Welcome to the KAI Foundation Five Podcast Series!
This is our five part introduction to building better teams and great leaders with the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory.
KAI is the world’s foremost measure for problem solving style. It’s used widely to create cohesive and productive teams and effective leaders. It’s been in use for around 40 years and is supported by a large body of academic research from around the world.
In these five podcasts we want to provide you with an understanding of why KAI is so effective, so powerful and indeed life changing for so many teams and team leaders.
In this episode we look specifically at the role and effectiveness of leaders and team members on the more innovative end of the KAI inventory and how such people approach order and structure and why it’s vital they understand and appreciate the creative adaptors in their teams.



Dr Iwan Jenkins is also a KAI expert and describes himself as a practitioner of the practical. He understands cognitive theory and complex system science, but more importantly he also knows how to make that theory applicable in today’s business world. In his own words, he turns potential into profit.
Michael Weissman is the CEO of SYNQY, a retail media platform for retailers that hate ads, where he works with global brands such as Unilever, Pepsi, Nestle and Starbucks. Amongst many other achievements, he’s a published author in seven languages, and has successfully grown five different start-ups, creating over $700 million in revenue growth in the process.
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