Creativity Catalyst
PRASHANT ANILKUMAR is your Creativity Catalyst.

Teaching you how to think differently, be radical, develop creative courage, and innovate unapologetically.

Signature Keynotes

Creative Theft: Stealing Brilliance from Unexpected Places

Innovation doesn’t just come from your field, industry, or domain — it comes from stealing from others. Great artists have always known this. Learn frameworks and strategies to recombine diverse ideas for breakthrough solutions, and discover the mindset needed for cross-domain thinking.

From an Expert's to a Beginner's Mindset

The counterintuitive case that deep expertise — the very thing professionals spend careers building — can become the greatest obstacle to creative thinking in an AI-powered world. Walk away with a new relationship to curiosity, and rethink your expertise by using it as a baseline to build on, keep asking questions, and growing.

Thinking Like Picasso : Seeing What Others Miss

This visually compelling and intellectually provocative keynote translates artistic principles into a practical business methodology for multi-perspective thinking. Move from single-lens thinking to fluid, multi-angle problem-solving — discovering ideas and solutions that are more distinctive, persuasive, and impossible to replicate.

Signature Workshops

The Creative Problem-Solving Lab

Innovation doesn’t just come from your field, industry, or domain — it comes from stealing from others. Great artists have always known this. Learn frameworks and strategies to recombine diverse ideas for breakthrough solutions, and discover the mindset needed for cross-domain thinking.

Human + AI: Protecting Your Creative Edge in an Automated World

This workshop helps professionals and teams draw a clear, strategic line between what to delegate to AI and what to fiercely protect as distinctly human creative territory. Walk away with a personalized framework for staying creatively irreplaceable — especially when using AI — and a new understanding of why your best thinking is the one thing no model can replicate, and how to best collaborate with the machine.

The Outside-In Method: Building a Differentiated Point of View

This workshop guides participants through a structured process for developing a genuinely distinctive perspective by drawing from their unique combination of experiences, industries, and unconventional influences. Learn to generate contrarian ideas consistently, build a point of view that cuts through noise, and turn the things that make you “different” into your sharpest competitive asset.

The talks and workshops above represent a sample of Prashant’s offerings. Every engagement is customized to the specific needs, challenges, and goals of your audience—whether you’re looking for a half-day team session, a multi-part series, or something built entirely from scratch. Reach out and let’s start the conversation.

"It was refreshing to hear someone talk about using AI not for speed and efficiency, but to help us think outside the box. The fact that the workshop was created about an artist like Picasso truly resonated with me."

María-Inés MontesCreative Leader