Austin Hill Shaw
Austin Hill Shaw helps individuals and organizations rediscover their innate creativity so that they can lead more connected, effective, deeply meaningful lives, lives that inspire creativity in others. Through his keynotes and trainings, workshops, retreats, and one-on-one coaching, his life purpose is to empower others as creators. He is the author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative, and inventor of The Creativity Quiz and the The Creator's Cheat Sheet. He resides in Berkeley, California with his wife, Epiphany, and their daughters, Sierra Lucia and Lorenza Delmar.
Austin Hill Shaw helps individuals and organizations rediscover their innate creativity so that they can lead more connected, effective, deeply meaningful lives, lives that inspire creativity in others. Through his keynotes and trainings, workshops, retreats, and one-on-one coaching, his life purpose is to empower others as creators. He is the author of The Shoreline of Wonder: On Being Creative, and inventor of The Creativity Quiz and the The Creator's Cheat Sheet. He resides in Berkeley, California with his wife, Epiphany, and their daughters, Sierra Lucia and Lorenza Delmar.
How to Build Cultures of Innovation
"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation." -Robert Iger
Creativity and innovation, though talked about extensively as essential aspects of any successful organization, are rarely understood, at least not in any way that is really useful. From afar, both creativity and innovation seem shrouded in mystery, and result from the inalterable traits of certain gifted individuals and not others. And while we all sense that the qualities of creativity and...
Creativity: The Number One Trait of Successful Leaders
"A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 'leadership competency' of the future. Yet it's not just about sustaining our nation's economic growth. All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions..." --from the Newsweek article, "The Creativity Crisis" by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
What gives rise to those precious moments of creative insight? What helps us convert such...
The Secrets Behind Bay Area Creativity and Innovation
The San Francisco Bay Area is arguably the single most creative and innovative region in the entire world, a region that has produced game-changing innovations in almost all areas of human activity, including science and technology, product development, political and social movements, personal growth and transformation, food and food politics, relationships and sexuality, spiritual and religious practices, sustainability, art, architecture, and music.
The question is why? What are...
