Intercultural Creativity is all about understanding how cultural competence intersects with creative thinking. Creative thinking is highly affected by the level of psychological safety within the environment. My podcast with the author of the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety, Dr. Tim Clark, shares more on why this is so. Developed...
Are schools killing creativity? That was the provocative headline of my first ever TED talk I watched in 2007 by Sir Ken Robinson. This most-viewed TED Talk, topping with sixty-sixty million views, would lead to the foundational work that I embark on today. Unfortunately, the beloved Sir Ken Robinson passed...
Yesterday my husband Shayne and my 26-month-old son, Shawn became engineers and used Lakeshore Fort Builder poles to build structures. As they were building, Shawn kept identifying the shapes he was using, mostly on his own but sometimes prompted by his father. It was cute ... then it struck me. He’s...
She gave me life. Therefore the least I could do was give her the stars. This was the thought that ran through my mind as I watched my mother lounging back under a blanket of twinkling lights at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Following her gaze I stared above the cliffs....
The robots are coming. Wait! They are already here! 5G and quantum computing is already here. We keep warning people that the sky is falling and we need to be more creative in order to prepare for the tech advancements on the horizon. We need to retool our workforce...
I was bumping through life, not really aware of the importance of financial and creative literacy. Then when my husband quit his job to start his business, and we found ourselves under $100,000 worth of debt, I was startled into asking questions. "Why am I educated with a UCLA degree...
Recently, I have had several people ask me to write a dynamic curriculum that deals with financial literacy but also addresses creative abuse recovery. This opened my eyes that many adults are in need of recovering from being creatively abused as children. They were told to follow directions and color...
Last month my father died. It makes me ponder how my life is steadily turning into a curriculum. It seems that everything I go through turns into a lesson for my students, clients and for myself. So here goes my latest lesson... My father was a smart man. He, like my...
There’s Your Difference “…Genein, you were taught to be an employee and a consumer. I was taught, from kindergarten, to be an entrepreneur and an investor. There’s your difference..." Once I heard this statement, I was stunned in disbelief because he was absolutely right. He went to a school—a very expensive private...
My baby, Shawn just turned one. He babbles. He screams. He laughs uncontrollably for no apparent reason (I swear he sees angels playing on the walls!). His life coach (aka his nanny) says that he’s discovering his voice. He is coming to the realization that his vocal cords can...
