Speaking - Topics

Create Or Die: Thriving In The Create-On-Demand World
This 60 minute presentation diagnoses and clarifies the hidden dynamics that many create-on-demand pros feel within the context of the creative organization and challenges them to embrace their own creative growth as a means to thrive.

Manifesto: Embracing The Creative Mandate
This 60 minute presentation presents ten simple but challenging principles that can unleash us to be prolific, brilliant and healthy in their personal and organizational life.

The 5 Conversations Every Creative Team Needs To Have
This 60 minute presentation challenges creative teams to do the difficult work of engaging in conversation about the creative process rather than shooting shots "across the organizational bow."

You
This 60 minute presentation discusses the importance of understanding your own "unique voice", or "vocation", and how to bring it to your everyday personal and organizational creating. (Discussion points: excavating the resonant themes in your life, understanding occupation vs. vocation, unnecessary creating as a discipline, dying empty.)

Grow
This 60 minute presentation focuses on the "Phases of Creative Growth" and how creatives can stay engaged and thrive over the long-term. (Discussion points: the phases of creative growth, signposts for growth, developing disciplines around growth.)