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Applying Creativity to Business
It’s not a straight-line from A to B

Don't read any further if...

You think creativity is "nice to have" but not as important as "real business matters"
You are only concerned about ROI
You think everything has to be rational, practical and organised
You think everything you do has to have a logical reason

We live in interesting times.

The only constant thing is change.
And it’s not predictable.

Many of the “truths” we grew up with aren’t true any more.
The world has become so much more complex.

Decision-making has never been more difficult.

We believe all of this doesn't have to be a struggle, though.

That's why we invite new approaches in: improvisation, imagination, inspiration.

Learning through experiencing,
growing by playing, seriously.

Embark on an interactive learning and growth journey with us!

Through ACB (Applying Creativity to Business), first and foremost you will learn to embrace the opportunities that uncertainty brings.

You will learn how to get comfortable with feeling uncomfortable and how to tap into your intuition.

If you master this seeming contradiction, this time of volatile change becomes your canvas and you shift from reactive mode into actively creating.

This is about being OK with ambiguities, putting humans at the heart of what we do, and inspiring and encouraging people to realise their full potential.

Through the journey, participants can expect to gain improved self-confidence and resilience, and take away practical tools and ideas to help them be more curious and creative, enabling them to create better work for themselves as well as their teams and organisations.

This is for you if...

You are a leader who truly wants to enable transformation, bringing flexibility in where there was rigidity, replacing control and command with trust and autonomy.

You act as a change agent and you want to take your practice to another level to create lasting mindset and skillset change with and for the people you serve to make them future-fit.

You are a consultant e.g. an organisational developer, facilitator, coach or trainer and you seek to enhance your toolset to enable insights that go way deeper than the cognitive level.

Program Objective

The ACB journey is, in fact, a series of five interactive and practical organisational and personal development masterclasses that are composed of knowledge transfer and interactive offline exercises.

Through years of experimentation and work in knowledge management, collaborative, and artistic practices, some important qualities which are necessary in order to sustain innovation and creativity have been identified and we will awaken all of these throughout the ACB journey:

Curiosity…An inquiring mind
Resilience…Flexibility to bounce back
Reflection…Making space to contemplate
Improvisation…Going with the flow
Belonging...A sense of community
Tenacity...Try until it works

Program Components

The ACB journey is a blend between online and offline experiences and it has a focus on practical activity over theory.

What do we mean by that? We will meet online for input, reflection and sharing and then you get assignments and little experiments to do offline. All of these activities invite you to roll your sleeves up and create with your hands. The whole journey is spaced out over a several weeks so that the experiences and learnings have time to sink in and shape new habits.

When you work with us, you can expect:

Online half-day sessions

These are the backbone of the learning journey and it's where we all meet regularly. It's here where we provide input, answer questions and make room for reflection

Creation assignments

We will give you playful assignments for experiments to do on your own that will push you out of your comfort zone and invite you to try something new

Peer
group

With your learning buddies you will form small groups of 3-4 people to share and deepen your insights and bounce ideas

1:1
sessions

You will also get 3 hours of 1:1 time with one of the facilitators of the journey. This can help you to think your specific challenges through

Program Timing

We are convinced that the world needs this work (even though it might not dare say so yet), so we're offering the ACB journey as a program for individuals, teams, and organisations.

We're ready to start when you are.

Get in touch to sign your team or organisation up.

What to expect as a participant ?

We prepared a small info package as a PDF that gives you some more content on the components of the program, the timing, and the pricing.

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Bring it on!

A word on language: The ACB journey will take place in English and we explicitly welcome a group of participants from around the world.

Who we are

We're a group of people with a variety of backgrounds that includes: general business, information technology, project and program management, as well as organisational transformation. Over the past few years, we have continuously broadened our tool-set and acquired a plethora of effective methods to enable strategic insights, collaboration, play and innovation.

Stephanie has two superpowers: using both sides of her brain and asking questions.
Her background is as a painter, knowledge management consultant, IT process consultant, and accountant.
She plans and successfully executes big, unwieldy projects and programs. Big, cross-functional, cross-organisational initiatives, that don’t neatly fit into a box.
Stephanie lives in Berlin and works with clients around the world
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Stephanie Barnes

Chief Chaos Organiser

Sonja is great at inspiring others and creating meaningful human connections. She brought these gifts to good use in a career in corporate pharma where she grew through a variety of roles in marketing, sales and business in three different countries and three different companies before stepping into strategic HR at a regional level. Today, Sonja is based in northern Germany and works as a self-employed change catalyst.
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Sonja Sinz

Head of Communications

Manuel has always been fascinated by the energy and power that a playful attitude can unleash in people and organisations.
He has experience in project management, as a service designer, and as innovation consultant. He is an expert in LEGO® Serious Play® and enabling playful working envirnoments by cheekily challenging what is and asking what could be.
Manuel is an entrepreneur, facilitator, guest professor and change enabler based in Graz, Austria.
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Manuel Grassler

Head of Play