About me
Hi, Marci Segal here. Welcome to my blog.
My purpose is to free people's thinking so they can create exciting new futures. I accomplish this through blogging, consulting, speaking and writing.
I'm a creativity professional, since 1984. My areas of expertise include creativity, innovation and psychological type with specific focus on people, methods, processes and environments that encourage openness to new ideas and new decisions.
I'm a graduate of the International Center for Studies in Creativity (MS in Creative Studies), have written books on creativity and personality type and have received numerous international awards.
In 2001, together with other Canadian creativity colleagues, I co-founded World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 which is celebrated every year, now, in more than 40 countries. It's intention: To encourage and engage people all over the world to use their creativity to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too, without causing harm.
creativityland inc. is an innovation and creativity consulting and training company providing human dimensions of innovation and creative-thinking consulting services, training and products, methodology and related services, conference presentations and keynotes, as well as senior course designers, trainers, facilitators and consultants specializing in creative thinking and problem solving, innovation and personality styles.
Contact: marci at creativityland.net
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Selling New Ideas – Getting ready
It’s a myth that people aren’t open to new ideas. They are, as long as they can see the benefit of what you are proposing. Just because you see the value of the suggestion doesn’t mean others will if you … Continue reading
Making new ideas happen. Sweat work required.
If you dream it, you can achieve it with sweat work to make it happen. Creativity is personal, innovation is societal. Your idea is involving, compelling and exciting and for you, how is it likewise for others? Do the work and … Continue reading
Grokking in fullness: the new empathy
As more and more people are experiencing dramatic shifts in their lives and businesses, and among friends, colleagues, family, I’m quick to respond using the phrase “I grok you in fullness” meaning, “I got it”, when they tell me or … Continue reading
Learn Futures thinking – free course from World Future Society
As interest in creativity and innovation is on the rise, so is futures thinking. The World Future Society offers a free email course on the fundamentals ‘foresight’ that will introduce you the discipline futurists use. It’s about 10 sessions in … Continue reading
More people quitting: job engagement cited
Half of people surveyed in a 2009 US study say they are dissatisfied with their work. More are quitting their jobs than expected. The recession staved that off for awhile, still workers are leaving because of their dissatisfaction, and not … Continue reading
A new six-level creative thinking outline for innovation
Context for Creativity and Innovation There are many different definitions of creativity: novelty that is useful is the one used by many Creativity Professionals. I like to take that understanding a little deeper to help clients appreciate that each person … Continue reading
The creativity and innovation mashup
In the Pirate’s Dilemma, author Matt Mason shows how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world works. Innovation, he says, occurs when people personalize their experience with products and services to create their own, often infringing … Continue reading
Creativity named #1 leadership skill for CEO’s over the next 5 years: Fast Company. What it means.
This just in. “For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking, according to a new study by IBM. The study is the largest known sample of one-on-one CEO … Continue reading
Change. What’s it all about? Appreciating the moment.
Flying home on Air Canada from a talk to the American Advertising Federation I was leafing through EnRoute, the airline’s in-flight magazine. I was intrigued by their announced changes to a more customer-centric orientation by providing new amenities, more space … Continue reading
Marci Segal
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