George Nagle

Leading Creative Innovation

As a former Global Executive Director, George has had responsibility for a portfolio of over $352 million. He understands the need for creative innovation in a business to drive the P&L. At one point, he successfully launched 19 products in 14 months that indeed required different thinking to find value in a highly conservative market.

George’s diverse business and science background brings many unique perspectives that others are missing. Having worked in over 24 different industries, he brings that extensive experience to audiences worldwide using a unique approach to different sustainable Breakthrough Thinking™. George authentically shares a toolbox that anyone can use to deliver performing innovation quickly.

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What George Nagle's Clients Say

Here is some of the feedback from audiences and clients who have worked with George.

"George helped change my life AND inspired my daughter, along with her boyfriend, to start a business they had been thinking about."

Mike Netzel,

Premier Team Leader,

Keller Williams Real Estate

"During a session with 100 people, George made us feel like he was right there with each of us individually. The tools and breakthrough thinking he delivered has been incorporated with my team. But further than that, I have taken those tools into my community and taught them to others who are victims. They too have benefited in this change of thought to lead more productive lives."

Dr. Jay Wallace,

Founder and CEO,

Bio-Qual

"George’s discussion about communication made me aware that I was coming from a place of ‘I know’ instead of actively listening. The ability to recognize and step away from my bias has expanded business and personal relationships."

Anne Fleming,

Founder and CEO,

Women-Drivers

"As a person that struggled as a young adult and had to learn by the school of hard-knocks, I had a more skeptical view of how fast meaningful things can change. Using the simplicity of George’s messages and tools, we absolutely continue to change our approach to business for the better."

Theresa Morse,

Cofounder and COO,

ClearAir

"The session was a very fun way to be reminded of the simple things that make you successful. George gave me creative useful ways to be reminded of those concepts in my everyday work and personal life."

Stacy Colombo,

Delivery Leader,

Dewpoint Tech

"When I heard the message about when I think everyone has heard a message that people are just starting to hear, it made me think. I took that idea and returned to our plans around changing our message. Thankfully, we heard this because we truly had just started to make headway just before we were ready to give up to try something new. We are bringing this into our strategy now, and people seem excited about where we, as an organization, are going."

Lauren Strutt,

Marketing Manager,

Eyewear

"Letting go of being right… so hard to do, but what a difference. Fast food isn’t a glamorous business to manage. It has a lot of turnover and a lot of complaining customers. When I started letting go of being right and focusing on what really mattered to the business, our retention rate increased… that was for employees and returning customers."

Toni Maher,

Manager,

Burger King

"Reframing how I view tasks, work, and life has always been separate. I found myself trying my best, putting in as many hours as I could (over 70 a week), and feeling depressed. George showed me how everything touches everything and separation doesn’t work on the long term. He gave me tools to help shift perspective and how that can allow for happiness. For me, and the people I talk to about it; this works!"

Brandon Seybold,

After Market Specialist,

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George Nagle's 2025 Biography

About George Nagle – MS, MBA

George delivers a series of keynotes, masterclasses on creative ideation, and workshops on sustainable innovation, using unique tools to help everyone grasp fun, exciting and tangible outcomes. He takes everyone’s success seriously and embraces the needs of those he is helping. George ensures that he has a firm understanding of his clients regardless of their market. At one point, he obtained a real estate license to understand the needs of partners in that sector!

The presentations immediately engage the audience to get them moving out of their comfort zone playfully and safely. Active demonstration of how to conquer the fear of change is paramount as you start the journey to delivering creative innovation that has value in months, not years. We explore the underpinning thought processes people undergo at work and why they keep producing stagnant products.In the journey, we unlock everyone’s innate creativity to inspire projects people want to work on together. Some of the more frequently requested topics are 1) Unleash Creativity To Increase Productivity, 2) Achieve True Innovation In Eight Months, 3) Communicated Strategy To Drive Engagement, 4) Happiness At Work Is Possible, and 5) The Five Letter F Word.

The best way to learn tools is to use them. George sits down with your teams and demonstrates the tools using your concerns in real-time. This sets the stage for bringing communication, prioritization, and strategy into focus with fun, simple, and memorable tools for work and home. The tools bring out the need for diversity and inclusion, clearly defined areas of focus, customer values, natural team formation, system utilization, busy work elimination, engaged cultures, value-adding voice of customer, employee retention, next generation of leaders, revolutionizing ideas, and an intense urgency to deliver market-changing innovation. All of this results in outperforming the market, so you no longer have true competitors.

George has a black and multiple green belts in different academically accredited innovation processes such as Innovation and Growth Systems, Green Belt for Growth, and Value Innovations. He is a certified online instructor in the FORTH method as well. George also holds a Master of Science in Biology and an MBA in Marketing and Management from Duquesne University. He graduated with honors from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in Biology.

In addition to founding The Ideation Emporium of Creativity™, he is the author of the Breakthrough Thinking™ series for business and life. The series includes “The Five Letter F Word™,” “Miserable At Work? Why? You Don’t Have To Be™,” and “How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™.” George also wrote a fictional spy series, “The Life We Lead: Ascending, Trials, and Sacrifice.” The last two of this series are in the works!

George feels lucky to be a single foster and adoptive parent to multiple amazing boys. He actively mentors youth in the foster system. He is also a master instructor in taekwondo and a volunteer coach with local youth sports.

George Nagle's 2025 Talks & Topics

George Nagle's Latest Books

The Five Letter F Word™

Have you ever wondered why your teams don’t seem to be hitting their full potential and crushing the competition? Is there a lot happening, but your team is distracted and not working on the critical things that impact the bottom line? Perhaps a look at the purpose, people, and prioritization is needed. “The Five Letter F Word™” brings culture center stage in creating a strategy to allow you to innovate. You gain insight into several key areas that often lead to busy teams not delivering the expected growth. With these insights are tools to define a meaningful strategy, how to prioritize, and how to get things done. It does require a willingness to try some Breakthrough Thinking™. Once you bring yourself and the people around you the awareness, the magic of accomplishment is unleashed that can often bring more than 10x the previously expected profits. This succinct guide provides deliberate steps and tools vital to moving forward with a team that can become an ensemble. The purposeful discussion enables people to plan for the important things that can create new markets that allow you to deliver meaningful solutions for your customers.

Miserable At Work? Why? You Don't Have To Be.™

“Miserable At Work? Why? You Don’t Have To Be.™”, describes Breakthrough Thinking™ for having fun at work to deliver true innovation. We explore how to ideate and bring out the best in everyone in this practical how-to-guide for intentional fun delivering creative ideation for innovation. When we are having fun at work we certainly aren’t miserable. We focus on three major concepts. The first is bringing awareness to how we think our brains work and then discovering where we may have had misconceptions. The second is letting go of the powerful need to be right at the start of trying to achieve something new. The final concept is how to move forward as a team on ideas without falling back into old habits by using fun, simple, and memorable tools that can be deployed just about anywhere with a pen and piece of paper.

How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™

How can a 20-year-old college dropout beat a multi-billion dollar company to the market? It may not sound reasonable, but it happens every day across the globe. “How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™” demonstrates how you can take a truly innovative idea to a launched solution in 8 months. You don’t need a ridiculous amount of resources, but you do need to focus on a Minimal Viable Solution (MVS) with a dedicated team. You will work a process that cuts out all of the excess work that is more appropriate for iterations or that is simply unneeded. The way you are getting beat to the market with fantastic new innovations is because the inexperienced individuals are moving forward without the entanglement of experience. They don’t know all of the things they are ‘supposed to do’. That enables them to just do. Their Breakthrough Thinking™ process brings creativity front and center to reduce ideas without diluting them. They work hand-in-hand with the innovators and early adopters to change industries that can spawn new ones. You will get to utilize all of the Breakthrough Thinking™ to go faster to the market than you imagine. The ensembles you create will begin moving through projects so quickly you may find you are the innovation leader almost overnight. More importantly, you will look back and wonder why your organization took so long to get back to having fun while bringing life-changing ideas to the world.

The Breakthrough Thinking™ Series

Breakthrough Thinking™ brings innovation to our lives at home and work. It is a simple methodology focused on three major concepts. The first is bringing awareness to how we think our brains work and then discovering where we may have had misconceptions. The second is letting go of the powerful need to be right at the start of trying to achieve something new. The final concept is how to move forward as a team on ideas without falling back into old habits that will crush your breakthroughs in thinking. We are assembling these thoughts, tools, and techniques into three ideation books to empower creativity to deliver rapid innovation. Though presented from a work perspective, the concepts have implications everywhere in life. You will begin with how to bring focus and alignment by utilizing a focused approach on people first. You will then be enabled to communicate prioritization and strategic planning throughout an organization. It will then be time to unleash your creativity with direct input from customers. That explosion of genuinely innovative ideas will make work and home happier. The positive mind frame will allow for true innovation, not just iteration, to change your markets in under eight months. “The Five Letter F Word.™,” “Miserable At Work? Why? You Don’t Have To Be.™”, and “How Are Kids Innovating Faster Than You?™” are part of the Breakthrough Thinking™ series from The Ideation Emporium of Creativity™.

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