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 amongst members, followed by a 40 minute interview with a guest followed by a 20 minute Q&A. This provides a way for members to connect with each other in real time, and experience an emotionally rich exchange, not possible by email and other online exchanges.
Global Conversations Podcasts
June 2009
Deep Diving
An interview with Cynthia Duval, Founder, the Pacific Ethnographic Research Center
Cynthia takes us on a deep dive into creativity through her ethnographic lens– uncovering how ethnography works to uncover history, culture, emotions, needs and wants of a target audience.
About Cynthia Duval
Cynthia Duval is a cultural psychologist who specializes in usingapplied ethnographic research to discover innovation opportunities. She has worked for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center studying artist/ scientist collaborations, Microsoft Mobile Electronics doing an ethnography of mobile professional work practices, and Verizon Labs identifying new service concepts for Broadband to the home technology and at IBM studying complex collaboration. Cynthia recently founded the Pacific Ethnographic Research Center, to do work that is good for people, nature and the world using ethnographic work to inform education, advocacy and entrepreneurial activities.
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July 2009
Creativity, Connectivity, Transformation
Presentation by John Cimino, president and CEO of Creative Leaps International
John’s work is informed by studies in neuroscience, perception, learning and creativity, the study of complex dynamic systems, the origins of order, musical composition, poetry, mathematics and the history of science. The broad theme of the presentation is about looking at what we strive to do and how we go about doing It. John shares insights into the why and how from four inspiring sources: G. Bateson, B. Fuller, M. Cervantes, M. Greene.
About John Cimino
John has a formal background in the sciences, education and the performing arts and for more than three decades has been a pioneer in interdisciplinary approaches to thinking, teaching and learning.
He and his colleagues from Creative Leaps International and The Learning Arts, work regularly with children, teachers, college students, university faculty and administrators, leaders in the corporate and government sectors, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs. As a performing artist, John Cimino is the winner of more than 20 national and international awards and prizes as an operatic and concert performer and has performed to acclaim throughout Europe and the continental United States in productions including LA BOHEME (Academy of Music, Philadelphia, opposite tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and LUISA MILLER (International Verdi Festival of Busetto, Italy, opposite tenor Carlo Bergonzi)
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August 2009
Creativity and on improving human maturity / wisdom / emotional intelligence /eldering
An interview with Bob Eckert, New and Improved, LLC
Bob Eckert is a founding partner at New & Improved, LLC. He came to the creativity & innovation field via his work in youth empowerment. His methods were focused on developing humility, curiosity, courage, passion & tenacity in the youth leaders he was working with around the world. For the past 15 years, he has been working primarily with adults in corporate, government and educational settings. He is seeing an interesting connection between the following 5 dynamics:
- Creativity skills development methodological maturity
- Serious commercial interest in the science of innovation
- Emotional intelligence development
- A desire for deeper meaning in work & life in the baby boom cohort
- A desire for constant development in the millennial cohort.
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September 2009
The Dance of Leadership
An Interview with Robert Denhardt
Our conversation focused on the connection between art and leadership, based on the book The Dance of Leadership. The Dance of Leadership focuses on the art of leadership, employing material from art, music, and especially dance, to discover new ways of thinking about leadership and new ways of sharpening one’s leadership skills. A key idea to explore is be whether art is a metaphor for leadership or whether leadership is in fact an art.
About Robert Denhardt
Dr. Denhardt is Lincoln Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and a Past President of the American Society for Public Administration, a nationwide organization of academics and practitioners in the field of public administration at all levels of government. His most recent book, with Janet Denhardt, is The Dance of Leadership, published by M. E. Sharpe
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To read an excerpt of the Dance of Leadership click here
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