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

Are You at the Edge of What You Know?

When knowledge and information are infused with creativity and imagination an organization becomes engaged, alive and resilient. 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, Speaking and Special Event Presentations on all aspects of business, personal and organizational creativity - from individual 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 practices and visual mapping 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

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Upcoming Public
Workshops & Events

August 13: Improv for Leaders at the Capitol Creativity Network

September 6:
Improv for the Spirit at the Community for Spiritual Living

September 19-October 31: Creativity in Work Professional Development Program

December 19: Creative Facilitation Using Improv at the Mid-Atlantic Facilitator's Network

 

Latest News & Interviews

>>> For Michelle's interview on Emergence Coaching and entrepreneurism on the Solutions are Power blog, go to http://www.solutionsarepower.com

>>> For the podcast of Michelle's interview on Improv in the federal government with WTOP radio go to http://www.federalnewsradio.com

>>> For the podcast of Michelle's interview on Improv in business with the Innovise Guys go to http://dainnoviseguys.libsyn.com

>>> Precipice Improv is doing a series of 300 improvised vignettes for WBIG radio station(100.3fm) in Washington, DC in an innovative new radio format.