[ international trainers and business consultants ]

Ollie MacDonald - Red Zebra

Ollie is one of the three partners of the innovative company RedZebra, with offices in the UK, South Africa and the US. RedZebra aim to encourage a world community of understanding through transforming the way people innovate, using the creative powers of percussion music and movement. They have eight years of working in many communities and corporates around the world. Clients include American Express, Guinness, Xerox, Searle Pharmaceuticals and Quest International. Community projects undertaken include Buffalo (USA), Brighton (UK) and Johannesburg (SA). Wherever RedZebra works, they bring alive human potential.

Tim Hurson

Throughout his career, Tim has helped Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 organizations in the US, Canada, and the UK create innovation, marketing, new product, and workplace transformation programs. In the process, he's seen how barriers to creative and productive thinking are also barriers to success - for individuals and for groups.
He speaks regularly about how to use the principles of productive thinking and creative leadership to manage change rather than be swamped by it. He shows how organizations can foster a creative working environment, stable enough to provide cultural continuity and flexible enough to adjust to rapid changes in technologies, markets, and mandates.

Gregg Fraley

Gregg Fraley is an innovation consultant, writer, and speaker. He facilitates ideation sessions and consults on product development with the Fortune 100. He's worked with J&J, Verizoln, Frito-Lay, and Nestle-Purina.

His business fable "Jack's Notebook" puts the CPS (Creative Problem Solving) process into an easy-to-read novel in an effort to reach a wider audience for deliberate creativity concepts (Jack's Notebook is slated published by Nelson Publishing 2007).

Gregg does keynotes and workshops on creative thinking, innovation, problem solving, and new product development.

Doug Stevenson

Doug has a BA cum laude in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame, an MM (MBA) in Marketing & Nonprofit Management from the J.L. Kellogg School at Northwestern and a MSc from the International Center for Studies in Creativity (Buffalo State College) in Buffalo, New York where Alex Osborn (partner- BBDO Advertising) developed "Brainstorming" and the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving methodology with Sidney Parnes.

He draws on his native creativity, his formal training in the Osborne-Parnes CPS model, his humour, improvisation skills, marketing experience, writing and quick drawing ability to enhance the process of producing an abundance of novel and actionable new ideas wherever there is a need.

Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP

Alan (Robert Alan Black, Ph.D.) is an International Creative Thinking Consultant and his consulting company is Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities. When not traveling the world, Alan calls Athens, Georgia home. As a consultant, coach, speaker and author, he helps people expand and enrich their natural creative abilities.

Alan uses his 47 years of daily creative work experience at 47 different jobs in eight fields, along with his formal education: Ph.D. in creativity with E. Paul. Torrance, Ph.D., BS and 2 MA's in design and architecture, plus M.Ed. in counseling and educational psychology combined with 30 years of training workshops (3100 workshops to date) to provide: examples, skills, tools and techniques to everyone in his groups and audiences. He sees life, as a creative journey, not a guided tour.

Anthony Hyatt

Anthony is a violinist and performance artist from Washington DC whose interest is in the role and use of improvisation techniques in the creative process. He is co-director of the Quicksilver Senior Citizen Dance Company and a presenter at many international conferences on creativity. His organization is Moving Beauty.

David Magellan Horth

David Magellan Horth is co-author of The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges and Visual Explorer™ (featured in The Change Handbook 2nd Edition published December 2006.) He is Senior Faculty at The Center for Creative Leadership®, in Greensboro, NC, USA, where he researches, designs and delivers creative leadership experiences. He is President of The Creative Education Foundation and Visiting Fellow at Greenwich University's Centre for Entrepreneurship. David is an engineer by background who stumbled into the world of creative practice following his successful navigation of novel technologies into the market. One of these won his former company, ICL, The Queens Award for Technological Innovation in 1985. David is noted for connecting the arts with organizational leadership. He uses his gifts as a poet and musician to help businesses develop their leadership effectiveness.

Dr Kobus Neethling

Kobus is the President of the South African Creativity Foundation and holds six degrees including two Masters, a Doctorate and Post-Doctorate (cum laude). He has written more than 80 books and 9 TV series including a number of international best-sellers and is a Guinness World Record Holder for (Co-author): "Making the Impossible possible".

He has received 10 International Who's Who Awards including One of 2000 outstanding Scholars of the 20th century (1999: Cambridge England)) and received the first International Creative Genius Award (2004) from the International Genius Acadamy (USA). He developed the largest battery of Whole Brain Instruments in the world (used in 25 countries) International Silver Screen Award (for a TV episode called Creativity --2005) and is a Creativity presenter and trainer in 25 countries with clients such as: Chevron, Shell, CitiBank, Anglo Platinum, DeBeers, Nestle, Ogilvy and Mather, Nissan and hundreds other national and international companies.

He is a Co-developer of the Hit TV show "Out of the Box". He has received the International PLATO Award (Cambridge, England -July 2006) for his breakthrough contributions to the Science and Teaching of Creativity.

Dimis Michaelides

Consultant, business speaker, facilitator, magician, musician. Dimis is MD of Performa Consulting with creativity and innovation at the heart of his work. Dimis has extensive international experience (Europe, Americas, Africa) in Marketing, Finance and General Management in senior positions at the World Bank, Zeneca and Cyprialife and substantial expertise in mergers and change management.

Michelle James

Michelle James is an organisational development and creativity consultant, facilitator and coach who has delivered hundreds of workshops and programs over the past eight years on learning, creativity, innovation, change and team building.

She is has spent several years as a student and performer of improvisation. Michelle is also a CoreSomatics ® Practitioner and she integrates these methodologies with her knowledge and 15 years of experience with accelerated learning, whole brain techniques, hundreds of creative problem solving methods, models and processes to create transformational workshops and programmes.

She presents at learning and creativity conferences and for special interest groups, business organisations and non-profits in the U.S. Clients include Kaiser Permanente, Inova Health System, EDS, Alexus , Cable & Wireless, Canon USA, Telos Corporation, ADP Advanced Medical Solutions, Neo Graphic Communications, Corporate Finance Institute, and 3G-International Inc.