John Cimino - President Creative Leaps and Creative Skills Training Council Foundation Member on the Life of Creativity and Leadership

John Cimino is president of Creative Leaps International (1992), The Learning Arts (1982) and founding president and CEO of the parent company, Associated Solo Artists, Inc. (1972). Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (biology & physics), the State University of New York at Albany (learning theory), and the Manhattan and Juilliard Schools of Music (music & voice), Cimino holds a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective and works across a host of disciplines dedicated to learning and human development. He is the winner of more than 20 national and international awards and prizes as an operatic and concert performer and has performed to acclaim throughout Europe and the continental United States in productions including LA BOHEME (Academy of Music, Philadelphia, opposite tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and LUISA MILLER (International Verdi Festival of Busetto, Italy, opposite tenor Carlo Bergonzi).

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Digital Darwinism

Audiences today relish the on-demand lifestyle afforded by digital technology, which makes those audiences more fragmented, distracted, and mercurial than ever. Many of MTV’s young viewers are online while they are watching TV, and they are prone to skip through ads with the aid of their digital video recorders (DVRs). We know this, and our advertisers know it too, which is why MTV Networks (MTVN) has made branded entertainment and brand integration a major part of the company’s business model.

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Trash to Treasure - Ron Krueger - NSW Business Chamber

If ever the saying ’where there’ s muck there’s brass’ befits an organisation, it applies to Reverse Garbage - a 35 year old business that takes waste and creatively turns it back into useful everyday items. There’s no end to the organisation’s ingenuity and inventiveness - bicycle tyres fashioned into belts, computer parts turned into funky jewellery and lampshades, recycled plastic moulded into stylish handbags that would not look out of place in a designer store and kiddies’ juice poppers made into neat little purses. These are just a few of hundreds of designs that allow artists to embellish their creativity on a contract basis with the organisation.

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Creative Skills Training Council - on Creating Peak Performance - Flow in Music and Sport

Recently the Creative Skills Training Council conducted a program in Melbourne on Creating Peak Performance - Flow in Music and Sport. Georges McKail provided an excellent graphical report of the event - as shown in the pdf at this link: Graphical Report by Georges McKail on CSTC Melbourne Meeting

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