Andy Green

Andy is an Ideas Expert: he enables all sorts of people and business to be more resourceful - by improving their creative and flexible thinking skills and helping them to spread their ideas.

He delivers talks, training sessions and facilitates awaydays around the world - from San Francisco to Shanghai - and believes flexible thinking is the key achieving more with less, spotting more opportunities, and creating great new ideas.

Each January he demonstrates how to turn a negative into a positive with his worldwide campaign marking 'Blue Monday', the most depressing day of the year. He is also seeking to promote the Twixtmas break (the 5 days between Christmas and New Year holidays as a time for doing social good) and seeks to challenge bureaucratic thinking and doing through Stupid Aid Day on April 1st.

Andy Green is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and recipient of the Institute's Sir Stephen Tallents medal. He is a partner with Wakefield-based GREEN communications, associate director with Working Word in Cardiff, and founder of social enterprise the Flexible Thinking Forum, and creativity@work.He lectures part-time at Cardiff University.

Andy, 53, is married and described in a BBC radio profile on him that his greatest creative success is his two daughters. He lives on beautiful Barry Island.