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Creating Transformational Leadership for the Age of Innovation

VANCOUVER, July 26, 2008 / Ralph Kerle, CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific, and Linda Naiman, Founder of Creativity at Work, will host a three-day Leadership Forum in Vancouver, September 16 to 18, 2008.

“The great challenges faced by today's leaders demand the ability to instil passion, mobilize teams toward the achievement of a common vision, and motivate change in employees,” says Kerle. “The mark of an authentic artful leader in any organization is how well he or she is able to continually nurture creative relationships and conversations between all stakeholders to produce immediate value and long term viability.”

The Transformational Leadership Forum provides C-level executives and senior managers with immersion in ideas, thinking processes and strategies used by leading innovators in business, art and science. “This is an opportunity for business leaders to learn how collaborative thinking processes lead to creative breakthroughs, and the key principles, practices and tools artful leaders apply to create environments where creativity and sustained innovation flourish,” says Naiman. “For those responsible for building leadership and leading-edge thinking within organizations, these Master Classes deliver an exciting new perspective on leadership in the creative economy.”

Linda Naiman, founder of Creativity at Work, is recognized internationally as a pioneer in arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership. She helps organizations such as American Express, the U.S. Army and Placer Dome generate breakthroughs in business performance, through coaching, training and consulting. She is the co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork (Wiley), associate business coach at the University of British Columbia and an adjunct faculty member of the Banff Centre Leadership Lab.

Ralph Kerle is CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum and Founder of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia Pacific. He is a Council Member of the Creativity Association of Asia, a Chinese Government initiative; a member of the Advisory Board of Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management and Technology, Utter Pradesh, India; 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 U.S.-based think tank, the Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis.

As a former theatre director, he believes leaders learn better through reflection, experience and application than through theory. His internationally regarded senior executive programmes are designed around the use of theatre based processes as action learning.

For further information, to arrange interviews with Ralph Kerle or Linda Naiman, or to receive a media e-copy of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork:

Please contact
Lisa Canning,
Marketing Associate,
Creativity at Work:

Telephone 847.774.2938
email LisaCanning@mac.com.

More information on the Leadership Forum is available at www.creativityatwork/forum.htm

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