The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Sep 25th, 2009
What a surprise to learn that Eric Schmidt has a coach. In “The Best Advice I Ever Got” a feature by Fortune Magazine, Schmidt explains why having a coach is so important: A coach is crucial to giving you perspective. Watch the video: Schmidt: Everyone needs a coach(0:41) Find inspiration, renewed confidence, and the empowerment to [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Training, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, arts-based training on Sep 23rd, 2009
Time to evolve. Doesn’t September feel more like the New Year than January? September is the time to complete projects, clear out the old, harvest the fruits of your labours, and prepare the ground for the new. If we are tuned in to the cycles of nature, then we will want to create order and [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation on Sep 23rd, 2009
I’ve started hosting monthly conference calls for members of the Creative Skills Training Council, focused on conversations that matter about our praxis. We have had amazing interviews from thought leaders on various topics, and have decided to make the recordings available to the public. The calls take the form of an introduction and informal chat [...]
Posted in ARTS, CREATIVE ECONOMY on Sep 23rd, 2009
Have you got a solution for arts funding in your community? If so, I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking for solutions that help foster the arts in communities, (beyond government grants and traditional corporate funding) that I hope will inspire my government, and yours, to take action, and contribute in innovative ways to [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Events, Home on Sep 10th, 2009
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming HealthCare Leaders’ conference, October 20, in Vancouver BC. Here’s my topic: Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in [...]
Posted in ARTS, Events, Home, arts-based training on Sep 3rd, 2009
Saturday Nov 28, 2009 Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Venue: Unity Church, 5840 Oak Street, Vancouver Cost: $79.00 each day (includes art supplies, tea, coffee and cookies ) Registration: Please contact Bob Gault at ergault@telus.net or call 604.941.2770 Facilitated by Linda Naiman Explore the process of painting as a means of slowing down, becoming present to the [...]
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work.
She applies arts-based learning and design-thinking to leadership development, creativity and innovation.
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
