The interplay of business, art and science
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 Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Jul 17th, 2009
Alchemy When I tell people I am a Corporate Alchemist, I get some interesting responses, and none of them are neutral. People are either incredulous, excited or curious. Most Americans I talk to don’t know what alchemy is, and Canadians often reference “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. So what is Alchemy? The word alchemy was [...]
Posted in BOOKS, Events, Home, arts-based training on Jun 16th, 2009
Reading List for my courses on Creativity, Leadership and Innovation at Royal Roads University Solution Finding: Leading with Creativity Putting Passion to Work: Potent Leadership Buy these books through Amazon. Just click on the links to get details or visit my Amazon Bookstore for my collections A Whole New Mind: by Daniel H. Pink Artscience: Creativity in [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Jun 9th, 2009
John Howkins on Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture)
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Home, arts-in-business on May 15th, 2009
This post is part of the Blogging Marathon: 24 Hours of Innovation: We are living in the midst of a seismic shift that calls for us to redefine the way we live and work. This is not a time to hunker down and wait for the turbulence to subside. This is the time to mitigate [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Events, Home on May 11th, 2009
I have been invited to join “My Half Time Pep Talk for 2009,” a collection of posts about innovation as part of the Board of Innovation’s 24 Hours of Innovation event, May 15-16, 2009. I have been asked to contribute a blog post about anything innovation-related from the state of innovation so far in 2009 to cool new [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Events, Home on Apr 21st, 2009
Conference dates: June 21-24, 2009 Venue: Boston MA The Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) is the oldest and longest running conference dedicated to the teaching and practice of creativity and innovation. CPSI was the brainchild of Alex Osborn, the inventor of Brainstorming and Creative Problem Solving (CPS), and the cofounder of advertising firm BBDO. Speakers [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation on Jan 9th, 2009
Imagine. Create. Innovate. I’m glad that creativity and innovation are gaining currency amongst world leaders. How else will we find ways to flourish? The European Year of Creativity and Innovation wants to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, to disseminate good practices, stimulate education and [...]
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.
