholders, focusing on leadership development, strategy, and innovation. As the Academic Lead in Innovation and Creativity at Trinity College Dublin’s Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace, he delivered advanced material to both academic cohorts, including Post-Doctoral students, and corporate clients.
Karl also leads and supports several corporate programmes across Ireland and internationally, emphasising critical and strategic thinking, innovation and leadership.
As a Design Sprint facilitator and mentor at innovation events and hackathons, he provides consultancy and coaching to startups, established organisations and business leaders, guiding them to think differently and embrace innovative solutions.
Karl’s work centers on cultivating leaders who value emotional intelligence, reflective communication, psychologically safe collaboration, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving as essential components of the business and innovation ecosystem.
He holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin, where his research focused on creativity, critical thinking, and cultural perceptions of creative agency. Additionally, Karl has earned a Level 9 Postgraduate Certificate from UCD in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise, a Postgraduate Certificate in Organisational Psychology, a Certificate in Psychology from NUI Maynooth, and an Advanced Diploma in Executive, Life, and Neuro Performance Coaching. He also holds certifications in Professional Practice in Training & Development and Training Needs Analysis & Design.
Karl has designed, and lectured on programmes at Trinity College on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Visual Culture, and Critical Theory. At DIT, he taught through the Critical Theory department, creating courses on Design, Narratology, and Critical Thinking. He delivers content at DCU on Leadership and Critical Thinking for PhD students. He also established a successful Innovation and Entrepreneurship course at Athlone IT.
Dr Karl has delivered several Critical Thinking sessions for our Dive into Data Bootcamp and all learners - also including myself - have thoroughly enjoyed the session, lots have even come back to say it was their favourite part throughout the entire bootcamp! The sessions were fantastic and they really got your brain ticking! It’s wonderful to see how real life scenarios being used and how critical thinking is a part of your everyday life, and Dr Karl shows this brilliantly
Karl was a great facilitator, he had great energy. His slides were excellent and very engaging. He had a good understanding of ----- so was able to give valid input into the ideas we were working through.
I was especially impressed with the morning session and Karl’s ability to coax people out of their comfort zones and think without limitations or constraints.
He was engaging & interesting. I noted how effectively he facilitated the day with helpful advice & prompts when needed but very much stayed back & allowed teams to work when needs be. Well able to read the room & teams.
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