Conversations That Create

The Creative Leadership Forum is partnering with the Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab, Canada to run an international Thought Leaders Forum Conversations That Create May 7- 9, 2009 at the Centre for Leadership, Chowder Bay, Sydney.

The Forum Preamble
The hard assets of all organizations tend to constitute the primary value of the organization but they are useless if not for the human asset and specifically the resourcefulness of that human asset to organize and utilize the hard assets. And one of the essential elements of this human resourcefulness is that of imagination and creativity. But these two elements remain dormant without the generative contexts to draw them out and generative contexts are established and maintained only by the right kinds of conversations. If the output of a musician is music, the output of a playwright a script, the output of a sculptor a piece of visual art, then the output of a leader is creative conversation because it is the leader’s job to organize and focus the energy of human resourcefulness. It is the job of the leader to create and maintain the conversational ‘spaces’ that trigger the imagination and apply that imagination to creative work. The majority of conversations that people have at work do not readily lend themselves to creative action ..what is the case in your organization?

This is a pilot project exploring the application of the Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab's unique arts based facilitation processes and methodologies in the context of an International Thought Leaders Forum. This is the first time the Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab has participated in a project of this nature outside of North America. It offers participants a unique learning and training experience!

The project is 2 1/2 days (the introduction commences 4.30pm the day preceding) and the project will be led by Colin Funk, Director, the Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab, Canada; Dr Brian Woodward, Director and Designer, The Banff Centre Leadership Learning Lab, Canada and Ralph Kerle, CEO, the Creative Leadership Forum. Australian industry Thought Leaders have also agreed to be involved. Click hereto read the full preamble, programme background and outcomes.The pilot programme is offering 30 places. 15 places for a combination of business and academic thought leaders and 15 places for facilitators and creative practitioners who may wish to present as well as participate.The cost to participate is $880 incl GST regardless of whether you are presenting or not. All meals are included in the cost. Accommodation is excluded. Click here for full details of the venue situated on Sydney Harbour. We are seeking a balance of participants, so if you are interested, please email Ralph Kerle on rk@thecreativeleadershipforum.com or call him direct on 0412 559 603.