The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Aug 13th, 2010
“Help!” says a new client, “I recently got promoted to a management position at work. How do I find the balance between leading and being in control, without being a control freak?” As a former prima donna, I’ve been on both sides of the fence on this issue. When I was a design consultant, many [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Jan 11th, 2010
Vancouver skyline. Photo courtesy of Thomas Quine This month the City of Vancouver is in the spotlight as it prepares to host the 2010 Olympics. In honour of the occasion, I offer a Vancouver success story about urban renewal and revitalisation: The Creative City and Sustainability: Leadership Lessons for Sustainable Initiatives Vancouver, host of the [...]
Posted in Events, Home, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
Composition 10 by Kandinsky 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 ) Please bring a lunch. 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 [...]
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 and Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Training, Home, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2009
(These are some of the questions we are helping clients answer.) How do we continue growing your business amidst an economic downturn? How can you work more effectively with constraints? Do your leaders have a set of principles and methodologies for developing creativity in your organization? How do you keep re-inventing to stay relevant to [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Events, Home on Mar 12th, 2009
How long is now? A visit last month to The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco inspired the theme for this newsletter. The term was coined by Brian Eno, who noticed when he first moved to New York City, here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here [...]
Ongoing Events Feed your body, mind and spirit Vancouver Farmers Market Vancouver Farmers Markets (otherwise known as Your Local Farmers Market Society) is about people who love fresh food at festive gatherings. With the initial goal in 1995 to create the fun and value of weekly Farmers Markets in urban settings, the Society and the [...]
You’re welcome to attend a celebration of recently published arts-based education books along with a theatre piece developed by UBC theatre education students! Three arts-based education books by members of our Faculty of Education have recently been published: Creative Expression, Creative Education by Robert Kelly (U. Calgary) and Carl Leggo (UBC) Being with A/r/tography by Stephanie [...]
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.
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