Recognized
for Visionary Leadership in Fast Company's blog, Leading Change
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, 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, SpeakingSpecial Event
Presentations on all aspects of business, personal and organizational creativity - from and 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
NEW! We're hosting a Creativty in Business Conference,
Oct. 4. Click here for Sneak Preview
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Upcoming Public Workshops & Events
July 7-28: 4-week Whole
Brain Creative Facilitation Program. Click here for details!
July 1:Creativity
in Business presentation at Dante's Netconnecting Luncheon
May 16:Yes And and Beyond at the Project Renaissance Learning
and Creativity Doublefest
April 23: On
the Panel at Convergence '09
April 18:Where is Your Aliveness? at the Golden
Fleece Organizational Storytelling Conference
Latest News & Interviews >>> Michelle was named
a visionary leaderin the Fast Company Blog, Leading Change
>>> Michelle was interviewed
onEmergence Coaching and entrepreneurism on the Solutions are Power blog
>>> Michelle was interviewed on Improv in the federal governmentwith WTOP radio
>>> Michelle was interviewed
on Improv in business with da Innovise Guys
