Marguerite has been a facilitator of Mindfulness Meditation in the tradition of Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh for 7 years though the Peaceful Heart Mindfulness Community in Buffalo, New York. (www.buffalomindfulness.org) She is a member of the Buffalo Zen Dharma Community. (www.buffalodharma.org) -She was a member of the Toronto Diamond Approach(www.diamondapproachtoronto.org) which is a spiritual path based on open ended inquiry that allows one to develop precise awareness devoid of judgment. Marguerite is a longstanding educator and is one of six founders of a charter school, The Elmwood Village Charter School located in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed three years as an assistant professor of education at D’Youville College. She is currently a Faculty Development Coach at Bryant and Stratton College. She has been a member of the Creative Education Foundation for more than 30 years, received its Leadership, Service and Commitment Award in 2000 and is an Extending/PACE leader for the Creative Problem Solving Institute.
 716-877-5716 mbattaglia59@gmail.com         80 Chatham Ave. Buffalo, NY 14216     

How to do Six Cool Things

Bruce is a legend in his own mind, is a Professor in the Exceptional Education Department at Buffalo State College and the ‘Head Honcho’ of HumorCreativity.Com. Bruce is author of How to Motivate Audiences: 121 Warmups, Icebreakers and Activities for Promoting Creative Problem Solving, Teamwork and Laughter and 20 Magic Tricks for the Magically Impaired (DVD). He is a Colleague in the Creative Education Foundation, a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, an Associate with the Center for Development of Human Services, a certified Laughter Leader and a member of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Bruce has conducted numerous programs on humor, creativity, team building, educating individuals with disabilities, coping with difficult people, communication, self-esteem, and managing stress. In his spare time, Dr. Baum is a Rocket Scientist, Bronco Rider, Taxidermist, Explorer, Brain Surgeon and Gourmet. (716) 878-4639 885-2045 (home) 880-6299 (cell) baumrb@buffalostate.edu  www.humorcreativity.com

Cognitive Science

Wayne is a full-time creativity consultant and innovation facilitator for P&G. Wayne has created a series of popular innovation workshops focused on new product development, training thousands of managers across P&G’s diverse business units and regions. These workshops and related tools provide a common language and framework for innovation, fostering collaboration across P&G’s diverse business units and regions. In his current role, Wayne is a full-time creativity consultant and innovation workshop facilitator at The GYM, P&G’s Corporate R&D design studio in West Chester. 513 708-2492 fisher.wr@pg.com

How do we know it's Creative?

Joanne is an educational psychologist working in higher education. She completed a Masters degree in Creative Studies and has worked internationally as a trainer and educator in a variety of business and educational settings. Joanne has developed small talents in piano, voice, painting, and dance. She is interested in play, dance, music, art, drama, and meditation as they are expressions of soul creativity. curranjm@oneonta.edu  ((607) 431-9961

Andre is Co-Director of the Creativity Institute. He is an engineer, inventor, author, and seminar leader. He has facilitated "Creative-Innovation" projects at AT&T, Bell Labs, Ogilvy and Mathers, United Technologies, Federal Reserve and the DOD. He is the author of The Creative Genius Book, Zingers, TRIZ - 40 Principles of Inventing, Instant Selling and has co-authored the creativity chapter in The Advertising Managers Handbook (1997) and The Tao of Living on Purpose (1998). Andre is creator of INVENTIUM ® Card Game and the inventor of the "Flasher" (an anti-theft auto device), and the co-creator of the "Creativity Machine", a creativity computer software program.  (212) 289-8856  creativityinstitute@juno.com   www.nextideacreativityconference.com

Evolutionary Creativity

Judith is the Director of the Passionate Path Institute, a subdivision of the Creativity Institute. She is very involved in the arts and the use of creative self expression for self discovery, personal growth, fun, well being and beauty. Judith explores the many links between the arts, mystic spirituality and quantum physics. She uses her background as a psychotherapist and sculptor to help herself and others find their “Tao” or “Way” through creative self expression and harvesting subconscious wisdom. She is the Co-author of The Tao of Living on Purpose and the author of Creativity Therapy, Connectium and Getting Stone: The Tao of Sculpting. Judy and Andre are engaged in a “creative living project” which some have labeled as “Extreme Living”. (212) 289-8856 creativityinstitute@juno.com  www.nextideacreativityconference.com  www.flickr.com/photos/taosculpting

Eileen is president of Doyle Consulting; a qualitative market research firm that conducts focus groups and taste tests. Moderating specialties include online focus groups, consumer products, kids, travel, pharmaceuticals and insurance. Her facilitation style includes creative problem solving, projective techniques, team building and laughter! Eileen is co-founder of the New England Creativity Group and co-chair of the New England Chapter of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association. Her favorite credential is Certified Laughter Leader. 781-652-0452 eileendoyle@gmail.com

Integrative Leadership Practices of "Theory U"

Allie facilitates body-mind techniques to help individuals and groups learn and practice deeply harmonizing ways of living and being on the planet, while also adapting to new cognitive demands required for optimal performance and satisfaction.

A passionate yoga educator and executive coach, Allie enhances traditional cognitive approaches to change offering new models of body-mind practices, aligning and attuning to new forms of energy and resulting in a new sense of well-being and thriving.

Allie lived and worked in her home town, New York City, in the 1970s and 1980s, enjoying a major stint providing legal services during corporate mergers and acquisitions heyday on Wall Street followed by working as a team leader in earned income and creative retailing and licensing start-up projects for major museums & libraries in NYC. She was on the speakers’ circuit to tell her story about bringing innovation to development and fundraising efforts. Launching her free-lance consultancy during those years, she served major corporations and not-for-profits as an innovative team development consultant, employing adventure based experiential training in the classroom and leading wilderness programs to help individuals and teams manage and flourish during the quick change environment following many mergers. She mounted a few art exhibitions and moonlighted as an international theatre dramaturge along the way.

After human development graduate work in the 1990s Allie taught clinical and systems change management courses at the State University of New York graduate school in Albany. Following additional training at Harvard University and conflict resolution work in France and Germany, she designed and delivered intercultural mediation training programs. Allie was deployed to NYC as a member of the New York State mental health crisis response team following the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster.

Currently, in addition to her private leadership coaching and organization development consulting practice, Allie teaches yoga locally and internationally, offers body-mind integration workshops, integrating practices and activities from NLP, energy medicine, Theory U and eco-psychology. Allie loves to hike, bike and kayak in the wilderness. With her husband Newell, she looks forward to more journeys to sacred sites, near and far. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alliemiddleton 518.669.9923 skype:alliemiddelton

 

Rockets, Reactions, and Rainbows, OH MY!

Sue calls herself a "retreaded" teacher now that she's moved on from her 16 years of teaching gifted elementary and high school students. Having originated a wide range of creative projects and approaches to challenge her students, Sue has turned her attention to the need to develop creative thinkers inside and outside business.

Along with her eclecthink partner, she developed and teaches a 39-hour credit class for third year students in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan entitled "Creative Thinking & Entrepreneurship" and often brings the off-the-wall perspective for Creativity Boot Camps, facilitations and workshops.
Sue has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in Science, Technology and Mathematics.

Sue is a consulting partner with thinkx intellectual capital of Toronto Ontario, and is a facilitator of both Creative Problem Solving V6.1, Center for Creative Learning, Inc. and Productive Thinking, thinkx intellectual capital. She is also a licensed user of the VIEW-An Inventory of Problem Solving Style and a practitioner for the Situational Outlook Questionnaire (SOQ). a retired bagpiper, dragonfly collector, shameless opportunist, aspiring half-marathoner and avowed science nerd, Sue loves to spend time entertaining friends and family with gourmet meals and consumes a great deal of time looking at the birds and insects that populate her English country garden.william.brooks@eclecthink.com  www.eclecthink.com C:306-229-6129

Buddha Like Mind

Sheri is an artist and educator who believes everyone is an artist in some medium, be it paint, music, food, gardening, child-rearing, or creating beautiful pivot tables. She founded Art-Think, an arts and education organization, to provide opportunities for individuals and groups to express and to think about creativity. Through Art-Think, Sheri has facilitated creativity workshops and taught painting classes for people of all ages in New England and Washington State, including oil, acrylic and watercolor courses at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and The Cancer Center at Lowell General Hospital. Sheri's "day job" is creating clinical and commercial labeling at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, MA. skennedy@art-think.com 

Core Connections

Mary Ann is a Professor of Education at Georgian Court University, New Jersey, USA where she is fortunate to work with motivated and dedicated students! As part of a teaching-learning community that espouses and implements core values of justice, respect, integrity, compassion, and service, she feels fortunate to share her life’s work with her colleagues and students.

Dr. Smorra also serves as a presenter and performer for organizations located statewide, nationally and internationally. As a vocalist and actress (you may have seen her commercials on ABC, NBC and CBS), she is pleased to be able to use these skills in the classroom and with a diversity of school districts and organizations. Countries in which she has consulted, presented and performed include Denmark, Great Britain, Turkey, Italy, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa.

She also has been spotlighted in a number of videos/ DVDs that are both performance and academically oriented. Although her doctorate is from Rutgers with and emphasis on cognitive psychology, thanks to the beauty of the creative problem solving process, she has also attend Peabody Conservatory of Music and Parsons School of Design,

Inspired by the Creative Problem Solving Institute for many years, Mary Ann received the Colleague Award and the Leadership, Service, & Commitment Award. Additionally, she was part of the CEF YouthWise team working with students from the Xhosa community in South Africa. She has also worked with the Zulu and SeSotho communities as well.

Most recent publications include: Intelligence Connections, ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) Multiple Intelligences Network. “Walk the Talk with Teacher Candidates: Using MI in the Higher Ed. Classroom.” August 2010; Women’s Voices for Change, (physician sponsored on line publication), “From Fairy Godmother to Peck’s Bad Girl”, August 2010; Intelligence Connections, ASCD, Multiple Intelligences Network; “Magic Mirrors: Using the Intrapersonal Intelligence to Develop Reflective Teaching Practice", December 2009; “The Emotions, the Brain, and Learning in the Classroom”, ASCD Express, (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008); “Creative Communication: Connecting with Style”, Revista reCREARTE, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2008).

Mary Ann embraces the roles of teacher-learner, traveler and creative artist!
 smorram@georgian.edu 

Sw. Laraaji Nadananda, initiated into sunyas in 1985 with a special ceremony By Shri Brahmananda Saraswati in the USA. He is a devotee of Nada Yoga, union with the Everpresent source through the liberating power of Nadam, cosmic sound current. He is extensively experienced in matters of Hilarity and light heartedness. Has been a stand up night club comedian and writer, film actor, Jazz Musician, composer and now performs and records exquisite soundtracks of original new music for wellness, inspiration, relaxation, meditative atmosphere and celebration featuring the unique sound of Electric open tuned zither/harps, African thumb pianos (Kalimba), free style vocal, keyboards and Portable percussion. He has developed his own style of Laughter workshops which emphasizes the therapeutic use of your laughter for interior stimulation and self love. His love for dance and creative movement aligned with yogic vision is shared along with a mastery of impromptu musical expression. You can experience him on the Web by searching "Laraaji" at www.Google.com and www.YouTube.com (to hear his music) or contact at him at 212-281-0053 laraaji@yahoo.com

Russ Schoen helps individuals, teams and organizations adopt a mindset, toolset and skill-set to unleash creative behavior. He has delivered creativity, innovation and leadership programs worldwide including programs in Singapore, Italy, Australia, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the US. A sampling of organizations he works with include: Discover, International Fragrance & Flavors, SC Johnson and Leo Burnett. Russ is an Adjunct Professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity where he teaches graduate courses in facilitating creative process. He is a contributing author to a number of innovation-related materials including the Foursight and Ingenious Thinking suite of materials. In addition, Russ is cofounder of the Creative Youth Leadership academy which teaches creative problem solving skills to teens. When he is not working, he can be found in Chicago practicing aikido, improvising and learning Italian. Russ has a M.S. in Creativity, innovation & Change Leadership. www.RussSchoen.com 773.858.8066  russ@russschoen.com

Creativity: Achievements and Illusions that Trap us

Dr. Dan S. Bagley III - enjoys life as an educator and entrepreneur. He is president of Bagley and Associates, a company dedicated to improving the performance of sales, marketing and managerial people through personal business coaching, consulting and seminars. His coaching clients spread from Florida to Washington State.

Dan is a former founding partner of Sterling Research group, an international market research company and is a former founding officer and director of Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology, the company that found and excavated the first intact Spanish colonial galleon in deep water. Dan retired from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 2010 as associate professor emeritus.

Dan has also published over 100 articles on communication, sales, business and creative behavior. His academic background includes a B.S. in Advertising from Florida State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii (earned in night school while serving as an Army Medical Service Corps officer in Japan), and a Ph.D. in Communications from The University of Tennessee. He is a certified Master Level NLP Practitioner and is a colleague and lifetime member of the Creative Education Foundation 813-962-2748 bagley@breakthroughs.com

Innovation Theatre

William loves to laugh, dance, meditate, walk in the woods, build environmental sculptures, compose mythic tales and write books on creativity and soul-searching. He is the custodian of his 14-acre 'Open Heart Sanctuary' in East, Aurora, NY. wfsturner@mac.com www.KindredSpirits.Us
 

Improv-Writing

Amy is an experienced facilitator, writer and communications professional, who has presented numerous creativity and communication workshops at conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa. She has worked as a communications consultant with clients in health care, business, education, and the arts, and presently lives in western Massachusetts where she directs the public relations activities for a community hospital. Amy earned her B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and her Master’s in Education from Antioch/New England Graduate School. 413-773- 3033 riverrun56@gmail.com

Dr. Bill Brooks or Dr. Space, as he is known to a generation of elementary school kids, has worked in supervisory, management and executive positions in a wide variety of industries ranging from Aerospace, Mining, and Scientific Instrumentation Development to a non-profit Science Centre.

Living up to his reputation as being a "rocket scientist" he injects science demonstrations and hands-on activities (explosions, crashes and all things physics) to stimulate creative thinking. He has also been awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's prestigious Michael Smith Award for Science and Technology Promotion.
Bill is a consulting partner with thinkx intellectual capital of Toronto Ontario, and is a facilitator of both Creative Problem Solving V6.1, Center for Creative Learning, Inc. and Productive Thinking, thinkx intellectual capital. He is also a trained personal coach bringing coaching to creative implementation strategies for business.
He is a runner, information junkie, puzzle addict and an almost astronaut, and spends a considerable amount of any free time repairing his old house and rustic cabin.  E: william.brooks@eclecthink.com W: www.eclecthink.com C:306-229-6129

ALTER - A Way Back to the Future

Tim is founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital and has delivered productive thinking programs throughout the world. He has keynoted in 29 countries on six continents about how to use the principles of productive thinking and creative leadership to manage change rather than be swamped by it.

Tim is a founding director of Mindcamp and Facilitators Without Borders, a Governing Counsellor of the YMCA of Metro Toronto, and serves on several other non-profit boards.

Since its release in October 2007, Tim’s book Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking has consistently been one of McGraw Hill’s top ten business books, and is now in its third printing. It is used in business and professional schools in the US, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Brazil, and has been translated into six languages. See Tim’s TEDx talk, The Shock of the Possible, given in Maastricht, Netherlands in April 2011. See it
http://bit.ly/k7uMQ3

Tim thinks the phrase “out of the box thinking” should be put back in the box and buried in a deep hole. 416.540.5863
www.thinkxic.com

Honoring Our Contemplative Inner Space & Outer Creativity

Arji is an energy worker (Usui Reiki Master), sound healer and dream teacher with a private practice based in Niskayuna (near Albany) New York. She is an avid proponent of Re-Hellenization based on the ancient Asclepian model. Arji has studied extensively with internationally-known dream explorer Robert Moss, and sound healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman, and holds degrees both in psychology and counseling. Her work, both solo and in collaboration with other healers, reflects a deep commitment to assisting others in achieving radiant health, self-knowledge, and personal empowerment through various energetic and visionary arts and skills.
Over the past few years, she has collaborated in a wide variety of venues throughout the U.S. with Sw. Laraaji NadaBrahmananda (http://laraaji.blogspot.com), and continues to expand her knowledge of the role of both energy and sound in the realm of healing. Arji also serves as faculty for Jonathan Goldman's prestigious annual International Sound Healers Intensive (www.healingsounds.com) in Loveland, Colorado, as well as Vickie Dodd's highly-acclaimed Sacred Sounds Intensive(www.sacredsoundschool.com) held at Olympic National Park, Washington State. She is an avid dancer and lists music, meditation and spontaneous Flowspace as amongst her greatest teachers. She can be reached at "Energy & Sound"
(518) 374-2258 or email: platonia@aol.com.