Every change starts
with imagination.

Yoad was one of those speakers who captured the audience from the very first moment. What I particularly appreciated was his ability to be inspiring while remaining very practical and engaging throughout the entire keynote.

And he did it without a single slide. Just Yoad, the audience, and a notebook that became the thread connecting his ideas and key messages. For me, that says a lot about him as a speaker: he knows how to read the room, connect with people, and convey a message regardless of the size of the audience.

At AllWeb Digital Conf, he didn’t simply speak about proactive imagination — he made the audience experience it. He gave people a practical way to think about the impact they want to create and to start making decisions and taking action from that future.

It was engaging, different, and genuinely useful — the kind of keynote people participate in, remember, and take something away from.

We invited Yoad through SSE Riga to work with our team. He helped participants leverage active imagination to open their minds to new ideas, break through self-imposed thinking blocks, and build overall confidence. I recommend his work to organizations looking to encourage their team to step out of their comfort zones and embrace innovative ways of thinking.

We’ve worked with Yoad across several executive education open programmes at SSE Riga, including Digital Transformation and Leadership, the Mini MBA in Innovation Management, Advanced Management programme, as well as corporate training for companies such as Accenture Latvia, Playtech and Avad Baltic. Yoad brings fresh energy and a spirit of creativity to the classroom- his approach gets participants actively involved, helping them use proactive imagination to connect the impact they want to create with decisions and action in their own work. We’ve seen participants get encouraged to think outside the box and grow more courageous. We continue to invite him because of the fresh perspective and mindset shift he brings to the classroom.

We brought Yoad in for a two-day IMAGYM program with The Culture Factor Group to unlock more cross team connection on new product features and a turnaround on our service model. What stood out was the team's true openness, and vulnerability in engaging with the challenges presented throughout the program.

He helped us reframe the challenges which caused our service model to be holding us back, using proactive imagination to connect the impact we wanted to create with how we worked and the choices we made. We saw the team thinking from the customer's point of view as opposed to the product point of view.

As CEO, the value for me was seeing the team take that step to think outside-in, not an easy feat for a team that had been building on an established legacy and operating model, yet they were able to rethink both.

It requires you, as CEO to be open in sharing your own frustrations. Once you're ready to do that, Yoad can use your openness to help your team reimagine how they approach the challenges at hand.

Yoad has worked with several BSV Ventures accelerator cohorts, helping our founders bridge the gap between strong technology and a viable business. His methodology is quite unique in bringing imagination into that process — something we find particularly important for scientific founders. They are very good at understanding what their technology can do today; Yoad pushes them to collectively imagine the future it could enable, the role their company could play in it, and then work backwards towards the customers, value proposition and decisions they need to make now. We’ve seen teams leave his sessions with a much clearer vision of what they are building, for whom and why it matters, as well as concrete next steps to validate it. Just as importantly, founders genuinely enjoy working with him. Several have chosen to continue working with Yoad individually after the accelerator, which is probably the strongest endorsement of the value they get from the process.

Yoad's approach is both innovative and deeply engaging, pushing participants beyond their comfort zones to unlock true growth and potential. Even after experiencing the demanding nature of the first day, participants eagerly returned, ready to delve deeper and commit fully to the process. I wholeheartedly recommend Imagination Training to anyone looking to elevate their team or accelerator startups to new heights.