The Global Creativity Initiative Podcast

The Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment is a free 10 minute self diagnostic tool for assessing your creativity in 11 identified and long researched categories of creativity. You want this! In becoming aware of strengths and areas to develop you are sure to become more creative every day. Dr Freddie Reisman is a leading scholar of creativity in education. The Freddie Reisman Center for Transla...

Dr Roger Firestien is focused on finding the problem. Why? Because, "for every complex problem there's an answer that's clear, simple and wrong."  Most of us solve for the wrong problem. And here's the gold: in about 5-6 minutes with the right (creativity) skills you can uncover what the real problem might be. If you have five  minutes and dislike do-overs then lean in. In...

"Innovation is at the intersection of knowledge and insights." Professor Chinnam in India  shares how STEM students for engineering require both knowledge and skills. Knowledge is learned. And how does one become skilled?  Insights come from a wanting to know though pragmatic trial and error.  Learn, Unlearn and Relearn is a formula for creativity. Another tip Chinnam puts forth is this:...

"Any time you're faced with a problem you haven't solved before, some degree of creativity is required." Everyday creativity has roots in Torrance's work and comes though in Bonnie's story telling insights from her direct experience with the late great Dr. Torrance, a founding scholar for what has evolved into the discipline of creativity.  An authentic commitment to...

"Everyone of us has a seed of creativity," says Dr. Freddie Riesman, begging the question, is your creativity dormant or is it growing, and if so, how are you growing it?  If you think you're not creative or wondering what creativity is then lean in. Reisman's RDCA, The Riesman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment is a free self assessment tool developed specifically for bringing s...

"We are the future of the past," says author Rob Swigart. If this is true, and knowing what we know, what are we doing now for tomorrow? Valid question and compelling points in this conversation around how nature us perhaps our best teacher.  There are no straight lines in nature. Creativity is not a linear set of processes. Before she disappears from her capital "N" status, if...

 Tune in for a broad stroke and lively overview with Dr Ruth Richards on why creativity is central to the quality of our being. Creativity is not some magical-out-there-skill reserved for genius types, though we did think that in earlier decades. Today we continue to infer artists are the creatives.  To be clear, we love you artists. And we notice that you have process. Indeed,  creativity is a sk...