SuperCreativity Podcast with James Taylor | Creativity, Innovation and Inspiring Ideas
In the SuperCreativity™ podcast, creativity expert and innovation keynote speaker James Taylor interviews leading thinkers, innovators and performers and has them reveal their strategies and techniques to help you unlock your own creative potential. If you enjoy listening to conversations with creative thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, authors, educators, and performers then you've come to the right place. Each week we discuss their ideas, life, work, successes, failures, creative process and much more. As a leading creativity and innovation keynote speaker James teaches and interviews creative leaders including Seth Godin, David Allen, Jonathan Fields, Amy Edmondson, Amanda Palmer, Chris Guillebeau, Tommy Emmanuel, Eric Ries and Donald Miller on subjects including; how creativity works, the creative process, what is creativity, how to generate ideas, creativity exercises, creativity research, creative block, creative personality types, theories of creativity, creative thinking, educational creativity, divergent thinking, organizational creativity, creative cultures, and innovation. His work builds on other leading creativity experts including Julia Cameron, Sir Ken Robinson, Michael J Gelb, Eric Maisel, Scott Barry Kaufman, Twyla Tharp, Todd Henry, Jeff Goins, Richard Florida, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Steven Pressfield, Tina Seelig, Josh Linkner and many others. James Taylor shows us how we can all learn to be more creative.
Episodes
If there is one trait that will define who thrives in the age of artificial intelligence, it is not intelligence or technical skill.
It is curiosity.
In this solo episode, James Taylor explores why curiosity is becoming the most important human advantage in a world where machines can generate answers instantly. Drawing from research behind his book SuperCreativity, as well as insights from glo...
Creativity is often misunderstood as inspiration. A flash of insight. A moment of brilliance.
But if creativity were just inspiration, it couldn't be taught. It couldn't be scaled. It couldn't be embedded into organisations.
In this solo episode, James Taylor introduces the structured framework behind his book SuperCreativity: the Eight P's. This model provides a practical architecture for dev...
Sixteen years ago, standing backstage at London's Royal Albert Hall, James Taylor witnessed something that changed the course of his life.
From the audience, it looked like magic. A rock star under the spotlight. Five thousand people on their feet. Effortless brilliance.
But backstage told a different story.
In this deeply personal solo episode, James shares the moment he realised...
What happens when scientific innovation moves faster than our moral imagination?
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with world-leading bioethicist Françoise Baylis about CRISPR, gene editing, embryo research, relational autonomy, and the future of human identity.
From the controversial 14-day embryo rule to the difference between needs and wants in reproductive...
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How should humans really work with artificial intelligence?
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In this solo episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor explores two distinct and ...
We love the story of the lone genius. But when you look behind the scenes of the most successful companies, discoveries, and creative breakthroughs, a very different pattern emerges. Innovation is rarely a solo act. It is a team sport, and it often begins with the power of two.
In this solo episode, keynote speaker and author James Taylor explores the science and stories behind creative pairs. From iconic ...
The biggest myth about creativity is that it belongs to the lone genius. In this solo episode, keynote speaker and author James Taylor dismantles the centuries-old idea that creativity is reserved for solitary visionaries and artistic prodigies. Tracing the origins of the "lone genius" narrative back to Renaissance-era storytelling, James reveals how collaboration, not individual brilliance, has always driven breakthro...
In this solo episode, James Taylor breaks down the core idea behind his new book SuperCreativity – Accelerating Innovation in the Age of AI. He explains why the common framing of humans versus machines is outdated, and how the real competitive advantage now comes from intentional collaboration with both people and intelligent systems. Drawing on eight years of global research and work with organisations across industri...
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with Jonathan Brill, futurist in residence at Amazon, inventor, strategist, and one of the world's top-ranked futurists according to Forbes. Jonathan is the co-author of AI and the Octopus Organization, a provocative new book arguing that most AI initiatives fail because they are deployed into broken organisational systems.
Rather than fix...
In this solo episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, keynote speaker and AI advisor James Taylor reveals the real conversations happening backstage, in green rooms, and behind closed doors with global CEOs, board members, and fellow AI keynote speakers.
While public discussions about artificial intelligence often focus on tools, demos, and optimism, the private conversations are shifting to much deeper que...
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In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with Professor Jonathan S. Feinstein, the John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management at Yale School of Management, and one of the world's foremost thinkers on the science of creativity. His acclaimed new book, Creativity in Large-Scale Context, explores how creative ideas don't emerge in isolation—they e...
The World of Creativity: Lessons from 75 Countries with Fredrik Haren
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In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor welcomes back Fredrik Haren, the globally renowned Creativity Explorer and author of The World of Creativity: A Journey Across 37 Countries to Discover the Secrets of Creative Minds. Over the past 25 years, Fredrik has travelled to ...
Our Brains, Our Selves: How the Mind Creates Identity with Professor Masud Husain
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In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with Professor Masud Husain, neurologist, neuroscientist, essayist, and author of Our Brains, Ourselves: What a Neurologist's Patients Tell Him About the Brain. A leading researcher at the University of Oxford, Hus...
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor interviews Dr. Anna Abraham, neuroscientist, educator, and author of The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths. As the E. Paul Torrance Professor at the University of Georgia and director of the Creativity and Imagination Lab, Dr. Abraham has spent decades exploring the science behind creativity and imagination.
Together, they dive deep into some of t...
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with Anne-Laure Le Cunff — neuroscientist, entrepreneur, founder of Ness Labs, and author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.
Anne-Laure shares her pe...
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor speaks with Dr. Leidy Klotz, engineer, designer, behavioral scientist, and author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Klotz reveals why our brains are biased toward adding co...
The Creativity Advantage: How Creativity Shapes Our Lives with Dr. James C. Kaufman
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor sits down with Dr. James C. Kaufman, one of the world's leading creativity researchers and a ...
In this episode of the SuperCreativity Podcast, James Taylor interviews Dr. Joseph Jebelli, neuroscientist and author of The Brain at Rest and In Pursuit of Memory. Together, they explore how rest isn't laziness but a
In this solo episode, James Taylor shares his favorite listening game—Only Questions—and shows how strategic curiosity can unlock trust, insight, and innovation. You'll learn the science of the curiosity gap (why a good question makes the brain restless until it gets an answer), the three reasons leaders suppress curio...
Creativity at work isn't random—it's designed. In this SuperCreativity Podcast episode, Dr. Amy Climer (author of Deliberate Creative Teams and creator of Climer Cards) joins James to break down her Purpose–Dynamics–Process model for team creativity. We dig into psychological safety and "creative abrasion," reframing the right problem before ideating, meeting r...
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