Caneel Joyce

Caneel Joyce, London School of Economics

I am a writer, teacher, teamworker, and ideawoman specializing in design strategy, creativity, and innovation. I live in San Francisco and I’m a faculty-member-at-large at the London School of Economics in the Department of Management. I have a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. I am trained in using social science to make better things, and make things work better.

I love technology, design, leading teams, and creative collaboration. I am always hunting for opportunities to make great things with cool people.

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Consulting & Creative Facilitation

I help teams and organizations become better at innovation and design. I work with teams and project leaders to define ambiguous problems, rapidly develop solutions, and pitch new ideas to stakeholders and clients. I have facilitated product innovation teams at start-ups and companies like Disney, Panasonic, Wells Fargo, and Cisco. Contact me to discuss how we can work together.

Research
I am a mixed-methods researcher, with experience and training in experiments, ethnography, archival, and quantitative survey research. My research focuses on the management of creativity, innovation and design. I am most interested in how decisions are made within the creative process, and the paradoxical effects of constraint on the creative process (too much choice and freedom have their downsides!). My recent publications have examined how structured social interactions such as speed-dating can facilitate creative collaboration (“speedstorming“). My study on innovation in the financial industry shed light on how top firms retain their competitive advantage over time by honing a service innovation culture, and was featured in The Economist.

Teaching

I love teaching of all kinds. I have taught Organizational Change, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Negotiations, and Applied Innovation to MBAs, executives, masters students, engineers, and designers. I have lectured on Design Thinking, Pitching and Presenting, New Product Development, and Open Business Model Innovation.