About Linda Naiman

by on April 2, 2007 · 4 comments

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 is 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 is co-author with Arthur VanGundy of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork, an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations. Full biography here.

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Stacy Doolittle December 19, 2007 at 11:17 am: Hi Linda: I’d like to reference your site on my internal work blog at Boeing. Is that all right? In particular, I’d like to link to your creativity test and information. I’d also like permission to use this image in the posting. http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/images/home/rightvslft_lrg.gif

I can send you a copy of the posting but it is an internal to Boeing blog so you won’t be able to see it live.

Let me know and thanks for your charming site! I love it!
Linda Naiman December 19, 2007 at 12:05 pm: Hi Stacy,
You are most welcome to reference my site on your blog. The creativity test and graphic you mention are part of an ad campaign by the Art Inst of Vancouver, so permission would have to come from them. Thanks for your interest in my work.

Linda
Ann Batchelder August 19, 2009 at 5:38 am: hello Linda
There are so many businesses today that hope to include creative leadership processes, but are you aware of programs that train artists to be leaders? It seems to me there is an opportunity for artists to expand their career options beyond the studio. Many artists are becoming more involved in community-based art, for example, but they may not have the listening, group or corss-cultural skills to successfullly enter new environments (business, health care, education, civic planning, etc). Artists-in-residence programs exist in schools, but why not also in other settings, for example, or perhaps artists and consultants could team teach workshops. Any thoughts/resources/ practices/courses/books you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks
Ann
Linda Naiman September 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm: Hi Ann,
Thanks for writing and for your questions. There are programs available for artists vis a vis residencies, community-based art etc, and the ones I know of are specific to cities. For example, the City of Vancouver has Creative City initiatives, and the Arts Alliance has programs for developing artists. Another resource is http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com

I conduct open registration courses on leadership, collaboration, creativity and innovation at Royal Roads University

When I made a career transfer, I took leadership development courses for both personal development and business development, and learned as much from other students as from teachers. Leadership is leadership, and I found it beneficial for my growth. If all learning is artist-centric, there is a danger of having too narrow an outlook, and of being trapped by limiting beliefs and assumptions. I favour a multi-disciplinary approach to learning, to produce a rich exchange of ideas and insights from the worlds of business, arts, and science.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Linda