 
							
											Warren Berger
Warren Berger
Innovation expert and questionologist Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the worldโs foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems.
Warren is the author of many books, including Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry, The Book of Beautifulย Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead,ย and A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. He is also the creator of the website amorebeautifulquestion.com with the same focus.
An expert on design thinking and innovation, Warren has studied hundreds of the worldโs leading innovators, designers, red-hot start-ups, and creative thinkers to analyze how they ask game-changing questions, solve problems, and create new possibilities. Warren believes that questioning leads to innovation, can help you be more successful in your career, and can spark change in our businesses and lives.
Warrenโs previous book was the international bestsellerย Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life, that published in several editions worldwide. Business Weekย namedย Glimmerย one of the โBest Innovation & Design Books of the Year.โ
Warren currently writes forย Fast Company,ย Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributor atย Wiredย magazine and the New York Times.
He has appeared on NBCโsย Today Show, ABC World News, CNN, and as an expert on NPRโsย All Things Considered. As a speaker, Warren has keynoted at the CUSP Conference, the Fuse Conference, the Design Thinkers Conference, the International Womenโs Forum in Rome, and TEDx Portland. He has also spoken at in-house conferences hosted byย General Electric, MassMutual, Citrix, and Microsoft, among others.
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| Trade Paperback | From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all faceโat work, in our relationships, and beyond....Read More | 
| Hardback | From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face--at work, in our relationships, and beyond....Read More | 
| Trade Paperback | To get better answers, we must first ask better questions. Warren Berger reveals how in this beloved guide, with hundreds of thousands of copies sold....Read More | 
How โBeautiful Questionsโ Lead to Game-Changing Innovation
In this presentation, Warren shares inspiring stories that reveal how some of todayโs hottest startups and biggest product breakthroughs began with people asking bold, powerful, โbeautifulโ questions. What can the rest of us learn from these surprising stories? Warren shares critical insights and lessons from these examples and distills it all down to a set of practical tips and takeaways on the art of Innovative Questioning. This talk will provide the tools to enable any business leader, manager, or entrepreneur to formulate the kinds of questions that can spark ideas, identify new opportunities, or help improve existing methods and processes.
โLeading with Questionsโ: How true leaders inquire as a means to inspire
What do todayโs most creative, successful business leaders have in common? According to research shared in this presentation, todayโs top leaders are invariably great questioners. By asking the right questions, they are able to help their organizations anticipate change and move in new directions. But it isnโt easy for leaders to embrace questioning (traditionally, leaders have been expected to โhave the answersโ). In this presentation, geared specifically to those in leadership or mid-to-senior management roles, Warren talks about the evolution of the new โquestioning leaderโ in these times of greater complexity and uncertainty. He shows how great leaders are able to find the best questions to ask and how they can inspire those around them to question more and better.
Questioning as an Engine of Transformation
Is your organization on the cusp of a major transformation? Are you implementing a new initiative or trying to bring about organizational changeโperhaps in response to sweeping changes in your industry? In this talk, Warren shows how an organization can help its people at all levels become more agile and adaptable by arming them with better questioning skills.
Why Arenโt We Nurturing Kidsโ Natural Ability to Questionโand What Can Parents and Schools Do About That?
Children are natural questioners, asking hundreds of questions a day between the ages of 2 and 5. But then kids go to school and questioning falls off a cliff, displaced by rote memorization and standardized tests. As Warren shows in this presentation, we are doing a great disservice to our young people if we allow their โquestioning musclesโ to atrophyโbecause questioning is key to learning, and people who are comfortable raising and tackling difficult questions are more likely to flourish in the innovation-driven world of tomorrow. In this talk, Warren shares practical ideas and strategies for encouraging more questioning in todayโs classrooms, including insights and tips from The Right Question Institute (a renowned nonprofit education reform group that has pioneered new question-teaching methods). This presentation includes fun question-formulation exercises, and is ideal for audiences of teachers, parents, students, education conferences, school district summits, university events, or any gathering where there is a strong interest in learning, curiosity, and the future of education.
Read Warren Berger’s interview with PCMA on Convene Magazine.
TheGlitterGuide.com namedย The Book of Beautiful Questionsย as one of their “9 Books to Add to Your December Reading List.”
Check out Medium.com’s interview with Warren Berger.
Inc.com references Warren Berger’s books for using questions to create a valued working environment.
Syracuse University Magazine conducted a fun Q&A with Warren Berger.
Listen to Warren Berger on the Motley Fool’s podcast “Rule Breaker Investing.”
Check out Warren Berger on “The Remarkable Leadership Podcast.”
Toronto Globe and Mail namedย A More Beautifulย Questionย as one of the “Best Business Reads” of the year.
Read more aboutย A More Beautiful Question.
Check out Warren Berger’s most recent contributions toย Co. Design.
Find out how to ask the right questions.
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โWe invited Warren to speak to our Leadership Development Program because we have a core interest in how to innovate and the power of asking the right questions to spark the next big ‘thing’ in our industry. Warrenโs talk was streamed to our membership across the country and we all agreedโthe message was inspiring and full of great ideas that we can apply directly to our daily work. We now start our conversations with ‘how MIGHT we’โฆโ
โ Katherine Yursky, Leadership Engagement Team Lead, BoeingโFeedback regarding your presentation has been fantastic. Iโve received a number of notes that your speech connected perfectly with both the conference theme and an organizational opportunity. Folks are already sharing your 7 takeaways across the business areas. I really appreciate what you provided to us. It has created the energy weโd hoped the event could provide. Based on the results last week, weโre already planning to do the conference again next year.โ
โ Trey Whitaker, MassMutualโMany, many thanks for being such a wonderful collaborator and engaging speaker for our event! We couldnโt have asked for a better partner to plan the keynote with. I know the attendees were also just pleased as punch to receive signed copies of your book. There were happy murmurings in the hallways.โ
โ Jessica Pettus, OracleโJust wanted to share with you the excellent feedback we had after yesterdayโs session. People seemed genuinely inspired by your presentation and it dovetailed so perfectly into the broader leadership message. Thank you for being such a great partner.โ
โ Elizabeth Mankin, ChanelUSAโWarren Berger offers a cure for a disease in large enterprises. He provides a framework to help leaders ask the most important questionsโwhich is one of the most fundamental characteristics of a great leaderโwhile sharing inspiring stories to show the incredible power of this concept.โ
โ Jim Stengel, former Global Marketing Officer at Procter & GambleโAs an organization, weโve decided to put the theories and exercises experienced in your session into the DNA of LexMar Global. This will be the backbone of who we are. We intend to place ‘How might weโฆ?’ plaques on the walls around the office and will likely add our internal ‘mission question’ to the walls as well. We will also be using your methodology to explore a number of other avenues that weโve yet to share with the group. Thanks.โ
โ Stephen Garrow, CEO, LexMar GlobalโI saw Warren deliver a keynote at the 2010 FUSE Conference in Chicago and invited him to speak at one of GEโs global design summits. His talk was fun and inspiringโchallenging us to look at creativity and innovation in a fresh way.โ
โ Ivan Cayabyab, Global Brand Manager, GEโWe brought Warren to Venice to speak to our top Pernod Ricard brand CEOs from around the world about creativity, design, innovation, and the art of asking great questions. His presentation was chock-full of inspirational moments and fresh ideas.โ
โ Pascal Minella, creative consultant, Pernod RicardโFeedback from our attendees pointed to Warrenโs session as one of the conferenceโs most thought-provoking, and his insightful thinking on questioning and how it can fuel innovation and new opportunities added significantly to the conference dialogue.โ
โ Chad Fleming, Conference Organizer, International Womenโs Forum (IWF)
 
							 
							 
							