In Search of Creative Leadership

 at Leicester Business School, UK, on September 18th 2007

In collaboration with 

Morning Theme - Leading Creativity
09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome - Prof. David Asch (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, De Montfort University)
10:15 - 10:30 Introduction to the Event - ECLO President
10:30 - 11:10 Keynote Speaker - Laura Dyer - Executive Director of the East Midlands Arts Council
11:10 - 11:25 Coffee and Cake - Communication and Connecting
11:25 - 11:40 Engaging a Creative Mind-Set
11:40 - 12:25 3 Parallel Themed Discussion Groups

  • Coaching, Assessing, Facilitating Creativity - This session will explore the challenges of continuous active learning when teaching creativity in a university context

  • Supporting Creativity within Business - This session draws on hands-on experience of working with businesses to enhance creativity
  • Climates of Creativity - This session explores the tension between hierarchy and horizontal networks. Horizontal networks provide the creativity but hierarchy is needed for focus - getting the balance right
12:25 - 12:55 Discussion Groups Knowledge Sharing

 

12:55 - 13:45 Eat and Meet

 

Afternoon Theme - Facilitating for Climates of Informality
13:45 - 14:25 Keynote Speaker - Ray Charlton - Transition Partnerships
14:25 - 14:40 Engaging a Creative Mind-Set
14:40 - 15:25 3 Parallel Themed Discussion Groups
  • Stimulating Tacit Knowledge Transfer - This session will draw on the experiences of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and will focus on the difficulties to transfer "soft" knowledge which SMEs want. How can "creativity transfer" occur in business?
  • Best Models of Creative Incubation - This session will focus on the regeneration of inner-city areas while developing creative industries and the challenges such partnerships create.
  • Creativity in the public and not for profit sectors - This session will explore drivers for creativity in organisations where competitive pressures are not the main driver
15:25 - 15:40 Coffee and Cake - Communication and Connecting
15:40 - 16:25 Discussion Groups Knowledge Sharing
16:25 - 17:00

Pernille Berg - Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College

Is it Possible for the Public Sector to be Creative? The Danish example
17:00 - 17:00 Close

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