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Conference Schedule
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

8:00 AM – 9:30 PM     Opening Plenary:
Creativity: A Perspective through Retrospective - Panel moderated by Darlene Boyd (Director of University of California Gifted Students Academy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California), and including ACA past presidents Marilyn Schoeman Dow, Dorothy Sisk, Tara Grey Coste, David Tanner, William Wurtz & current ACA President, Larry Busch - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM   Morning Plenary:
A Formula for Sustainable Global Prosperity - David Pearce Snyder (Independent Consulting Futurist) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM   Concurrent Sessions:
Using Technology Creatively for Education - David Schwartz (President/ CEO. Q-link, Inc., Conshocken, Pennsylania)

Exploring Creativity Research - Tara Grey Coste (Associate Professor, Leadership & Organizational Studies, University of Southern Maine, Standish, Maine) & Mary Murdock (Associate Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York)

From Concept to Cash: Monetizing Your Creative Idea - Leslie Martinich (President, Competitive Focus,. Austin, Texas) & David Angelow(Executive Director, Business Foundations LLC, Austin, Texas)

Understanding and Using the Aesthetic (Creative) Potential in all Forms of Communication - Kim Smith (Austin, Texas)

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM    Luncheon Plenary:
Enabling Collaborative Creativity at Work - Michael Beyerlein (Director of the Center for Collaborative Organizations, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas) - Handout - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading

2:30 PM– 5:15 PM      
How the Power of Story Creates Strategic Action and Corporate Culture - Gerald Lantz (Founder/ President, Stories That Work, Thornton, Pennsylvania)

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM     Concurrent Sessions:
Silent Story Telling - The Art of Conveying 1,000s of Words Without Saying a Word - Robert Alan Black (Ph.D., CSP, Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities, Athens, Georgia)

Staging A Pre-Volution: Creativity and Change for Organizations - Karen Franta Love (Vice President, The de Bono Group, St. Louis, Missouri)

Trends in Collaborative Creativity & Innovation - Panel led by Paul Schumann (President, GlocalVantage, Inc., Austin, Texas) & including Renee Callaghan (Director, Innovation Services Decision Analyst, Editor/Writer, IdeaFlow: Creativity and Innovation blog), Jeff De Cagna (Chief Strategist and Founder, Principled Innovation LLC, Arlington, Virginia), Ellen Domb (PQR Group, Upland, California), and Jon Lebkowsky (Senior Consultant and CEO at Polycot Consulting, L.L.C., Austin, Texas)
                                         
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM       Concurrent Sessions:
Google and Innovation: What Every Organization Can Learn! - Jeff De Cagna (Chief Strategist and Founder, Principled Innovation, LLC, Arlington, Virginia)

Trends in Creative Technology - Ed Schipul (President/CEO, Schipul - The Web Marketing Company, Houston, Texas) + Online Growth Handout

Applied Critical and Creative Thinking - Darlene Boyd (Director of University of California Gifted Students Academy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California)

8:30 PM      Evening Program; ET Light: Enlarging the Circle of Creativity to Include the Doctor Whos - Carol McCormick (Storyteller, Trainer, and Public Speaker, SpiritMind Institute, Plymouth, Minnesota) - Interview

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

7:15 AM     eXtreme Thinking - Rolf Smith (The School for Innovators, Fredericks-burg, Texas)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM     Breakfast Plenary:
Giraffe Heroes Spotlight #2– Ann Medlock, founder, The Giraffe Heroes Project
Extreme Creativity: A Perspective on the Future - Ann Hermann-Nehdi (CEO, Herrmann Brain Dominance Institute, Lake Lure, North Carolina) - - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview

9:45 AM – 11:15 AM    Concurrent Sessions:
Creativity, Innovation, and Global Competitiveness - Ulises Pabon (Executive Vice-President, QBS, Inc, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Community Weaving: A new solution for a new century! – Cheryl Honey, C.P.P. (President of Excel Strategies, Inc. and Daily Points of Light Honoree, Bothell, Washington) - Interview

CombinFormation and the Future of Knowledge Creation - Andruid Kerne (Interface Ecology Lab, Center for Study of digital Libraries, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas) & Rodney Hill (University Professorship in Teaching Excellence, Institute for Applied Creativity, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)

Achieving Creative Environments within Organizations - Brad Fregger (CEO, Groundbreaking Press, Austin, Texas) and Susan Gilbertson (President, Gilbertson and Associates, Sarasota, Florida) + Handout

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM  Concurrent Sessions:
Accelerated Learning: A Model for Creative Learning and Teaching - Joyce Langenegger (Graduate Student, Fielding Graduate University, Houston, Texas)

Depression as Metamorphosis - Carol McCormick (Storyteller, Trainer, and Public Speaker, SpiritMind Institute, Plymouth, Minnesota) - Interview

Risk Taking as a Factor of Creative Thinking - Abdullah Alsafi (Professor, Educational Psychology, King Abdullah University, Abha, Saudi Arabia)

Creativity in the Cosmos: A Philosophical Appreciation (presenting the “Process Thought” of Alfred North Whitehead) - Adam Blatner (Teacher / Writer, Senior University, Georgetown, Texas) + Paper presented - Interview

12:45 PM – 2:15 PM    Luncheon Plenary:
Giraffe Heroes Spotlight #3– Ann Medlock, founder, The Giraffe Heroes Project
Creative Marketing & Fundraising: The Lance Foundation - Randall Macon (Chief of Innovation, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM     Concurrent Sessions:
The Birth of Novelty: Ensuring New Ideas Get a Fighting Chance – Russell Ward, (Director of Global Consumer Insight Research, IMP, Inc., Sun Prairie, Wisconsin),  Ken Lauer (Senior Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analyst, International Masters Publishers, Corfu, New York) & Katleen Delthier (Marketing and Training Coordinator, Kesyoni, Inc., Corfu, New York)

Innovate On PurposeTM - Dean Hering (Chief Innovator, NetCentrics, Raleigh, North Carolina) & Jeffrey Phillips(Vice President, Marketing, NetCentrics, Raleigh, North Carolina)

Creative Ways to Recruit a Creative Workforce: A Case Study - Nathan Kracklauer (Director of Content Development, Austin, Texas)

Innovation Principles for Nonprofits - Jeff De Cagna  (Chief Strategist and Founder, Principled Innovation LLC, Arlington, Virginia)

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM      Afternoon Plenary:
Thinking Like an Imagineer: The Disney Experience – Peggy Van Pelt (Author / Consultant, Los Angeles, California) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview (coming soon)

8:30 PM – 9:30 PM     Evening Program:
Finding Magic in the Mundane - Mary Gordon Spence (Owner, Ask Mary Gordon, Austin, Texas)

9:30 PM -        An In-Depth Study of Personal Creative Maintenance - Suzanne Carroll (Adjunct Professor, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas)

Building and Sustaining an ACA Chapter to Foster Networking, Learning, and Personal Growth – Larry Busch, ACA President and Barry Silverberg, ACA Executive Director

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Friday, March 24, 2006

7:15 AM – 8:00 AM     eXtreme Thinking - Rolf Smith (The School for Innovators, Fredericksburg, Texas)

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM     Breakfast Plenary:
Discovering the Meaning Difference: Creativity and Responsibility - Alex N. Pattakos (Director, Center for Personal Meaning, Sante Fe, New Mexico) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview

9:45 AM – 11:15 AM    Concurrent Sessions:
Dream Work as a Practical Creativity Resource - Dillon McKinsey (Consultant, Austin, Texas)

Inspired Creative Thoughts: How to Generate Them Even in Pressure-Packed Situations - Dianna Amorde (President, Inspired Leap Consulting, Inc., Austin, Texas)

Think in Another Box - Mark Fox (CEO, Sly as a Fox, LLC, Roy, Utah)

Timeless Creativity & Information Journeys:  Turning Questions & Answers  into Information Gathering & Knowledge Sharing Experiences - Cynthia Lee Barrancotto (Reference & Instruction Librarian, Flagler College/Proctor Library, St. Augustine , Florida ) - Handout

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM  Concurrent Sessions:
Creativity@Work in Multiple Walks of Life - Panel moderated by Joyce Juntune (Director of the Institute for Applied Creativity, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas) & including Marcia Bastian, Baris Gunersel, William Wurtz (Texas A&M University Graduate Students)

From Creativity to Innovation: Making the Path Easier - Donald Noone (Professor of Business, Caldwell College Westfield, New Jersey)

The “How” of Communication, Compassionate Communications - Pat Siebert(Practitioner,Feldenkrais Center of Austin, Texas)

The Imagineering Workout: Exercises to Shape Your Creative Muscles – Peggy Van Pelt (Practitioner,Feldenkrais Center of Austin, Texas

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM    Luncheon Plenary:
Whither the Creativity Clan: Challenges for Global Solidarity - Kirpal Singh (Professor, School of Economics & Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM     Concurrent Sessions:
Facilitator’s Dilemma: How to Get People to Really Participate - Marci Segal (President, CreativityLand Inc., Toronto, Canada)

Creating Your Living Applying Psychodramatic Methods in Everyday Life –   Adam Blatner (Teacher / Writer, Senior University, Georgetown, Texas) + Paper Presented - Interview

A Study of the Relationships Among Gender, Group Size, Personal Creativity, and Group Technology - Ta-Wei Lee (Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) - Interview (coming soon)

So You Think You’re Creative? Making the Sale - Tara Grey Coste (Associate Professor, Leadership & Organizational Studies, University of Southern Maine, Standish, Maine)

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM      Afternoon Plenary:
Corporate Creativity - Sam Stern (Professor and Dean, School of Education, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading

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Saturday, March 25, 2006

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM     Breakfast Plenary:
Creativity is Not Being Afraid to Fail: The 3M Experience - Andrew Ouderkirk (3M Corporate Scientist, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota) - audio availble for purchase on CD or down loading - Interview (coming soon)

9:45 AM – 12:30 PM   Thinking Expedition  - Rolf Smith  (The School for Innovators, Fredericksburg, Texas)

9:45 AM – 11;15 AM    Concurrent Sessions:
Who’s Filling My Sponge: A Whole Brain Approach to Creating More Capacity for Change  - Lynne Krause (NAVSUP Change Management Team, Naval ICP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Exploring Organizational Change, Work, and Family Dynamics Through Art - Elaine St. Marie (Software Engineering Program Manager, Hewlitt Packard, Austin, Texas)

Harvesting the Fruits of Innovation by Sowing the Seeds of Uncertainty - David Swedlow (Co-Founder, SPCI - Synergy for Practical Conceptual Innovation)

11:30 AM – 12;30 PM  Concurrent Sessions:
Chilean Creativity@Work - Antonio Basauri (Secretario Académico, Carrera de Publicidad, Escuela de Comunicación, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile)

Creating an Innovation Commons - Paul Schumann (President, Glocal Vantage, Inc., Austin, Texas; President, Central Texas World Future Society Chapter)

The CREATAS Series: Progressive and Creative Steps to Self-Discovery - Roberta Shoemaker-Beal (Art Therapy Clinician, Austin, Texas)

12:45 PM – 2:00 PM    Luncheon Plenary:
Channeling Creativity - Rodney Hill (University Professorship in Teaching Excellence, Institute for Applied Creativity, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas) will present his experience as a leading professor of creativity. Responses and thoughts from Peggy Van Pelt (Author / Consultant, Los Angeles, California), Kirpal Singh (Professor, School of Economics & Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore), and Larry Busch (ACA President) - Slides

2:00 PM Conference Adjourned

Conference Leadership
Linda Shafer & Barry Silverberg
Conference co-Chairs