Artists,
Designers, Speakers, Writers |
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Alliance of Artists Communities |
Collaborative project for increasing residencies by California visual artists from diverse communities. |
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A-1 Complete Writing and Editing |
No job is too big or too small, our rates are reasonable, and your due date requests are honored. |
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Letitia Splain Dayer |
Expressive arts painter |
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Gabrielle Fox |
Bookbinder, miniature books. |
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Lynda Lotman |
Manuscript editing, from copy editing to writing assistance. |
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Peter Lloyd |
Full-service writer and songwriter. |
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Pro Novel Editing |
Proofreading, light to heavy copy editing, developmental editing, novel
manuscript critiques, book doctoring |
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Success Literary Services |
Writers, editors, and teachers established in
1984 as a manuscript editing service and a film script coverage service for independent writers and publishing and production professionals. |
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Go Create Design |
Website design,
building, and marketing solutions. |
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Writer's Help Desk |
Self-publishing and writing resources. |
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Consultants |
Visit Heads Above the Rest for a list of the most highly recommended
creative consultants. |
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Mike Allison & Associates |
Problem-solving wizards with lots of interesting
resources. |
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Barbara Bowen |
Guides designers, journalists, ad creatives, artists, photographers, healing
arts and media professionals, architects, and others into new levels of
success. |
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Breakthrough Business Solutions |
Helps develop and implement new and unexpected ideas. |
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Winston J. Brill |
Unique services to inspire great ideas. |
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CEI-Logistics |
Helps warehousing, manufacturing, and distribution clients achieve
measurable business benefits. |
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Clear Insight |
Business integration specialists. |
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Creative Advantage |
Comprehensive approach to innovation--integrating consulting, training,
facilitation and assessment. |
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Creative Edge Associates |
Helps tap creativity and innovation in all types of and sizes of
orgainzations. |
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Creative Partners |
Consultancy with much useful information. See
the "Think About It" and "Curious" sections. |
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Creative Realities |
Assists innovation by advising how to think and what to think about. |
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Creative Think |
Home of author
Roger von Oech. |
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Creative Thinking Association of America |
Experts in cultivating corporate cultures for continuous creativity and
innovation. |
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Creativity Experts |
Global database of thousands of spokespersons and consultants. |
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Creativity Lab |
Training, idea generation, focus groups, individual coaching. |
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Creativity Web |
Resources for creativity and innovation. |
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Don the Idea Guy |
Ideas that mean business and more business. |
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Edward DeBono |
Author and leading authority in the world in the field of creative
thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. |
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Facilitation Plus |
Consulting company specializing in meeting management and problem solving. |
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Roger Firestien |
Helps businesses worldwide generate, develop, and use new ideas to create
extraordinary performance. |
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Gregg Fraley |
Speaker, facilitator, and new-product developer with experience in
photography, cartooning, stand-up comedy, film-making, and improvisation.
Author of
Jack's Notebook:
A business novel about creative problem solving.. |
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Stephen R. Grossman |
Creativity consultant helps
clients structure low-risk systems designed to quickly get new, innovative
ideas to the marketplace. |
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Herrmann International |
Helps people harness the power of their thinking for improved productivity,
creativity and fulfillment. |
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Idea Champions |
Consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team
building, leadership, and out of the box products. |
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imaginatik |
Turns innovation into action by harnessing the creative potential of
employees, customers and suppliers to develop new products, new revenue
streams, reduce costs and improve business processes. |
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Innovation Resource |
Home of Robert B. Tucker, author of
Driving Growth Through Innovation. |
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Intellectual
Capital Group |
Excels in applying soft skills to hard problems. |
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Innovations
International |
Leading-edge products and services for
personal and organizational transformation. |
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JB Innovation |
Help
solve challenges and build a more innovative culture by working at the
system, organization, group and individual level. |
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Learning Attitude |
Organization and leadership development company specializing in improving
personal and organizational performance. |
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Patrick Magee |
Author of
Brain Dancing. |
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Making Vision Reality |
Unlock the potential of people and their organizations. |
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Marco Marsan |
Leader of
Marco Polo Explorers, author of
Think Naked: Childlike brilliance in the rough adult world and The
Lion's Way. |
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Michael Michalko |
Internationally acclaimed
creative thinking expert and
author of
Cracking
Creativity. |
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Mindwerx |
Creativity consulting. |
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Dick
Orkin |
Head
honcho of
Radio Ranch, the legendary radio
production company and Radio Ranch Creative Workshops. |
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SEO Service Provider |
Consulting and services related to search engine optimization. |
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Synectics |
Home of the
problem-solving process. |
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Chic Thompson |
Author of
What a Great
Idea! |
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TW Associates |
Provides training and
development experiences that make complex subjects accessible and useful to
busy people. |
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Arthur B. VanGundy |
Creativity and innovation
consultant, developer of innovation aids. |
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Virtual Thinking Expedition Company |
Leads groups on mind
adventures through the unknown to return as teams with new perspectives
results. |
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Roger von Oech |
Author, consultant, home
at
Creative Think. |
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Win Wenger |
Helps people enjoy a
richer quality of life and experience by surmounting difficulties. |
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Copyright,
Patent, Trademark |
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Copyright
Clearance Center |
A not-for-profit organization
providing collective copyright licensing services. |
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Copyright Society of the U.S.A |
212-354-6401 |
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Creative Commons |
Devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to
build upon and share. |
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IPToolbar |
Links to Intellectual Property information |
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USPTO |
Patent and trademark information including free trademark search. 800-786-9199 |
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U.S.
Copyright Office |
Official copyright information. |
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National
Patent Association |
Patent
assistance. 800-672-2280 |
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Thomas |
Legislative information on the
Internet. |
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John B. Woodard, PhD |
Registered patent agent 513-289-8657 |
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Creativity,
Ideas,
Innovation |
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American Creativity Association |
Dedicated to promoting a creative society by increasing awareness of the
importance of creativity and encouraging personal and professional
creativity. |
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Broken Crayons |
Home
of by Robert Alan Black. |
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Conversations about Creativity |
Interviews with creative people on
Cecil Vortex. |
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Children and Creativity |
From
the
Creativity Web. |
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Creative Aerobics |
Ideation and mind-set
breaking techniques. |
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Creativity Basics |
From
the
Creativity Web. |
| Creativity Cafe
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Community, synergy, and resource center
to accelerate pro-active responses. |
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Creativity Mailing List |
Focused on creativity, creative thinking, and creative problem solving.
Started in February 1998. |
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Creativity Pool |
Database of creative and original ideas. |
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Creativity Web
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Resources for Creativity and Innovation |
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Creax.Net |
Links to site devoted to creativity and innovation. |
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eMetaphor |
Free web and ezine service that helps writers reach their writing goals,
using a holistic approach and self-mastery skills. |
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Enchanted Mind |
Exercises for developing creativity. |
| Global Ideas Bank |
Socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted. |
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Golding
Crafts |
New Zealand's specialist suppliers of Handcraft
Materials and books since 1969. |
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IdeaConnection |
Collaborative problem solving, creativity and idea exchange website. Buy,
sell or license inventions, innovations, new products, ideas, intellectual
property and patents. |
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Idea Mama |
A
bridge between an Idea and a Business Empire. |
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Idea Pirate |
The place for
entrepreneurs to find and share new ideas, innovations, and inventions. |
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Ideathon |
Social open innovation
with a twist. |
Innovation Tools
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Designed to help busy executives to be more innovative in their businesses. |
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Innovation Tool of the Month Club |
Subscription to a monthly delivery of new and proven innovation tools from
Gerald Haman of the
Solution People. |
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it is a good idea |
Personal idea generation help from Kristina Julin-Stringer. |
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Mattress Factory |
Research and development lab for
artists. |
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Minciu Sodas Laboratory |
Open
laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. |
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National Center for Creativity |
A
resource for innovative thinking and place for people interested in
creativity to come together. |
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Project Zero |
Aims
to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as
well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and
institutional levels. |
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Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development |
A
service, research, and instructional center concerned with the
identification and development of creative potential and with gifted and
future studies. |
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USENET newsgroups |
List
from the
Creativity Web. |
| WackyCreations
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Where out-of-the-box is not out of the ordinary. |
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Why Not? |
How
to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small. |
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Education |
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Alden B. Dow Creativity Center |
A global assembly of those who value, teach and practice creativity, base in
Northwood University. |
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BrainSkills |
Expert advice to train your brain. |
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Directory of Education |
Listing of degrees and the schools that provide them through online courses. |
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National Inventors Hall of
Fame |
Honors men and women responsible for great technological advances that make
human progress possible. |
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Edgerton
Educational Center |
Nebraska's hands-on science center. |
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Free Inquiry Group |
Non-profit organization of secular humanistsf dedicated to improving the
human condition through rational inquiry and creative thinking unfettered by
superstition, religion, or any form of dogma. |
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Hands-on
Museums worldwide |
Public museums with a strong emphasis on
interactive science education. |
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HyperTech |
Tech Museum of Innovation |
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Creativity for Kids |
Just what it sounds like. |
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IC2 Institute |
International research center and
"do tank" for the study and development of innovation, creativity, and capital. |
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Creativity
at Work |
Thinking and Perceiving Skills for the 21st Century. |
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Odyssey of the Mind |
Fosters creative thinking and problem-solving skills among participating
students from kindergarten through college. |
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Talent
Development Resources |
Exploring talent, giftedness, and inspiration to enhance creative expression. |
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Invention |
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Do-It-Yourself |
Household Hints and FAQs for Inventors |
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IFIA |
International
Federation of Inventors' Associations |
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Institute
of Inventors |
Voluntary, non-profit Inventors' Club, run by Professional Engineer Inventors, with help for all Private Inventors. |
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Invention Dimension |
Celebrates inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. |
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Inventnet |
Network of inventors. |
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Inventors
Assistance League |
Helps inventors and creative
people protect and market ideas and inventions. |
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National
Inventor Fraud Center |
Provide information to consumers about invention
promotion companies and how people can market their ideas. |
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United
Inventors Association |
Provides leadership, support, and services to inventor support groups and
independent inventors. |
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New Products,
Branding, Naming |
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All Star Minds |
Online idea-generation service of
Arthur
B. VanGundy. |
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Brain Wedgies |
Innovator at work--a behind-the-curtain look |
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BrandStorm |
Branding, new products, naming,
IdeaSpring online idea-generating process, and
inventureworks new-product incubator. |
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Express |
24-hour naming service. |
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Marco Polo Explorers |
Create new-product ideas for leading businesses in Big
Idea Sessions. |
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WordLab |
Forum of word
association for naming and branding. |
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Yakherder |
Naming company with
domains for sale. Specializing in media and entertainment, technology, and
communications. |
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Training |
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AcceleratedInnovation
Training |
Collaborative training
at the Gerald Haman's
Thinkubator in
Chicago. |
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Accelerated Training
Smorgasbord |
Creative techniques for spicing up your training. |
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Brainstorming |
Collection of techniques, software, and training. |
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Creative Animal Safari |
One-day seminar at a certified Creative Animals Zoo. |
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Center for Creative Learning |
Variety of publications, training programs, information support, and consulting
services on creativity, creative problem solving, talent development, and learning styles. |
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Creative Problem Solving Institute |
Programs and workshops in creative problem solving, creative thinking,
innovation, facilitation and personal performance. |
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Creativity Central |
Toy inventors Charlie and Maria Girsch facilitate ideation sessions and
interactive creativity seminars. |
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Creativity Engineering |
Adaptation of improv techniques to empower individuals, teams, and
businesses to dramatically increase their creative and collaborative
abilities within a context of positive humor. |
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Cultivate to Create |
Seminar designed to help people learn how to cultivate their own creativity. |
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Executive
Oasis International |
Executive retreats and executive coaching for rapidly changing
organizations. |
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Imagination Doctor |
Develops innovative thinking through creativity training. |
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Innova Training and Consulting |
Provides live and online training courses and keynotes focusing on
leadership, conflict management, creativity, communication, meeting
management, critical thinking, and team building. Based on tools and methods
of
Edward DeBono and Stan Slap. |
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Just Write It |
Creative writing class for teens ages 12-16 in a relaxed atmosphere with
fellow writers. Each class will begin with a short lesson in style, followed
by in-class writing time and read-aloud period where writers will provide
positive feedback for their peers. |
Radio Ranch |
Creative Workshops by
Dick
Orkin. |
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Training Oasis |
Specializing in creative approaches to training
design, customization and delivery. |
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Workshops via Email |
Training delivered via email. |
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Write Loudly |
Improve your writing with prompts, tips and exercises in a relaxed
atmosphere with fellow writers. |
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