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Creative teams and leaders
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Popular Topics
01/ Creativity & Resilience
Creativity isn’t a luxury. It’s a resilience strategy.
Creativity and resilience are often treated as separate skills, but they’re deeply intertwined. This talk explores how creative thinking helps individuals and teams adapt under pressure, process uncertainty, and recover from burnout. Audiences walk away with a clearer understanding of how resilience is built—not through grit alone, but through curiosity, flexibility, and creative agency.
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A new, robust understanding of what resiliency is based on interdisciplinary insights
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How creativity supports nervous system regulation
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Practical ways to rebuild creativity after burnout
02/ Healing from a Performance-Based Identity
When your worth is tied to output, creativity becomes fragile.
Many high-performing individuals unknowingly operate from a performance-based identity, where value is measured by productivity, achievement, or external validation. This talk examines how that mindset quietly sabotages creativity, increases anxiety, and leads to chronic dissatisfaction. More importantly, it offers a path toward healthier motivation and more sustainable creative work.
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The setup for developing a performance-based identity
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How performance pressure distorts creative risk-taking
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The hidden cost of “always being on”
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Reframing identity to support long-term creativity
03/ The Trustworthiness of Beauty
Why beauty still matters in a data-driven world.
In an age of metrics, optimization, and efficiency, beauty is often dismissed as subjective or expendable. This talk argues the opposite: that beauty is a legitimate form of information. By examining how humans intuitively respond to beauty, audiences learn why aesthetics shape trust, meaning, and decision-making—and why ignoring beauty leads to shallow solutions and disengaged users.
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Beauty as a form of communication, not decoration
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How beauty impacts the nervous system
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Navigating the tension of metrics and aesthetics
