Creative Emergence

Consciously Creating What's Next

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Whole-Brain Creativity Workshops, Trainings, Retreats, and Coaching Programs

Creating the Foundations to Birth something Generative and Purposeful into the World – and having Fun doing it!
Michelle's book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity, is available online!
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Creative Self Winter Program Take a creative deep dive! Starts Dec. 4, 2024
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  • Supporting you in:
  • Going from what's wrong to what's next - and what's alive
  • Creative thinking/being, creative leadership, creative team building
  • Creative facilitation and creative coaching trainings
  • Unlocking the creative intelligence and ingenuity of teams
  • Drawing out the unique creative gifts of individuals
  • Integrating people, purpose, passion, profit, and play
  • Engaging principles and practices for creative solution finding
  • Embodying generative skill-sets, mind-sets, and heart-sets
  • Using the unknown as a creative resource; activating the imagination
  • Becoming more adaptive, resilient, and improvisational
  • Having more fun and feeling more connected at work
How? Using an original Integrative Approach based on over two decades of research and experience in the field, learning by doing.

Unique. Original. Customized. Fun.

Engaging Creative Experience Design and Delivery for Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Teams, and Organizations

Creativity and Innovation • Improvisation • Creative Leadership • Creative Work Cultures • Creative Process Facilitation • Creative Coaching • Strategic Emergence • Team Co-creation • Play, Aliveness, and the Creative Spirit • Personal and Professional Development
  • Whole-Brain Creative Facilitation
  • Improv & Story-based Facilitation
  • Creativity for Coaches
  • Creative Facilitation Certification
  • Trainer Training workshops
  • Creative Emergence Coaching
  • Creative Facilitation Coaching
  • Creativity for Coaches
  • Coaching Programs
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CREATIVITY NETWORK
Applied Creativity Network on Facebook focused on applied creativity in work and life
INTERVIEWS & TALKS
Podcasts and videos of public interviews and talks
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Facilitated Workshops and Events Open to the Public - On and Offline

Who we Serve

  • Organizations ready to adapt, imagine, innovate, and cultivate creative solutions
  • Teams who want effectively cocreate together to generate ideas, products, and services
  • Leaders who want to inspire creative ingenuity from their employees and themselves
  • Entrepreneurs seeking to create new business directions, products, and services
  • Creators, innovators, and inventors wanting to get the creative juices flowing more consistently
  • Professional facilitators and coaches bringing more creativity, aliveness, and originality into their work
  • Anyone looking to create what's next within uncertainty and the unknown

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Public Event Presentations

What They Say

Michelle taught the Applied Improv for Leadership Workshops at PepsiCo and they were "Dynamic, Positive, Inspirational, Engaging, Fun, Exciting, Interesting, Energizing, and Transformational." For a group of seasoned project managers, it was a really nice opportunity to discover new ways of problem solving & creating. The virtual workshops she offered were a great chance to connect with each other as a team & individually.
erin giamundo
SC Integration Manager PepsiCo
Michelle is my mentor for teaching facilitation skills employing Improv principles and practices. She built a section of my training manual that has served facilitators around the world. She is a walking treasure trove of creative insights and possibilities. I adore every minute collaborating with her and recommend her highly.
paul ScHeele
CEO Scheele Learning Systems
Michelle did her homework before the workshops she did with us, rather than offering 'canned' presentations. The safe, non-judgemental environment helps our very diverse group open up right away, and Michelle keeps the freshness and energy going throughout the day. I see the positive impact on how we work and what we create together.
julia dubner
GEICO Marketing
Michelle developed an active and customized innovation learning experience for our participants. She exceled at making them relevant and applicable to work. It was a pleasure to work with her and we look forward to doing so again.
Eric Kammerer
Instructional Design Specialist Dominos
Michelle's creative influence has been felt throughout the organization. Michelle brought to Kaiser a great deal of perspective and insight into the creative process that we've used during the planning stages of projects, at meetings, for problem solving, and with teams. She introduced creative thinking into a large project which hugely impacted the creative output of all the groups working on that initiative.
Steve pereira
Director of Learning and OD Kaiser Permanente
Thank you, Michelle, for always delivering outstanding and impactful Improv for Leaders and Creative Thinking programs for the LDS executives. I am so glad you are able to continue to provide your field experience for the LDS program.
Heath Harding
LDS Program ManagerFederal Executive Institute
Your TRME Conference session was my favorite. I’ve participated in lots of brainstorming/actionability sessions over the years. I like your exercises because they are fun and they require you to use creative thinking so they are an ideal warm up to any business related creative exercise.
tom johnson
Director of Consumer InsightsDel Taco LLC
Your Improv for Sales workshop was a profound and transformative experience for our sales team. Thank you!
jason schwartz
Vice President of Sales Clean Currents
Michelle's well-thought out plan achieved every one of our goals. It broke the ice and tore down walls. I'm so grateful she shared her talents with us. It was terrific!
charles miller
President, Persuadable Research Corporation
Thank you for facilitating the Creative Thinking workshop at LMI. What a breath of fresh air to our mostly “left brain” thinking organization! You have a noticeable passion for what you do, which probably helps explain why you are so good at it!
brandon hill
Senior Associate LMI Ventures
Michelle is a great faciliator and the principles and games are fantastic! Just what we needed to freshen our training sessions!
angela churchill
OD Specialist Department of HHS
Michelle is a dynamic and innovative leader, consultant and coach. Her approach is results focused, utilizing her expertise in creativity and complexity science. She has created a truly integrative approach that helps great things emerge for individuals, teams, and organizations.
tom solomon
Change Management Consultant, Celerity
You did an amazing job facilitating the Creative Thinking workshop today and I have heard nothing but good feedback from the participants!! Thank you. Exhale and smile.
TAMMY NEILE
Training Director VHDA
Michelle worked with us to create an applied improv workshop that helped students see how improv can apply to the interviewing process. She put together improv exercises that taught our members how to better think on their feet and how to feel comfortable in ambiguous situations. Michelle is an engaging, fun, and an all around great person to work with!
ellen sands
VP Events Net Impact UVA
Thank you for your Creative Facilitation at the Appreciative Inquiry DC Gathering. I just want to let you know how much it meant to everyone and that we have received a number of thank you's and compliments for such a wonderful evening!
deborah maher
Touchtone Consulting
You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who better understands the essential principles at the heart of the creative process, and how to apply them to any business context. And as a group facilitator, Michelle ranks among the best at unleashing energy, insight, and group connection. Her applied improv work is a dramatic way to add creative breakthroughs to any company gathering. People will be talking and buzzing about Michelle's session for a long time to come. And everyone will have fun to boot!
michael margolis
CEO, Storied Author of Story 10X
One of Michelle's facilitated experience helped me create a popular new puzzle product! Right there, during her process, the ideas all came together in a blinding flash, and the design sprang fully formed from my deeper consciousness as her process opened the way to new insights and a successful new product.
kate jones
President Kadon Enterprises
Michelle is multi-talented and an expert in (re) training individuals and groups in re-finding that creative spark! It was an honor and privilege to have her as a guest on our TV show. Her contribution to the discusssion was outstanding. She was clear, conscise, informative, yet personable. My gratitude is immense.
Daria Brezinski
Psychologist Psycholigist, Professor, Producer
Michelle has developed what will certainly be the next big thing in personal and organizational change. Combining improv theatre, group dynamics, intuition, body intelligence and the untapped creativity of the unconscious mind, Michelle seamlessly integrates these power tools as if this new discipline already existed - and with transformative and measurable results.
robbe richman
Culture Architect Author of The Culture Blueprint
Michelle is the human equivalent of a creative energy drink. She's got a phenomenal style and ability to see into situations and extract the essence of them...then make them digestible for others. Every time I have a chance to speak or interact with her, I come away feeling enriched and like my mind has expanded by at least a few miles. If you are looking for someone to help you understand how to think creatively in a dynamic world, Michelle is one of those people.
jeremy epstein
@Gtmhub Chief Marketing Officer
I have attended a number of workshops created by Michelle . She is very talented, genuine, creative, energetic. She knows her stuff. I am also impressed with her breadth of offerings, her pulse on business, and her ability to attract equally creative, committed entrepreneurs. She also has much integrity and ensures that everyone has a positive experience. She is always evolving and has a pulse on business and is a consummate networker, although she does it in genuine, low key ways.
barbara halpern
President Marketing Momentum
Michelle's Creativity Emergence Program was life changing. I came up with a breakthrough new idea for my business...and I found myself easily completing tasks that I had procrastinated about for years. Each workshop was a joy to attend. Michelle is very gifted as a facilitator, able to gently encourage steps into the unknown that might be very frightening if attempted alone.
michaela light
CEO TeraTech
I am amazed, energized and relieved at how much I was able to pull together for my work and self. It was clearly the right decision for me to do Michelle's Creativity for Entrepreneurs workshop. This is profound stuff and what I was seeking. And it was FUN. It was joyful when I got one "it" after another.
karen buehler
President K.L. Buehler and Associates
Michelle's ability to facilitate the integration of left brain analytical frameworks with the right brain imagination and ways of being is impeccable – solid, compassionate, and articulate. Her Creativity in Work workshop is for those serious about discovering and implementing their creativity in their work - in tangible ways - and learning a solid process to do so.
lynne feingold
Government Analyst Consultant, Coach, Author