What Participants Said

Sometimes we feel we can not go beyond our ideas and creativity comes to a stall. Art can liberate that feeling and help us look inside ourselves, then we realize there are more ideas than we can imagine and they start to flow. This program helped me look inside myself and understand we just need to let our mind flow and with the help of art as a base for creativity we can go beyond our imagination. We are all artists in our own way.
I plan to use the tools and processes [from the forum] at our organization's strategic brainstorming sessions.
—Yandia Perez, Managing Director, Baxter Sales & Distribution Corp. PR

The Transformational Leadership Forum provided a wonderful opportunity to come together in a learning community with gifted facilitators and forum participants all of whom were committed to integrity and innovation in leadership. I can use almost all in the facilitation work that I do in Creativity; Intercultural Awareness/Competence; Decision-making/Problem-Solving.
—Nola Stuckert, Apostrophe S

"Thoughtful and wise facilitation, Linda paid such kind and close attention to the fine points of interaction, agenda, content and expertly guided our creativity - guided gently but with compelling insight. Tricky stuff with participant-leaders who have their own minds and need to make that shift to listen, be still and learn. Linda managed this beautifully and also, intriguingly, sought out strangely divergent content to weave into the experience.

"My scepticism and wonder lead me to marvel after each presentation. How does this topic and this lawyer have something to do with creativity and leadership? "Wow, Linda did it again" was my thought following each very stimulating presentation. She pulled together the most unlikely practices into the stream and incorporated it into a beautiful flow.

"Again, our co-facilitators will work out their dance as they move forward... determining who will lead at the most auspicious moments towards a uniquely beautiful choreographed piece."
-Forum Participant

The Creative Leadership Forum was a very rewarding experience. I highly recommend it.
— Tatsuya Nakagawa, President and CEO Atomica Creative Group Ltd.

The sessions provided an opportunity to revisit a long forgotten life defining moment.
—Paul Winn, President - COO, The Great Little Water Company

Linda Naiman and Ralph Kerle use the arts to provide an extraordinary context to see into the lenses of leadership and innovation on both a personal and organizational level. While the arts can be perceived as serving no greater function than being a source of entertainment, when individuals engage in the experiential process of their own discovery through them, they serve as a catalyst for transformative learning, as evident by this workshop.
—Lisa Canning, founder, Entrepreneur the Arts

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Linda Naiman		Ralph Kerle

Transformational Leadership
for the Age of Innovation

Sept 16-18, 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada

Master Classes presented by global pioneers in arts-based learning for business:
Ralph Kerle CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific
and Linda Naiman founder of Creativity at Work

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Seating is limited to 25 participants per master class.

“Business isn’t some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine — a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But ‘enterprise’ ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It’s about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It’s about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.” — Tom Peters

Immerse yourself in ideas, thinking processes and strategies used by leading innovators in business, art and science. Discover how art can be used as a catalyst for transformation and how collaborative thinking processes can lead to creative breakthroughs that will give you the competitive edge and increase profitability. Learn key principles, practices and tools you can apply to create a workplace environment where creativity and sustained innovation flourish.

Why Transformational Leadership?

The economic future of an organization depends on its ability to create wealth by fostering innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal. Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. 

The mark of an authentic artful leader in any organization is how well an organizations leader is able to continually nurture the creative relationships and conversations between all stakeholders; in order to produce successful immediate value and long term viability.

Who Should Attend?

C+ Executives, Senior Managers in Innovation, Design, Strategy, Strategic Thinking, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Cultural Change.

If it is your responsibility to build creative leadership and leading-edge thinking in your organisation, then these Master Classes will deliver an exciting new perspective on leadership.

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Speaker Profiles

Ralph Kerle

Ralph Kerle, is CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum and founder of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia Pacific. He is a global consultant, presenter, programme designer and writer on creative leadership.

Ralph is a Council Member of the Creativity Association of Asia, a Chinese Government initiative; a former Board Member and a member of the International Committee of the US Creative Education Foundation; a Leader in the US Creative Problem Solving Institute and a Fellow of the US-based think tank — the Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis. He is faculty adjunct at the Banff Centre Leadership Lab, and a member of the Advisory Board of Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and Technology, Utter Pradesh, India.

In 1992, he founded Eventures Australia Pty. Ltd and built into one of Australia’s leading event design and production companies. As Creative Director, he worked for such Fortune 500 companies as Caltex, Fosters, Dairy Farmers, Foxtel, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Rolls Royce, Peugeot, Toyota, Telstra, Walt Disney, and Yellow Pages.

He is a former Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company. He is a drama graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, holds a Masters Degree in Creative Industries and is currently completing his Professional Doctorate in Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Australia.
He is a writer, theatre and events producer and director, a former owner of a comedy cabaret and a published photographer.

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Linda Naiman

Linda Naiman, founder of Creativity at Work, is recognized internationally for pioneering arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership in organizations.

Linda is co-author with Arthur VanGundy of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork (Wiley 2003). She has been featured in The Vancouver Sun, The New Zealand Herald, The Globe and Mail, Profitguide.com, Canadian Business Magazine, and interviewed on CBC Radio.

Linda is an associate business coach at the University of British Columbia and an adjunct faculty member of the Banff Centre Leadership Lab. Her courses are part of the management certification program at Royal Roads University and within HR training and development at UBC.

Clients include Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and boutique consultancies in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Linda holds a BFA from California College of the Arts, a diploma in graphic design from Emily Carr Inst of Art and Design, and a business coaching certificate from Corporate Coach University. She is a life-long artist and believes in making life and work a work of art.

Lisa Canning

Lisa Canning, founder of Entrepreneur the Arts is a pioneering female music entrepreneur who launched her first entrepreneurial venture from her dorm room at Northwestern University. As a serial entrepreneur for over twenty years, Lisa Canning has created not one but four multi-million dollar ventures that each experiences double digit growth for seventeen of the last twenty years.  Her current business,  Lisa's Clarinet Shop LisasClarinetShop.com,  requires less than twenty hours a week to produce a six figure income.

As an accomplished clarinetist, Canning has performed with members of the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony.

Lisa has been honored by The National Association of Women Business Owners as Business Owner of The Year, featured on Music Trades Top 200 List of Music Retailers in the United States for ten consecutive years, and was named a Distinguished Business Leader for The State of Illinois by President George W. Bush.

David Fushtey

As principal of The Governance Counsel, David Fushtey, LLB, developed the principles and practices of a Principled Governance™ and Governance Platform™ approach to strategic oversight and decision-making, and has advised senior executives from Canada, China and Italy. He specializes in governance literacy within hybrid organizations that bring together public and private interests; his achievements include international commercial transactions from Chicago to Kuala Lumpur to Washington, D.C., in telecommunications, land development and technology development enterprises.

David's expertise in governance is informed by his study and practice of innovation and creative process. A Senior Planner of Expo 86, and a member of international urban-design competition teams, he has studied visual and theatre arts and plays the double-bass. A recognized commercial sculptor, David has taught three-dimensional art to special needs children, and developed a StoneWorks program to help street-involved youth apply creativity and reclaim respect. He also works with the commercialization of creative processes, most recently as an advisor to a team in the Masters of Digital Media program.

As an international commercial lawyer, he specialized in intellectual property development and management, including the development of an Innovation Locomotion program. He has chaired the Vancouver City Planning Commission, and has been an advisor to and director of Design British Columbia and The Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale group.

Catherine Mutala

Catherine Mutala LLB, is a senior partner with Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala who specialises in intellectual property law – including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. She was a member of the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board from 1990 to 1995 and has lectured on trademark law for both the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia (since 1986) and the University of Victoria. She contributed to the Copyright Society of America sponsored Kamenstein Legislative History Project on the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, has published numerous papers on trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property law topics and is a frequent lecturer at Continuing Legal Education programs. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and the Trademark Association of British Columbia.