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Steven Dahlberg
Principal, International Centre for Creativity and Imagination
Steven
Dahlberg is principal of the Connecticut-based International Centre
for Creativity and Imagination, a firm dedicated to applying
creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations and
communities. Dahlberg has more than 15 years of experience promoting
and teaching creative thinking and problem solving in the United
States, South Africa, Europe and Asia. He collaborates regularly with
artists, scientists, business people, educators, museum professionals,
community leaders and others to help people deliberately unleash and
harness their creative thinking skills. Clients apply their creativity
to engaging people in their community, building partnerships and
teams, integrating creativity into learning, improving innovation,
developing new products, enhancing communications and marketing, doing
creative problem solving, providing professional development, and
linking public art and creativity. Dahlberg currently is serving as an
adviser for the Guggenheim Museum's "The Art of Problem
Solving" research project, and co-leading the "Creative
Wisdom Workshops" that link creativity and purposeful retirement.
He has worked with corporations, schools, nonprofits and government
agencies including Guggenheim Museum, Seagate Technology, 3M, PDMA,
VNU Business Media, Yahoo-sponsored Creativity and Cognition workshop,
General Mills, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism,
Americans for Libraries Council, University of Connecticut, Center for
Learning in Retirement, Creativity Beyond Borders, Hartford Public
Library, Windham Arts Center, and World Knowledge Forum (South
Korea).
He
was head of the Creative Education Foundation, director of the annual
Creative Problem Solving Institute, program and communications
director of the Institute for Creative Studies, and adviser to two
long-time toy inventors who launched a creativity consulting business.
Dahlberg has designed and taught graduate-level creativity courses at
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, as well as guest lectured at
several universities. He was program manager and associate editor at
the global publishing company, VNU, where he developed international
training and online learning conferences in the U.S., Europe and
Asia.
Dahlberg
authored the foreword to Education
is Everybody’s Business: A Wake-Up Call to Advocates of Educational
Change and his articles have appeared in Training magazine,
Knowledge Management News magazine, Global Knowledge Review,
Breakpoint creativity newsletter, and Creative Training
Techniques among others. He has been heard on multiple radio
programs and he edits the ageing
as exile? and Applied
Imagination blogs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
journalism and bioethics from the University of St. Thomas, and
currently is completing a graduate certificate in gerontology at the
University of Connecticut. Dahlberg is also a partner in Elder
Care Expos, LLC.
To
Contact:
Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
steve @ appliedimagination.co.uk (send)
+1 612 432 5442
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