\u201cThe answers are not \u2018out there\u2019. They\u2019re already inside of your organization. I will work with you to create a vibrant culture of creativity and learning.\u201d
\n– Peter Gamwell<\/p>\n
Presentations and Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n Peter delivers dynamic and relevant keynote presentations on a variety of topics pertaining to leadership, creativity and learning. Whether your organization is involved with education, business, government or not-for-profit, he can work with you to customize a half-day or full-day workshop tailored to your specific needs and organizational goals.<\/p>\n Audiences are delighted and energized by Peter\u2019s unique style. He does not pretend to have all the answers. Instead, he embraces the uncertainty we all feel regarding the complexities of our times, and helps lead us to make sense of our world in positive and yet realistic ways. He draws on the depth of his research and the range of his experiences to engage audiences into informed dialogue about possible pathways forward\u2014and he uses storytelling and humor to wisely illustrate his messages.<\/p>\n Drawing on his research and his wealth of practical experience, Peter will challenge you to consider fundamental questions to foster positive growth, vibrancy and creativity in your organizations: By working together to find the answers to these questions and others like them, your organization will find the passion for lifelong and creative learning. With so many experts saying that imagination and innovation are crucial to our future, you might think about emulating creative companies like Zappos, Google, and IDEO. But do you notice what those organizations all have in common? They established their creative cultures as young start-ups, that\u2019s what. What happens if, like most of us, your organization has been around for decades, steeped in traditional processes and rigid roles that put a choke-hold on creativity and beat it senseless every day?<\/p>\n In this lively and engaging presentation built around questions, ideas and stories, you\u2019ll learn easily implemented and practical ways to catalyze and spark dialogue, learning and productive actions specific to your situation. In our complex, bureaucratic age, find out how you can transform your organization to embrace the new creative age.<\/p>\n – How do you set the stage to foster imaginative, creative and innovative organizational cultures? What barriers can you expect to encounter? What strategies can you use to move forward successfully? Peter challenges some common assumptions pertaining to leadership and learning, and provides suggestions and practical ideas to foster truly innovative and vibrant organizational cultures. Presentation 2<\/strong><\/p>\n Preparing our Children for an Unknown Future \u2013 Future Learning<\/em>Curiosity<\/p>\n The yearning to explore and learn new things\u2014is an integral part of our human DNA. Yet at a time when learning and educational opportunities have never been more abundant, the idea of children disliking school is so common it\u2019s become downright iconic in our society. Likewise, after graduation, our TGIF mentality extends to the workforce.<\/p>\n Why? Better You; Better Me; Better We; Making Creativity Happen.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Waterloo District School Board.<\/p>\n Bridging Creative Change.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Keynote.\u00a0\u00a0Creative Oklahoma, Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n Making Creativity Happen.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Presentation to the International Principals\u2019 Association, Cairns, Australia.<\/p>\n Making the Extraordinary Happen: Leading Creative Change.<\/i>\u00a0Presentation to the Canadian Association of School Administrators Annual Conference, Whistler, BC.<\/p>\n Distinguished Leadership Panel \u2013 conversation with Simon Breakspear.<\/i>\u00a0Canadian Association of School Administrators.<\/p>\n Optimal Learning in our Schools and Classrooms: The Holy Grail of Learning<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Aesthetics Conference, University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n Fostering a Culture of Engagement: Sparking the Conditions for Organizational<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Creativity.\u00a0\u00a0Keynote speech to the Engineering and Infrastructure Department, City of Ottawa, Ottawa.<\/p>\n A World of Inbetweenity \u2013 A Time Between Times<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Ignite Speech, Creative Alberta, Edmonton.<\/p>\n Leading Creative Organizations in Times of\u00a0\u00a0Complexity<\/i>. Keynote Speech, Creative Alberta, Edmonton.<\/p>\n Ingenuity \u2013 Engineering the Future: Sparking the Conditions for Creative Learning.<\/i>\u00a0Keynote Speech, Ontario Public Supervisory Officials Association, Toronto.<\/p>\n Making the Extraordinary Happen:\u00a0\u00a0Leading Creative Organizations<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Keynote Speech to the Parks and Recreation Division, City of Ottawa.<\/p>\n Fostering Creative Organizations.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Presentation to the National Creativity Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n Leading Organizational Change:\u00a0\u00a0Creativity and School District Reform<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Presentation to the Edmonton Public School Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe answers are not \u2018out there\u2019. They\u2019re already inside of your organization. I will work with you to create a vibrant culture of creativity and learning.\u201d – Peter Gamwell Presentations and Workshops Peter delivers dynamic and relevant keynote presentations on …<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 What do healthy organizations look like? What have you already done that has started to create this atmosphere?
\n\u2022 What does a creative person look and act like? Why do we consider some people creative and not others?
\n\u2022 What are the conditions needed to draw out people’s unique creative capacities?
\n\u2022 What practical and implementable strategies can we put in place today, next week and in the coming year to foster healthier organizational environments?<\/p>\n
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\nFostering Creative Organizations:
\nMaking the Extraordinary Happen in an Age of \u201cInbetweenity\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n– What are the conditions for optimal learning and creativity to flourish? Peter will show you how to think through this crucial question\u2014and suggests ways to move forward when the inevitable pushback occurs to organizational change.
\n– Learn about organizations that have successfully fostered creative learning cultures and find out we can learn from them.<\/p>\n
\nDrawing on extensive research, experiences, and intriguing stories, Peter Gamwell discusses how we need to update and energize our ingrained beliefs of human intelligence, human motivation, and human learning. During this thought-provoking presentation, you\u2019ll learn how our schools\u2014as well as other organisations\u2014are structured on outmoded theories and practices that not only literally set students up to fail, but rob them and our society of their true talents.
\nPeter discusses how we can structure new systems informed and built on emerging and fresh understandings of human intelligence, motivation and learning. In schools, businesses, governments and organizations, it is critical that we recognize, value and tap into the capacities of everyone, rather than valuing certain forms of intelligence over others. This presentation:
\n– Exposes and challenges underlying assumptions that maintain a status quo delivery of education
\n– Offers alternative approaches based on emerging and fresh understandings of human intelligence, motivation and learning
\n– Describes how exciting new discoveries in neuroscience and learning theory can help guide us to reshape learning environments in exciting and dynamic ways
\n– Explores the connection between the experience of optimal learning, creativity, and well being
\nThis presentation is also easily adapted to learning and optimizing employees\u2019 capacities in the workplace.<\/p>\nMore<\/h3>\n