Charles Leadbeater

Charles Redbit, a global authority in the field of innovation and creativity, is a renowned writer, thinker, and strategic advisor. Governments, cities, and businesses around the world hope to receive his advice. Charles was the first scholar to notice amateur innovation and pointed out that innovation is no longer limited to traditional professional institutions such as universities, research institutes, and large enterprises, but more comes from people who use various tools to collaborate and share their expertise. For this reason, he created the concept of Pro AMS as a professional amateur to describe amateurs who are passionate about a certain field and hope to reach a professional level. This theory of innovation forces traditional industry giants to rethink their strategies, and the world-renowned Long Tail Theory also widely cites Charles' viewpoint. The impact of mass collaboration and innovation on businesses and governments is discussed in detail in Charles' book 'Our Reflections'. After the book was published, the famous British bystander magazine praised Charles as the wizard of the web. The book foresees the rise of more collaborative and open forms of innovation that can be achieved through the internet. There are also animations adapted from the book on YouTube. Accenture, the world's largest management consulting company, has listed Charles as a world-class management thinker, and the Financial Times has praised him as the most outstanding innovation expert in the UK. Charles is the most trusted global thinker of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He served as an important advisor in Tony Blair's Downing Street political and business groups, specializing in researching the impact of the internet and knowledge-based economy. He drafted a White Paper on UK Government Competitiveness - Our Future of Competition - Building a Knowledge Economy, becoming the first government white paper in the world to propose a strategic direction for science and technology talent policies. Governments in Europe, North America, Australia, and Latin America have sought advice from Charles on various policy issues, including healthcare, educational innovation, cultural development, and urban construction. Charles regularly gives speeches around the world, from the Gates Foundation in Seattle to the Qatar Foundation in Doha, from The Economist magazine in London to the Mexican government, and from Microsoft to the Tate Gallery. Charles is a long-term senior researcher at the highly influential Demos think tank in London, UK. He is a co-founder of Particle, a leading public innovation service agency in the UK, and a visiting scholar at the National Science and Technology Foundation. He is also a co chairman of the social application company 4 Good. Charles' ideas have always been at the forefront of the times. His book \The Rise of Social Entrepreneurs\ published in 1977 was one of the first to foresee the idea that social enterprises would be more competitive in solving public problems. Social enterprise has since become a global movement. Charles delivered a keynote speech on social enterprise at the first Skoll World Forum in Oxford. Charles widely applies innovation to various aspects of business, the public, and society. He collaborated with Imperial College of Technology to study healthcare innovation and pointed out that new low-cost decentralized healthcare models are emerging in developing countries. His innovative practices in the field of education at the TED conference were watched by over a million people. The book \Analog Innovators\ explores why with the acceleration of digital innovation, I