Creativity Seminar: Jul 16, 2008

"The true mystery of the world is the visible,

not the invisible."

Oscar Wilde

About

The Creativity Seminar teaches individuals, teams and companies new ways to develop ideas and solve problems.

It offers techniques and tools that make the creative process easier and more productive. Creativity is a skill — which can be developed, practiced and improved.

Through these interactive presentations, Sean Kelly examines famous ideas and inventions by others, and shares examples from 40 years of his own creative work to show how to generate breakthrough solutions to challenging assignments.

Corporations, media companies, universities and arts organizations have benefited from these inspiring lectures and workshops that stimulate the imagination and spark innovation.

CLIENTS

CORPORATE CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Aetna

American Express

AT&T

Cisco

Georgia-Pacific

Humana

IBM

Macy's

McGraw-Hill

NBC Universal

Nickelodeon

Nielsen Media Research

Omnicom Group

Razorfish

Scholastic Inc.

Time Warner

The Smithsonian Institution

Vera Wang

Viacom

NEWSPAPERS

The Boston Globe

The Chicago Tribune

The Christian Science
Monitor

The Hartford Courant

The Los Angeles Times

The Miami Herald

The New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

The Washington Post

MAGAZINES

The Atlantic

Billboard

Businessweek

Congressional Quarterly

Entertainment Weekly

Esquire

Forbes

Fortune

Harvard Business Review

Huffington Post

Kiplinger's

Newsweek

New York

Premiere

Rolling Stone

Saveur

Smithsonian

This Old House

U.S. News & World Report

Variety

The Washingtonian

Wired

Worth

Sean Kelly's Seminar Topics Include:

WHAT ARE VISUAL THINKING AND DESIGN THINKING?

BLOCKING THOSE

CREATIVE BLOCKS

ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES

USES OF IMPROV

THEATER EXERCISES

EDISON’S NAPS

THE NEUROBIOLOGY

OF CREATIVITY

WHAT BUSINESS

LEADERS CAN LEARN

FROM ARTISTS

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

AND OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS

DEDUCTIVE LOGIC

HOW THE BRAIN

PROCESSES VISUAL

INFORMATION

EDWARD DE BONO AND

LATERAL THINKING

DEADLINES, PRESSURE

AND CREATIVITY

DECIDING TO MAKE

A DECISION

DISRUPTIVE THINKING

THE BENEFITS OF FAILURE

GAME THEORY AND

PROBLEM SOLVING

HOW CREATIVITY AND

INNOVATION DIFFER

CONNOTATIONS AND

DENOTATIONS OF IMAGES

NATURE, NURTURE

OR NOT SURE?

INDIVIDUAL VS.

TEAM CREATIVITY

PLACES FOR INVENTING

SERIOUS USES

OF HUMOR

THAT “EUREKA” MOMENT

For more information on topics in Sean Kelly's Creativity Seminar: email.

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