Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Skills Development

Creativity & Innovation Workshops & TrainingLinda Naiman2019-03-19T17:16:40-07:00

Creativity is the #1 “soft” skill companies need the most in 2019 (according to a Linkedin study*)

Why? You might ask: While robots are great at solving problems and optimizing existing ideas, organizations most need employees who can imagine and create innovative solutions for tomorrow.

Develop the creativity, innovation and leadership capabilities required to adapt to change, stay competitive, improve business performance and make a positive difference in the world.

Whole-Brain Creativity and Innovation Skills Training/Workshops

Arts-Based Learning for Creativity, Innovation and Leadership in Business

Arts-based learning is an interdisciplinary approach to learning, using the arts as a pathway to explore non-art topics such as leadership and management in business.

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*Source: Paul Petrone “The Skills Companies Need Most in 2019 – And How to Learn Them,” Linkedin, January 1, 2019.

Testimonials

“Innovation is the key to the company’s future success and the global race for innovation is getting intense. The innovation workshop is really inspiring and engaging as it guides us through different skills and tool kits to explore the potential power of our minds and shows us how to lead the product innovation to business success.”
— Dr. Knut Zoellner, Vice President, Technology, Innovation BASF Polyurethane Specialties (China)

“Companies today struggle to bring together creativity with business insights. Linda has a set of well-thought out and field-tested ways to help all of us think more creatively and more visually. This helps companies imagine their business and understand their customers in new ways, something that is essential at this point in the economy.”

—Steven Forth, Co-Founder at TeamFit, Vancouver

Selected clients

How can we help you unlock creativity at work in your organization?

Linda offered us a challenging, unusual approach to creativity and she provided all of us with highly valuable insights. We now have a set of principles and practices for fostering creativity and innovation that we are implementing at our Business Unit. I recommend Linda Naiman to companies looking for effective ways to cultivate creativity in their people.

—A. Fischer, Senior Vice President Customer Relations Management, Business Unit, High Performance Polymers, Degussa HPP (now Evonik)

Linda embodies the creative qualities she espouses in her work with others. She is a rare combination of someone who is both a practical professional and a reflective practitioner. She has proven to be an expert in enabling and mentoring creative competence in others at all levels of responsibility in organizations. She is a collaborative and supportive colleague who never wavers in her accountabilities and responsibilities. Her work has proven to be exemplary in diverse contexts and settings and will continue to grow in influence.

—Harold Nelson, President, Advanced Design Institute

Sometimes we feel we can not go beyond our ideas and creativity comes to a stall. Art can liberate that feeling and help us look inside ourselves, then we realize there are more ideas than we can imagine and they start to flow. This program helped me look inside myself and understand we just need to let our mind flow and with the help of art as a base for creativity we can go beyond our imagination. We are all artists in our own way. I plan to use the tools and processes from the Art of Leadership Forum at our organization’s strategic brainstorming sessions.

—Yandia Perez, Managing Director, Baxter Sales & Distribution Corp. PR

The encounter between business and the arts illuminates the value of the human being, with all his/her resources, including the most unutterable of them all, the spiritual one. No wonder Linda Naiman defines herself as a corporate alchemist, who turns leaden thinking into gold. Alchemy, the art of turning any trivial material into gold, is the perfect metaphor for the arts when applied to public or private institutions.

—Tatiana Chemi,Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Chair of Educational Innovation and author of Artbased Approaches