This presentation will explore the transformative power of effective questioning in creative problem-solving. Attendees will learn advanced techniques for crafting probing questions that uncover deeper insights and drive innovative solutions. Through practical exercises and real-world examples, participants will enhance their inquiry skills and stretch their capabilities to new heights.
Passionate educator, coach, and qualitative researcher that believes emotions and data come together through targeted stories that uncover actionable insights.
Unlock the power of business sketching to create stunning, clear, and engaging flipcharts for workshops, meetings, and sessions. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn the basics of sketching, discover design strategies for effective flipcharts, and create your own eye-catching flipchart. Walk away with practical tools to make your visual presentations more engaging and impactful.
In 2020 I contributed making visual notes for some of the workshops. In 2021 I facilitated an online workshop Cartoon Thinking. In my daily work I design and host workshops that help professionals and teams increase and use their creative thinking and doing more beneficial.
Problem solving implies a linear experience with a series of independent issues to be solved and moved on from. Life (and work) is messy, with changing variables and shifting priorities in the everyday systems we live and work in. Spotting patterns will stretch your change game from solving one problem that may be a success for today, to uncovering opportunities for shifting patterns for more sustainable change with broader impact.
New to independent contracting and freelance work.I help organizations, teams, and individuals who have a challenge or problem to solve and do not think they have the tools or time to solve it. I work with clients to:Position the user first, whether customer, employee or individual;Understand... Read More →
Facilitators, trainers, coaches, and change agents have all been there: your beautiful, brilliant, potentially life-changing training/presentation/session gets derailed by one or more resistant participants, who seem fully committed to sabotaging the event. You’ve tried everything that LinkedIn infographic recommended: smiling at them, selling the “WIIFMs,” negotiating with them. But still they won’t budge.
In this session, we’ll find more creative – and more effective – ways to address the situation. Participants will learn how to reframe the problem, engage with resistors in new ways, and leverage the potential that resistance holds for creating an even stronger session. We’ll see how a divergence/convergence approach can disarm opposition while modeling the kind of respectful and inclusive behaviors we want others to follow. And participants can share with each other what has worked – and not worked – in their own practices, to leave with an even fuller list of tools and resources for the next time a scowling attendee starts to fuss.
Discover how simple mark-making can break through traditional thinking barriers and stretch your problem-solving toolkit. This hands-on workshop introduces Possibility Books, an evidence-based method that uses abstract visual responses (no artistic skill required) to build creative confidence, embrace ambiguity, and generate unexpected connections. Participants will experience a series of guided prompts, which can be applied in classes and group facilitations, that demonstrate how reflection through mark-making followed by collaborative sharing can unlock new pathways for innovation.
What if the key to realizing your most impactful ideas wasn’t so much in what you do, but in how you align with the idea first? In this session, we’ll explore the often-overlooked creative alignment or “phase of being” so beneficial in the creative process—the inner work of engaging deeply with your idea(s). You’ll gain a new approach, practical tools and techniques to reflect on and strengthen your relationship with your idea, uncovering what excites you, what holds you back, and what support you need. Because aligning with your ideas isn’t just about creativity—it’s about fostering joy, clarity, and purpose along the way.
In 2020 I contributed making visual notes for some of the workshops. In 2021 I facilitated an online workshop Cartoon Thinking. In my daily work I design and host workshops that help professionals and teams increase and use their creative thinking and doing more beneficial.
In this session, we'll discuss how relentless curiosity can bring you face-to-face with the unknown, sometimes unearthing fear and usually requiring the opening of the vault of vulnerability in your mind. We'll discuss what works--and share what hasn't worked--as we face ambiguity and all that it brings. Ultimately, we will strive to shine a light on the pathway to freedom to take risks and achieve more even more than we hoped.
Troy Geesaman is Seed Strategy’s SVP of Strategy. He’s a connector in every sense, bringing together ideas and action; learning and context; humanity and leadership. As a proven innovator who has led the strategy and launch of several new products on both the client and agency... Read More →
This interactive session will explore how culture and communication styles shape creative processes. Using engaging activities, discussions, and real-world applications, participants will gain insights into the concepts of individualism/collectivism, high/low power distance, and high/low uncertainty avoidance and how they impact creativity.
Explore how neuroscience fuels creativity in this engaging, interactive workshop. You’ll uncover how key brain networks drive creative thinking and practice science-backed techniques like brainstorming with constraints and collaborative idea mapping to tackle challenges. Leave with actionable tools to spark innovation individually and within your teams.
Struggling to make your communications stand out? This session will help you uncover your brand's DNA and role in people’s lives, enabling you to express it in more extraordinary ways. Using proven brand archetyping tools, you'll leave with a unique brand personality and story to differentiate your future communications, whether you’re a solo-preneur, work inside of an organization, or want help defining your own personal brand.
Whether you are leading a team or facilitating a group, how you behave creates a working climate. The question is, are you creating the right kind of climate, one that helps those you lead engage, solve problems creatively, and use their collective talent to better the team or company? During this session you will discover how the climate you create can turn your efforts toward innovation or stagnation; you will see how developing a creative climate leads to measurable business results; you will learn about nine dimensions of climate; and walk away with tools to help build climate and stretch groups to new levels of innovation and change.
Techniques for generation and selection of ideas, explained in a simple way and combined with artificial intelligence (mind mapping, analogies, SCAMPER, and lateral thinking). We are going to explain how to apply these tools using a concrete example: Argentine “alfajores”. Everything is going to be shown with real-life examples, real and not widely known.
I have been dedicated to creativity for 35 years.My first CPSI was in 1991.I write books, give conferences, advise companies.I play the piano.I live in Argentina.
