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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.
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Did You Know…why creativity is important for leaders and managers
Organizations that win/create the future are rebels and subversives. They break rules, they cheat. (Gary Hamel, Competing for the Future, 1994). They use creative thinking processes and behaviors to invent exciting futures that are not extrapolations from the past. These … Continue reading
Is there a place for creativity in innovation?
Just back from the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Dynamics of Innovation conference in Bilbao, Spain. Its purpose: to support professionals who are influencing changes in business and government through open innovation and collaboration: external, implementation, networks, customers, management, … Continue reading
Creativity is fun and games for innovation professionals
At ISPIM. Opening keynote speakers say creativity is fun and games, used for idea generating alone. Show limited understanding of the scope of creativity. Seems they are unaware that creativity involves using new ideas and making new decisions. Creative thinking … Continue reading
Is innovation the new creativity?
At ISPIM, see the group, in their 30’s and 40’s. A family At ISPIM conference opening reception. They call themselves the family of innovation worldwide. 60% academics; 30% consultants and the rest entrepreneurs. They hug upon greeting; form international projects … Continue reading
When leading innovation, does the male/female ratio count?
I’m not sure, though it’s likely. It’s a question I’ll be putting forward at the International Society for Professionals in Innovation (ISPIM.org) conference in Bilbao, Spain in a few days. Here’s the story. We developed a program called Passport to … Continue reading
What does creativity mean to you, your boss, your clients?
The chart below, drawn from research done by the American Association of School Administrators and Americans for the Arts, shows the difference between how employers and school superintendents interpret what creativity means. How do you understand creativity? Is it the … Continue reading
New Creativity Master’s Degree in London, UK
When I decided to go to the International Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, NY to study creativity in 1977 many asked, “You are going where? Do do what? Can’t you study something real?” After earning the master’s degree … 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
Interest in Creativity and Innovation expected to rise.
According to Google Analytics, more and more people are searching for the terms “creativity and innovation” and are predicted to so in the future. Separately, searches for “innovation” and “creativity” are forecast to hold steady, with creativity at a slightly … Continue reading
Marci Segal
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