SHINE: How to Survive and Thrive at Work is Chris Baréz-Brown’s exhilarating new guide to loving your work, and living your working life to the full.
Chris believes that work should be stimulating, exciting and fun. In SHINE he shares how Bono can teach you to be Elvis at work; why you should use your desk for reading novels, not working and why napping in the office is the route to creative success.
You can buy SHINE at most good bookshops (and loads of really great bookshops too). You can also buy it from online retailers, and if you’d like to buy it on an electronic device you can do that too.


Practical and inspirational ways to help you kick-start your creativity, identify what you want and then make it happen. A playful and mind-expanding book by the training guru who spent ten years at ?What If!, the world’s largest innovation consultancy, who will help you to unlock your creative juices and grow in new directions. Stuck in a rut, bored, dissatisfied, uninspired? Feel like it’s Groundhog Day? Got a problem you don’t know how to solve? But what if you knew exactly what you wanted and could make it happen, right now? To get there, you need creativity – YOU NEED SOME KICK-ASS IDEAS
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Chris’s book is a champagne-in-the-veins tonic for jaundiced people who desire to revive the technicolour from a monochrome life. I heartily recommend it.
Tim Smit, co-founder and CEO of The Eden Project
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Let Chris Barez-Brown be your idea guru!
Ken Blanchard, Co-author of the one minute manager
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Elvis has now become a term in our business. Either, ‘have you been Elvis’d’, ‘that is very Elvis’ or ‘I’m feeling quite Elvis today’. They have had a massive impact on all the individuals
Simon Daglish, Group Commercial Director ITV
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It’s not the instrument that makes the music, it’s the player. So much emphasis in the world of innovation and creativity is placed on process, tools and techniques. Chris fully understands it’s the people who make the magic not the structure. Chris is a master at bringing out the creative spark in people to turn dust into something that matters, so that in the words of John Lennon, “We all shine on.”
John Van Vleck, Global Director, Insights, Ideas and Creativity The Coca-Cola Company
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Apart from the very insightful content and great techniques I thought the delivery was the best I’ve ever seen – very human and hilarious (and I have high comedy standards
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Olivia Diamond, Commercial Progamme Manager, Diageo
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Having an app that brings some randomness into the day. Brilliant idea.
Mediababy
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Shine is a bright source of energy and ideas that will help you make the most of yourself.
Ken Robinson, author of The Element: How finding your passion changes everything
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A lot of the motivation ideas and support to transform the commercial team has come from Upping Your Elvis.
Fru Hazlitt, Managing Director, Commercial and Online, ITV
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Upping your Elvis have brought creativity into the heart of everything we do at ITV. They do it in an incredibly engaging fun style which is infectious.
Kelly Williams, Sales Director ITV
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So much big talk about transformation… Chris actually delivers it. Time and again. Part art, part gift, part crazy man. He works his magic every time!
Maria Eitel – Founder and President of the Nike Foundation
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Chris Barez-Brown is a modern day prophet. He has a gift … an uncanny ability to inspire change agents in my organization. Everything he touches turns to gold and shines ever so brightly. He is our Elvis.
Keith Wilmot – The Coca-Cola Company
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Trained someone in Nike for 2.5 days, it cost 1.5k. Next week used learning to invent Nike 10k, became run London, became Run the World where 960,000 took part.
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Coached a guy for 1.5 hours, had 250 people working for him. Within 2 weeks had 14,000 following my approach.
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The guys are exceptionally good at what they do. I was making a list of the most influential people or things in my career and this was in the top 3.
Chris Binns, Managing Partner MediaCom
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absolutely inspiring book, love it!
Elisabeth Spenger
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Chris Baréz-Brown’s presentation style sparkled and inspired our team to think differently. His unique and powerful insights have the ability to transform any organization.
Derek Kent, Chief Marketing Officer, Canadian Olympic Committee
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Chris leads the most amazing, inspiring, and self-changing events. They’ve had a profound impact in my life and on my work. He has the uncanny ability to help individuals and companies change – change for the better, more profitable, more joyful. Chris helped me discover my real talents and desires. Working with him has changed my life.
Jeff Semenchuk, Chief Innovation Officer at Hyatt Hotels Corporation
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Without doubt, Chris has been the most creative influence in my life. I come away from every meeting feeling like I’ve been through the spin cycle and far better for it!. Chris has the wonderful natural ability to make my creative juices flow every time we meet. I leave having had a good belly laugh and with my brain buzzing. We should bottle him!
Caroline Whaley, GM Creative Development, The Nike Foundation
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Some of the energisers are guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
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Did a capability project, took 2 years, added $1bn dollars to the sale price of the company