Audiences love learning how they can spark creative thinking and action through the stories and examples Marci shares. Her animated conference presentations challenge busy professionals to get over simple hurdles that stand in the way of their getting ahead. Marci’s a creativity professional of over 20 years and brings insightful reverence for the people for whom she speaks.  She eases people into appreciating and strengthening how they give to and experience the creative process and its outcomes.

Keynotes and Conference Presentations

7 Principles for Embedding Creativity and Innovation Everyday Challenges audiences to become innovation leaders, through story, research and industry insights.

Language and Leverage for Creative Thinking Differentiates creativity from innovation; provides rational, practice and wording to use to inspire and engage others’ creativity.

Creativity and Innovation: What’s style got to do with it? Gives pointers to encourage people with the different styles to use creative thinking methods.

Styles and the Creative Process: Which aspect of creating energizes you most? Explains the basic stages in the creative process with an added interpersonal feature. Some people are naturally attracted to certain and not necessarily all stages. Interested to discover your preferred best way you contribute to innovation?

Harnessing Imagination Shows how ‘feeling good’ research supports new thinking to create new futures.  Gives simple, easy to use non-embarrassing tools for thinking happy thoughts,

The presentations range from 45 – 90 minutes, customization is certainly an option. Each keynote has a complimenting workshop and support materials for deeper exploration and application. Here’s a clip of Marci explaining imagination, from a town hall keynote at Pfizer a few years ago.

You need some new ideas, creative, out-of-the box considerations. creativityland can lead your team through fun, interesting and involving provocations to  generate a variety of novel responses to your challenge. Bottom line to the success of an innovation facilitation is good intel, great clarity, amazing passion, and patience.

Setting the context is as important as the creating itself; brains, minds, bodies all need loosening up. We make sure to build a comfortable environment so participants feel secure, welcome to risk and open to trying new thoughts on for size.

When you are ready to move forward into the unknown, contact creativityland inc to design and facilitate an idea/innovation session to expand the realm of what’s possible.  We’ve got a number of skilled associates available and ready to help you create your next steps face to face and online.

Training Option New – Passport to Innovation (TM)

It’s not as if you can wave a magic wand and creativity appears in the workplace, though it would be nice, eh?  The systems in place, and the dynamics of internal politics influence the expression and spirit of creative thinking in organizations..

We know, and you know, that one-day workshops to learn skills are going the way of the dinosaur because they don’t work at transferring the desired skill to the workplace. creativityland inc developed Passport to Innovation(TM)(PTI)  about 10 years ago – as a program to influence incremental culture change to make innovation happen regularly.  PTI is a management training program that marries creativity and innovation research with skill building, action learning (aka trials) and coaching that reaches throughout the organization from ground up. Fred Forster, president and CEO of Media Agency of the Year PHD Canada, says that PTI, more than anything else, defined his agency with regards to the creative work they do.

Everyone wins in PTI because as the leaders involved learn new skills, they practice them with their associates to advance the business.  The leaders involved learn how to adjust their behaviour to engage creative thinking for innovation, how to encourage and support people to generate new ideas and carry out new decisions, and how to use a variety of creativity thinking tools and innovation methods to advance the business agenda.  As they learn together they develop as innovation professionals.  They build communities of collaboration, relearn how to value risk taking, set up new relationships, and walk the talk of leveraging creativity. Engagement levels rise through the ranks as the program ensues.  It’s amazing.

We’re proud of PTI and would be happy to share our Passport to Innovation stories with you.  Feel free to get in touch for a conversation.

Training Option Normal (sort of)

For organizations less likely to commit to something totally new, we also offer half, full-day, two-day and five-day training programs that heighten people’s abilities to

• sense opportunities and challenges
• define problems
• defer judgement and break away from habit bound thinking
• see new relationships
• evaluate ideas in full light of the consequences of one’s actions
• carry out new ideas
• observe carefully and discover often overlooked facts
• use checklists to discover new ideas
• refine strange ideas into useful ones
• use a methodological approach to problem solving
• become sensitive to and lead knowing the human dynamics of creation
• facilitate meetings
• work collaboratively and creatively

Perhaps there’s a package we can put together for you that makes sense.  Give us a call.

Organizations use personality styles to build teams, develop expert knowledge, create new ideas and make new decisions, and to enhance leadership communication.  Depending on your goal, creativityland can craft a workshop, work session, information session, keynote or interactive game in French and/or English to

• teach
• expose
• practice
• apply

personality styles to

• understand self
• understand others
• ease collaboration
• identify interpersonal growth opportunities

on your team, in your immediate work environment and throughout your organization.

Our associates use a variety of tools to do this, and given your situation, we’d recommend the tools that fits best among these and others we can source from our network:

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator® instrument
• DiSC®
• Personality Dimensions®/Temperament Theory
• Kirton Adaptor Innovator Inventory
• FourSight
• Interaction Styles

(fyi all creativityland associates are certified in at least one of a number of personality style instruments.  We are all sensitive to how styles impact  creative performance.  creativityland’s president and founder, Marci Segal, MS, in particular, is a world-recognized authority and pioneer connecting psychological type (MBTI® instrument theory) with creativity and the human dynamics of innovation.)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and MBTI are trademarks or registered trademarks of the MBTI Trust, Inc. in the United States and other countries. DiSC® is a registered trademark of Inscape Publishing. Personality Dimensions is a registered trademark of Career/LifeSkills Resources Inc.