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Recognized for Visionary Leadership in
Fast Company's
blog,
Leading Change


Creativity Consulting, Coaching & Training
For Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Teams & Organizations

Are You at the Edge of What You Know?

When knowledge and information are infused with creativity and imagination an organization becomes engaged, resilient and generative. We partner with our clients to become a creative organization by:

• Going from what's wrong to what's next
• Unlocking the collective intelligence and ingenuity of teams
• Integrating purpose, passion, profit and serving the good of the whole
• Establishing a culture where creativity, improvisation and innovation are the norm
• Harnessing the self-organization of creative systems for sustainable new solutions

What We Offer

We offer Consulting, Workshops, Programs, Train-the-Trainer, Retreats, Coaching, Presentations and Events on all aspects of business, personal and organizational creativity - from individual creativity and emergence coaching to team co-creativity to organizational culture development. See our Approach and Services pages for details.

Creative Breakthroughs

We work with you and your organization to achieve measurable breakthroughs. We help you unlock and focus your creative resources in grounded and practical ways that serve your organization’s mission; meet the business bottom line; facilitate new knowledge creation and innovation; and shape, frame and evolve new outcomes.

Our Discerning Focus is Emergence

Our signature Emergence Focus™ uses what is relevent in both problem-focused and outcome-focused approaches, and includes a new dimension:

Problem Focus
Outcome Focus
Emergence Focus
Past
Future
Now and Future
What's Wrong
What's Desired
What's Emerging
Control
Influence 
Explore & Engage
Outside Experts  
Collaboration 
Cocreation
What's Missing 
Known Resources
Unseen Resources
Determine
Answer 

Discover

Analysis 

Goals with Action

Unfolding

Isolate
Combine
Integrate & "Yes And"
Problems
Results
Opportunities & Invitations
Solve  
Develop 
Transform
Unknown is Dangerous
Unknown is Controllable
Unknown is Creative
Thinking
Acting
New Way of Being

Where the Known and the Unknown Meet

Our clients are on that edge. We help individuals and organizations work in unknown territory and learn to use it as a business resource. We use our Creative Emergence Process and an integration of proven whole-brain methods which include emergent strategy, storytelling, improvisation, body-centered and visual practices to name a few. What emerges are novel ideas, profound insights, visionary innovations, surprising directions, new structures and next-level solutions. People feel a sense of purposeful contribution as inspired results are achieved.

New Directions, Services, Products, Approaches and Systems

• Breakthrough thinking and innovative applications
• Designing environments conducive to creativity
• Unlocking and focusing the imagination of your employees
• Harnessing the productive power of diversity and different creative styles
• Implementing structures and systems to contain and focus the new creativity energy

We produced a sold-out Creativity in Business Conference in DC:
creativity-conference.com
Check out conference videos and pics!
 
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Upcoming Public
Workshops & Events
 
2 NEW Public Programs in September. Info and registration will be up soon.

October 5: Integral Improv
at Integral-DC
 
Sept. 30: Creative Thinking at
 
August 16: Creative Women using Social Media panelist - DC Social Media Examiner
 
June 18: Improvisation and designing for co-creativity at TEDx Creative Coast 

June 16:  Improv for Creative Collaboration: On and Offline at Digital Capital Week 
 
June 4: Improv for Leaders at Ignite!Conference
 
May 15: Foundational Creativity at Project Renaissance Doublefest
 
May 5: Bring Your Whole Brain to Work at Appreciative Inquiry DC
 
March 11: Hosting Dialogue with Dan Pink on his new book, Drive in DC

 

Latest News & Interviews

 
Interviewed by Career Buzz radio

Presented at TEDxCreativeCoast
 
Interviewed by ConsciousSHIFT radio
 
Interviewed by Creative Liberty blog

Creativity in Business Conference videos and photos
 
Named a visionary leader in Fast Company's Blog, Leading Change

Interviewed on Solutions are Power blog

Interviewed on Improv in the government by WTOP radio