Presenters for 2008
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CoChair, Saturday, 2:45 - e-Creativity: Collaborative Creativity Using Web
2.0 Marcia teaches creatively and fulltime at Webber International University in the area of computers and business statistics and is an adjunct online professor for SouthUniversity Online. Marcia has a wonderful time living and learning and applying the many concepts learned from everywhere. She has presented a variety of e-Creativity sessions for both education and business. Marcia also consults on Word, PowerPoint, Access databases, and Excel spreadsheets. Email: profmberkey@hotmail.com |
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Robert Alan
Black, Ph.D.
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Saturday, 9:00 - Drawing as a Way of Thinking
Alan has been drawing since he could pick up something that made marks
on his bedroom walls. Though his mother didn’t appreciate that, he kept
on drawing for fun and to communicate because he could not actually
speak until his was about 6 years old. Over the next 30 years he became
a licensed award-winning architect, graphic & signage designer, interior
and industrial designer, plus a television news writer and editor before
volunteering one day a week as a gifted education teacher for 22
academically gifted elementary school children. That volunteer work led
him on over 30 year journey as a creative thinking consultant who
wanders the world focusing on developing Cre8ng Communities throughout
entire companies and organizations from their front or rear doors to
their top floor through individual consulting or as part of teams of
creativity colleagues from around the globe. His companies are: Cre8ng
People, Places & Possibilities and CP3 Consultants. Each day when he
wakes up he sees life as “a creative journey, not a guided tour.”
http://www.cre8ng.com/
Email:
alan_cre8ng@yahoo.com |
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| John Frederick |
Saturday All-Day Youthwise Program |
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Ted Coulson, Ph.D. |
Saturday, 2:45
Ted is co-founder of
Applied Creativity, Inc. a consulting firm dedicated to assisting
individuals and organizations in reaching their creative potential. Ted has
consulted with numerous fortune 50 companies and other organizations
worldwide on creativity and the effective management of innovation. He is
the creator of the game Diversity which explores mental diversity and
co-author of Wow! How Did They Think of That? The Principles of Creativity.
Ted's currently expressing his creativity in the realm of nature/wild life
photography and his latest adventure took him on a photo excursion of the
Eastern Everglades of Florida. |
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Lynn
Frankel
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Saturday All-Day Youthwise Program |
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Carla Gull |
e-Creativity: Collaborative Creativity Using Web 2.0 - Carla will be
participating through VOIP via Fernley, Nevada Carla currently combines her love for cultures and religion through teaching classes in multicultural diversity and world religions online. She previously taught elementary Spanish immersion classes for the Department of Defense in Germany and Japan. Other educational and missionary opportunities took her to Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Spain. Considering herself a life-long learner and educator, she's enjoying caring for her two small children, working on her dissertation on distance education. |
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Katherine O.
Heusner, Ph.D.
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CoChair and All Day Friday: KaleidoscopicPhotos: An Exercise in Reflection; Kitty is Co-Chair of this conference and is a lifelong learner who has been involved in education as a student (PreK à PhD) and professional for fifty years. She has also made a lifelong commitment to community involvement. Currently she teaches graduate level courses in education, serves on the Board of Directors for Girls Scouts of GulfCoast, Florida and is actively involved in the Creative Education Foundation as a new member on the Board of Trustees and as a long-time leader at CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute). She is the Co-Chairman for Florida Creativity Weekend III. Sharing with family and friends both at home in Sarasota and around the world, traveling and photography also bring her great joy. Email: flcreativity3@aol.com or HHeusner@aol.com. |
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John Holcombe, M.A. |
Saturday 9:00: Inquiry: Tools & Techniques for Gathering Qualitative Data and
10:45: Teaching Young People to Think More Creativity. John is VP of Insights Marketing Group in Miami (IMG). He has years of marketing research experience and many multinational clients for whom he develops creative solutions to their marketing challenges. John is an active member of the Qualitative Research Consultant Association (QRCA), and is on the Executive Board of the Creative Education Foundation (CEF). He is a frequent speaker before business groups and conferences on business and marketing, and has contributed articles and interviews to several publications including Business Week, Advertising Age, Bloomberg Online, and The Wall Street Journal. Email: john@insights-marketing.com |
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Connie Howard |
Sunday, 9:00 - Wind Chimes: Catching the wind and light for reflections. Connie is a generous, creative soul whose insight and creativity will inspire to create your own masterpieces. Connie has organized volunteers for many charities including Habitat for Humanity. She works for FCCI in Sarasota, FL and dotes on her many grandchildren. |
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Tim Hurson |
Saturday 10:45: Great Answer (Wrong Question) and Sunday 9:00: Rapid
Protocepting Founding partner of thinkx intellectual capital. No group is ever quite the same after hearing Tim Hurson speak. With an energetic blend of insight and humor, Tim teaches audiences what many already know in their hearts: that Creative Intelligence is the essence of human potential. Moreover, creative intelligence is not a gift given to few, but a set of skills everyone can cultivate. Tim is one of North America's pioneers of idea marketing. Throughout his career, Tim has helped major corporations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom create innovation, marketing, new product, and workplace transformation programs. He has also written numerous articles on improving creative intelligence both in the workplace and at home. His popular and helpful book on Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking which we got to hear about and 'see' last year is now available. |
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Sherry Kessel |
Sherry is
currently the Director of Adult Development for the Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast
Florida. Providing training opportunities for the over 3,000 adult volunteers is
no small task! She began college majoring in physical education and then
completed her degree in Organizational Development/BusinessAdministration.
Sherry ‘speaks’ fluent sign language and serves as the signer for her church.
She is active in ASTD and as a volunteer with the Manatee Players. Sherry has
also taught motorcycle safety. She and her husband, Don are currently
enjoying working on their antique car, a ’58 Corvette. Email:
SherryK@GSGCF.org |
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Marsha Jordan, MBA, M.Ed. |
Saturday 2:45: Team Building Prior to starting proACTive software, Marsha held various positions in sales and technical software/organization training. She is a trainer and team builder extraordinaire! She earned a bachelor's degree in marketing and masters degrees in business administration and adult education. Her success has been the result of hard work and attention concentrated on satisfying the needs of her clients. Marsha is the owner of proACTive software, and pulls from a creative business background to help clients achieve their goals. An accomplished software trainer, Marsha’s on-site training and skill in configuring programs to meet individual client’s needs helps her clients improve their efficiency in using office productivity software as well as financial software. |
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Joe Miguez |
8:15 - Labyrinth Meditations each morning; SWAP Meet: Lab Labyrinth; and
Saturday 10:45: Celebrating What is Right with the World Joe is nationally known as the “labyrinth man” and has built a consulting practice based on stimulating creativity in individuals and groups to achieve personal and organizational innovation. Facilitator, change agent and labyrinth builder, Joe has worked with clients from major corporations, media, colleges, schools and religious retreat centers. He has conducted workshops in Mexico, Canada, Europe and the U.S. His professional commitment is to focus on inspiring reflection-in-action, step-by-step. |
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Liz Monroe-Cook, Ph.D.
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Sunday 9:00, Polarity Mapping: A Path to Understanding Liz is a consulting psychologist focusing on individual, group and organizational effectiveness through creative thinking, the polarity perspective and the factors of “emotional intelligence.” She calls Chicago home. Her independent practice includes facilitation, training, qualitative research, public speaking, counseling and psychotherapy. A rich array of work settings and clients – academic, corporate, government and nonprofit – has given Liz many opportunities to “manage polarities.” She serves as a leader at the Creative Problem Solving Institute, is a graduate of the Mastery Program in Polarity Management™ and is a consultant affiliate of Polarity Management Associates and thinkx intellectual capital. |
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Nancy Myers |
CoChair; Saturday 9:00:
Divergent & Convergent Thinking
Strategies Co-Chair, Nancy's extensive work with Fortune 500 companies led to Seeds for Change, her program for empowering people in the midst of increasing change. Nancy custom designs programs for organizations in these turbulent times to increase employees' and teams' emotional intelligence, creativity, and peak performance. Nancy also coaches individuals and teaches teleclasses. She is a Trainer for Heartmath, a Charter Associate Partner of George Land's Leadership 2000, a trainer in thinking styles., Foundations of Productivity and is experienced in Leadership and Team Building training. In her free time Nancy studies and performs ballroom dancing, enjoys live theater, opera and cinema, and performs in community theater. She goes scuba diving, travels and enjoys riding her Harley. She is also active as a community volunteer with non-profit agencies and organizations. Contact Nancy directly at 941.929.0809 or 941.320.1773. Nancy also arranges dream vacations online through www.bighearttravel.com. Email: nancybigheart@earthling.net. |
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Susan Newhouse |
Friday Evening Keynote Speaker: Catch Your Own Creativity Wave As Vice President of Idea Architects, Susan leads a variety of early innovation charges, including consumer connects, insight development, concept development, and concept optimization. She also leads Super Group® ideation sessions to inspire ideas for new products, services, promotions, packaging, and more. Susan possesses the unique ability of cultivating and maintaining a high-energy creative environment which allows individuals to flourish, but her true gift lies in the characters she brings to life in sessions. |
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Saturday 9:00: Saturday 9:00: Inquiry: Tools & Techniques for Gathering
Qualitative Data
Belkist founded and is President of Insights Marketing Group, Inc. (IMG) She is an experienced and creative qualitative researcher. Belkist is bilingual and bicultural and innovatively works with domestic and international businesses in many different industries. She has shared her talents in many venues and earned several awards for outstanding service and performance. Email: belkist@insigts-marketing.com |
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Marcia & Alan Schulte |
Saturday, 2:45 - Healthy Living & Positive
Aging: Using Quantum Tools to Expand Your Consciousness Marcia was an art teacher in Ohio and did her graduate work at Case Western Reserve while she was also at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has helped to start several children's art programs in Sarasota including bringing Sarasota Season of Sculpture to middle school classes. She and her husband Allan, who is also an artist, own Quantum Wellness Center. |
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Alison Strickland |
Saturday, 9:00 - Keeping a
Reflective Journal |
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William Sturner, Ph.D |
Saturday Afternoon Keynote * He is a former editor with Sperry-Rand and research assistant to the editor of The Washington Post. * His university appointments have included professorships at three American universities, vice presidencies at two, and visiting professorships at the universities of Buffalo State, Santiago de Compostela, Limerick, Moscow State, Istanbul and Malta. * He is also a Senior Facilitator for the Creative Problem Solving Institute, and has for the last forty years offered training and consulting throughout the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. His consulting focuses on organizational change (Impact International), and offering workshops on personal and transpersonal psychology at the Open Heart Sanctuary, his 14-acre retreat center in East Aurora,NY. EMail: wfsturner@mac.com |
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Rebecca Tracey |
Each morning at 8:00 Gentle Stretch Becca currently lives in New York City and has a busy life as a massage therapist and student. She will complete her masters degree program in Acupuncture/Chinese Medicine in December. Her earlier studies focused on theater performance and she continues to dabble in the field. She has been involved with creativity in many ways and has been attending and, more recently, leading at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) since 1984. Friends, family, her cat and dog, and spending time enjoying the arts also add joy to Becca’s life. Email: meridiyin@yahoo.com |
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RedZebra |
RedZebra
Integrated Insights is a global leader in organizational change and
community outreach. As an innovative organizational development company, we
design custom interactive workshops and trainings that enhance corporate and
community environments. With over ten years experience applying proven
rhythm and creativity techniques, RedZebra helps inspire change, unite
individuals, and harvest insights for organizations all over the world. The RedZebra
team members joining us at Florida Creativity Weekend are: Tañia
Plascencia, and Jesse Wallace. |
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Jennifer
Joy Walker |
Saturday,
9:00 - Full Color Living |
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Susan Wenger
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Saturday, 2:45: Happiness! Susan has retired from the federal government. Previously she taught Philosophy and English. She enjoys humor, puzzles and wordplay. Susan is a member of Mensa and Intertel, and is the coordinator for Mensa's Patrick O'Brian Special Interest Group. She is the author of The Port-Wine Sea, co-author of Your Limitless Inventing Machine, and author of The Better Baby, a new book about raising happy geniuses. She has taught workshops at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) and at other creativity venues both in the USA and abroad. Susan and her husband Win call Montgomery Village, Maryland home. Email: susanwengermail@yahoo.com |
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Win Wenger,
Ph.D.
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Saturday, 10:45 - Discovering Consensus in a Bitterly Divided World Win is a researcher, trainer, author of 50 published books, and a pioneer of both new creativity and Creative Problem Solving methods and accelerated learning methods. He has taught at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) for nearly thirty years and frequently leads workshops around the world. He and his wife, Susan call Montgomery Village, Maryland home. http://www.winwenger.com/ Email: WWenger101@aol.com |
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Jack Wolf,
Ph.D. |
Friday
PreWeekend Workshop (9-4:30): Creativity in
the New Millennium and Saturday 9:00: The 7 Principles of Lifelong learning Jack has 31 years as an Internationally experienced facilitator, trainer and speaker with clients including the Government of Hong Kong, the University of Mexico, the FedEx Leadership Institute, HBO, Starbucks and GE. Jack is a former trainer for Jack Canfield's Self-Esteem Seminars and has presented classes at the creative Problem Solving Institute for over 10 years. He has the company Jack Wolf Learning and has written many articles and the book Powerful Presentation Techniques. . Email: jackwolf@ij.net |
