Linda Naiman, founder of Creativity at Work
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and author, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is founder of Creativity at Work, and recognised internationally for pioneering arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership in organizations, and refers to her work as Corporate Alchemy.
Linda began her career as a design consultant in marketing communications and the multi-disciplinary nature of her work in business, art and design, led her to explore artistic processes and their applications to leadership and transformation. She now helps organizations around the world generate breakthroughs in business performance, through coaching, training and consulting.
Linda has spoken about art, design and transformational leadership at US Navy Leadership Symposiums, Syracuse University, Leadership Labs at the Banff Centre in Canada, and Singapore Management University. Organizations who have sought out Linda for her expertise include American Express, AstraZeneca, and Intel.
Linda is co-author with Arthur VanGundy of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork (Wiley 2003) and her writings on creativity and innovation have appeared in numerous business journals including Perspectives on Business and Global Change, published by the World Business Academy.
She has been featured in The Vancouver Sun, The New Zealand Herald, The Globe and Mail, Profitguide.com, Canadian Business Magazine, and interviewed on CBC Radio, NPR and BCTV.
Linda's work has been documented in several books: Artbased Approaches: A Practical Handbook to Creativity at Work (Chemi 2006), Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results (Silverman 2006), and Artful Creation: Learning Tales of Arts-in-Business (Darsø 2004). (Click on the links for citations)
Linda is an associate business coach at the University of British Columbia, and a Senior Associate at Creative Leadership Forum Learning Centre.
Clients include Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and boutique consultancies in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Linda Naiman holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and a diploma in Graphic Design from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. She has certificates and a diploma in advanced business coaching from Corporate Coach University.
Healthcare Leaders of British Columbia, 2009; American Creativity Assoc. Conference, Singapore 2008; IDRIART Art +Business, Slovenia (2000-2005), ODNET, BCHRMA, PCBC, the Second World Congress on the Management of Intellectual Capital, hosted by McMaster University, The World Business Academy, IIR Marketer's Creativity Camp, New Work Forum UBC, Congreso Internacional "La Educación en el Tercer Milenio" (Argentina), and the Health Work & Wellness Conference, Vancouver.
Featured/Cited in the Media
- Interview about Creativity and Leadership, on "The Winds of Change" JoyTV Feb 6, 2010
- Workplace creativity shrivels on the vine, Globe and Mail, Feb 19, 2010
- Portrait of the artist as a business science student, Business Today, South Africa April 26, 2010
- Career resilience: Midlife prompts many to act on career aspirations, The Globe and Mail, Oct 22, 2009
- Managing a Mid-Life Makeover, The Globe and Mail, May 14, 2009
- Creativity at Work featured in "Igniting a spark of creativity" New Zealand Herald. March 31, 2007
- Quoted in a Vancouver Sun article on bully cultures in toxic workplace environments Sept. 24, 2005
- "Can We Talk?" Canadian Business Magazine interview. Sept 11-14, 2006
- Quoted in CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Magazine Sept. 2005
- Interviewed about workplace productivity in The Globe and Mail (Canada), July 13, 2005
- Danish Television "Tu-Danmark" Feb. 2005
- "The Art of Creativity: 'Corporate alchemist' Linda Naiman shows businesses how to nurture creativity to ensure success." The Vancouver Sun, Aug. 2004
- North by North West, CBC Radio, June 2003
- Dynamic Graphics Magazine feature, Jan. 2003
- ProfitGuide.com interview May 9, 2002
- Location Matters with Stephen Roulac. National Public Radio (USA) March 2001
- "Trends: Going Postal," Benefits Canada Magazine 1997
- "Overcoming the Fear of Art," Workshop review, The Georgia Straight 1994
- "The Mural Project: A child's vision of the future of Vancouver in the year 2020"
BCTV News Hour, Nov. 18, 1994
Publications:
- ORCHESTRATING COLLABORATION AT WORK: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and other arts to improve teamwork. Coauthored with Arthur B. VanGundy. Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2003
- "A Question of Values" PeopleTalk Magazine. BCHRMA, Spring 2008
- The Top 10 Brainjuicers to Enhance Your Creativity, Human Resources Magazine, Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management. 2002
- Innovation in an IT World
CIPS journal May/June 1998. Reprinted 2002 by Human Resources Magazine, Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management.
- Creativity and the Meaning of Work. Perspectives on Business and Global Change,
The World Business Academy and Berrett-Koehler, March 1998.
- Life as a Work of Art, Shared Vision Magazine. March 1995
Linda Naiman has been featured or cited in the follwing publications:
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