Born to Create
How Creativity Sparks Connection, Innovation, and Belonging in Our New World of Work
Published on 26. April 2024
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-63908-071-7 (ISBN)
Description
Spark your personal creativity, fuel your creative leadership skills, and set your organizational culture ablaze.
The employee experience has dramatically changed, catalysed by emerging technology, remote-first and hybrid work structures, and rapidly changing business environments. Well-being at work has become an essential strategic priority, while the pressure and demands on teams to deliver results have never been greater. Leaders crave guidance to ignite more connection, innovation, and belonging at work to attract, develop, and retain top talent and discover deeper purpose at work. Creativity is the essential ingredient in today's workplace to be more effective, joyful, and authentic.
Born to Create illustrates the power skills often developed by artists and applies them to corporate environments in a way that's engaging, memorable, and high impact. Through highlighted stories of artists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, each scene delivers examples to build creative confidence and resilience, lead others in the creative process, and foster a thriving creativity culture to achieve business value and personal fulfilment. At the end of each scene, readers will get practical exercises and assessment tools you can carry with you.
As people search for more meaning in their work and lives, Born to Create shines a light on the potential readers hold to imagine and realize the creative life they were destined to lead.
The employee experience has dramatically changed, catalysed by emerging technology, remote-first and hybrid work structures, and rapidly changing business environments. Well-being at work has become an essential strategic priority, while the pressure and demands on teams to deliver results have never been greater. Leaders crave guidance to ignite more connection, innovation, and belonging at work to attract, develop, and retain top talent and discover deeper purpose at work. Creativity is the essential ingredient in today's workplace to be more effective, joyful, and authentic.
Born to Create illustrates the power skills often developed by artists and applies them to corporate environments in a way that's engaging, memorable, and high impact. Through highlighted stories of artists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, each scene delivers examples to build creative confidence and resilience, lead others in the creative process, and foster a thriving creativity culture to achieve business value and personal fulfilment. At the end of each scene, readers will get practical exercises and assessment tools you can carry with you.
As people search for more meaning in their work and lives, Born to Create shines a light on the potential readers hold to imagine and realize the creative life they were destined to lead.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Greenleaf Book Group LLC
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63908-071-7 (9781639080717)
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Anne Jacoby is founder and CEO of Spring Street Solutions, a consultancy dedicated to sparking creativity at work. Through culture assessments, workplace strategy, leadership programs, and coaching engagements, Anne partners with leaders who crave more connection, innovation, and inclusion across their teams. Her clients range from high-growth tech startups to F500 global organizations.
With an MBA from NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Anne blends her creative roots and over twenty years of business know-how to enable desired organizational change. Before her pivot to the corporate world, Anne spent fifteen years as a performing artist in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. She has performed from coast to coast, appearing on stages from Radio City Music Hall to the Paramount Pictures studio lot. Her healthy obsession with storytelling began in her youth, and she attributes her creativity, curiosity, and grit to her climb from waitress to business leader and entrepreneur.
Anne is an advocate for arts education for young people and proudly served on the foundation board of her alma mater, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She is based in Redondo Beach, California where she lives with her husband and two creative kids.
With an MBA from NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Anne blends her creative roots and over twenty years of business know-how to enable desired organizational change. Before her pivot to the corporate world, Anne spent fifteen years as a performing artist in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. She has performed from coast to coast, appearing on stages from Radio City Music Hall to the Paramount Pictures studio lot. Her healthy obsession with storytelling began in her youth, and she attributes her creativity, curiosity, and grit to her climb from waitress to business leader and entrepreneur.
Anne is an advocate for arts education for young people and proudly served on the foundation board of her alma mater, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. She is based in Redondo Beach, California where she lives with her husband and two creative kids.