Speaking
Every presentation I give is customized to your group (I actually talk to members of your audience to ensure relevance). Here are some topics:
Embrace Your Inner Dork: Follow Your Creative Passion
Create from the Cube: Habits of Professional Innovators
Building Creative Teams: Lessons from the Lab and the Theater
Generation Trap: Millennials Have a Work Ethic and Boomers are Not Selfish
Set the Stage: How to Create an Organization Culture of Creativity
Regardless of your audience I promise interaction, a few chuckles and actionable ideas.
Facilitation
We all know the difference between a successful meeting and an unsuccessful meeting . The path to either is not always so obvious.
As an objective outsider I can help you ensure a meeting that will:
- focus on your most critical work
- keep the team input balanced and productive
- drive to specific outcomes
- energy (rather than exhaust) your team
Workshops & Retreats
For the past 20 years I have taught all manner of creativity workshops in multiple industries. From energy companies to technology labs, from finance to consumer goods I have had the pleasure of supporting the creative process through workshops like these:
Ideas Into Action: A workshop for individual employees. Each participant comes with a specific project and applies a suite of creative problem solving tools to the challenge.
Idea Labs: For teams working on knotty problems. 4-6 hours in problem clarification, ideation, solution development and action planning.
Creative Styles: To understand one’s personal creative preferences and how your style interacts with the styles of others.
Climate for Innovation: Assess your team or group climate on nine dimensions of validated innovation requirements. Problem solve as a group to improve your climate.
Coaching
My approach to coaching comes from two sources:
1) working in the trenches coaching leaders who have big, difficult jobs and
2) working with highly creative people who are blocked in some fashion.
In addition to seasoned, proven coaching techniques I have done further training in coaching the creative process. Kaizen-Muse coaching is the art of creative progress through small steps. The power of this coaching is its refreshingly non-linear approach. Small steps and the use of gentle, encouraging techniques can move you past procrastination, overwhelm, self-sabotage, fear, and into the experience of creativity as a productive habit.
