James Bannerman is a creative change agent who combines creativity with psychology to help businesses innovate.

As an innovation consultant he has worked with many leading organisations including Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, Starbucks, Balfour-Beatty, Atos Origin, SingTel and HSBC, as well as at the National Space Centre on a mission to Mars. He also lectures on business creativity and innovation on the MBA programmes at Warwick Business School, Grenoble Ecole de Management and Oxford Brookes University, where he is currently doing a PhD on the impact of lateral thinking on organisational performance.

Before working in business he was a platinum-selling songwriter, a freelance cartoonist (e.g. Punch), a trained clinical psychotherapist, and he has an MA in English literature from Edinburgh University.