Adopting the language of the business
An interview with John Brooker
Mar 18, 2025
Abstract
John Brooker is a professional meeting facilitator and innovator, working with teams on a truly international basis, across Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He encourages teams to think innovatively using his own Inn8 Approach and Solution Focus, so that they can achieve difficult targets, tackle complex challenges and maximise major opportunities. He is the author of Innovate to Learn, Don’t Learn to Innovate. The Inn8 Approach detailed in the book has recently been licensed by Unipart for internal use.
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Carey Glass
SFiO Reviewed Practitioner
Editor of Interaction
SFIO Contributor
Carey Glass is a Management Consultant and Organisational Psychologist. Her business “Change With Ease” reflects the miracle that happens when organisation move away from problem-focused approaches. She has brought SF to all areas of corporate and public sector life in the UK, from strategy, to performance management, to occupational health and safety, to culture, coaching and complexity helping create far-reaching change with ease. She has published case studies describing the transformation that SF brings to organisational outcomes and is excited to now be bringing the benefits of SF to Australian organisations.
John Brooker
Co-President
SFiO Reviewed Practitioner
Editor of Interaction
Chapter Head
SFiO Contributor
John has over thirty years experience of leading people to collaborate effectively. He gained his leadership experience as a Senior Vice President in Visa International, working on international projects. Since 2004 he has used his leadership and Solution Focus expertise to enable people in multinational and national organisations to collaborate effectively. He is Co-President of Solution Focus in Organisations, an SFiO Reviewed Practitioner and has an MBA from The Open University in the UK.