Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Hypothesis -- The music of innovation -- 01 A passion for the future of leadership -- The magic triumvirate: innovation, creativity and consciousness -- Collective creativity and collective consciousness (or mind) -- The three keys: thinking, talking and holding space -- Leaning into the emerging future -- Summary -- Designing transformation -- 02 What is needed now? -- VUCA -- Government -- Business -- Education -- Health -- Technology -- Creative talent and Generation Y -- Super-wicked problems -- The growth dilemma -- Innovation as the key -- Quality of consciousness -- Summary -- Stepping in -- 03 A movement over a subtle threshold -- The evolution of organizational cultures -- The evolution of teams -- The evolution of leadership -- Summary -- How the lows enable the highs -- 04 Riding the creative rollercoaster -- The science of creative insight -- The creative rollercoaster -- As a metaphor -- As a lived experience -- As a map -- As a co-creative frequency -- Summary -- The creative power of disbelief -- 05 What awaits us on the other side? -- 1. Cultures of innovation -- 2. Creative teams -- 3. Evocative leadership -- 4. Breakthrough strategy -- 6. Leading the human dimensions of change -- 7. Next generation communications, branding and 'de-sign' -- 8. Biological organizing structures -- Summary -- Thickening space -- 06 Creating containers and holding spaces -- On-Boarding -- Questing -- Illumination -- Summary -- Breakdown before breakthrough -- 07 States and qualities of mind -- The four states of mind -- The bow and arrow -- The four qualities of mind -- Distortions -- The diamond -- Quantum collapse -- Summary -- A living experiment -- 08 Evoking the music of innovation -- Tuning cultures -- Summary -- Personal coda.

APPENDIX 1 Riding the creativerollercoaster programme -- APPENDIX 2 nowheremaps -- APPENDIX 3 Meeting forms -- APPENDIX 4 Catalyst curriculum -- References and further reading -- About the author -- About nowhere -- Index.