Up Your Creative Genius
36 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIf you are looking to change something in your life, launch a new business, create a new mindset, or learn how to change your brain to achieve your goals more quickly, you can do it! This podcast will be the accelerant to ignite the fire within so you blast off to success. Your host is Patti Dobrowolski.
Patti Dobrowolski, author of 9 Tips to Up Your Creative Genius and DRAWING SOLUTIONS: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life, is founder of Up Your Creative Genius, a consulting firm that uses visuals and creative processes to help companies and individuals around the world accelerate growth and change.
A critically acclaimed comic performer, three-time TEDx and internationally recognized speaker, writer and business consultant, she has brought innovative visual practices to Fortune 100 companies, government, not for profits and small businesses. Patti holds an Masters in Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Her large format strategic illustrations grace the walls of Nike, Microsoft Inc, Starbucks, Pepsico, FedEx, Turner Broadcasting, FritoLay North America, Hoffman LaRoche Inc., Providence Health Services, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USDA and The Seattle Space Needle.
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Dan Levy: Why the More Space philosophy promotes Creative Change
May 23, 2022 01:00 - 42 minutes - 16.8 MBDan is a strategist, creative, and skilled facilitator. He is also an educator, global speaker, tech investor, and startup founder. His ethos is embedded in the More Space philosophy, to transform employees to intrapreneurs. So they are better equipped to tackle big problems. So they have the capability to create new solutions, and the confidence to put them in motion. This enables organizations to foster a culture of creative confidence and collaboration. Human-Centered Design (HCD) and D...
Jan Santos: How to make your personal brand stand out and shine
May 09, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes - 14.9 MBJan Santos holds a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts major in Advertising from Batangas State University, Philippines and International Baccalaureate Teaching Certification for Visual Arts and Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology) He is the CEO of The Creative Scoop which is a Branding Agency that helps businesses from Australia, Germany and the UK, grow through the utilization of social media and modern creative content. He also coaches entrepreneurs, abroad either 1:1 or group, with his Bran...
David Cutler: How to build Winning Teams - Playing the Innovation Game
May 02, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 14.6 MBDr. David Cutler, a self-proclaimed WEEKEND TRAVELER, is a pianist and composer equally comfortable with classical, jazz, popular, folk, and world music. Stretching what it means to be a performer, events regularly involve crazy antics: extreme eclecticism, choreography, humor, interdisciplinary collaboration, superhero costumes, character ushers, celebrity cameos, kazoo playing marching bands, you name it. Cutler's remarkable composition SuperNova dramatically reimagines the most popular s...
Scott Ward: How to be a successful artist and community leader
April 25, 2022 01:00 - 38 minutes - 13.2 MBOriginally from the Minneapolis area, Scott Ward studied commercial design and illustration at the University of Minnesota. Scott has worked as an artist and designer in advertising, clothing design, graphic design, theater design, landscape design, interior design, illustration and murals, and has shown his paintings in many galleries around the country. After his introduction to The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, Scott found himself facilitating creativity groups and eventually becoming ...
Douglas Ferguson: Sparking Change - Facilitating Small Magical Steps to Big Results
April 18, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBDouglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based change agency that helps enterprises spark, accelerate, and sustain innovation. He specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and ...
Eva Avenue: How to visualise your abstract future and turn it from vision to reality
April 11, 2022 01:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBEva Avenue is an abstract expressionist painter in the East Village, NYC. She has mainly made a living as an editor and writer at newspapers and online publications. She has been publishing an art zine since 2009 called The Nightly Noodle Monthly, produces her own art shows, and is currently working on her debut film project The Art Show Movie. She is co-writing the soundtrack with friends and working a full-time job at The Art Students League of New York. Her dream is to have a storefront s...
Dan Sheridan: How to Run Happy - Leading with Positivity and Kindness
April 04, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBDan Sheridan is President and COO of Brooks Running. He started his career 23 years ago as a National sales rep. He’s a graduate of University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Brooks Running makes men's and women's high-performance running shoes, apparel, and accessories that meet the needs of runners of all levels. Entirely focused on the run, Brooks is dedicated to inspiring people to run and be active. Brooks creates innovative equipment that keeps you running longer, farther a...
Meagan O'Leary: How to get out of poor me syndrome and survive cancer
March 28, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBMeagan is a Director in the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization at Microsoft, realizing the connected customer experience vision across customer touchpoints. Over the course of her career, Meagan has driven award-winning operational improvements, digital transformation, and modern technology deployment within complex, matrixed environments. She has been recognized throughout her career for her collaborative leadership style, uncanny bias for action, and ability to lead teams in...
Joni Wickham: How your leadership style helps you serve your community and overcome gender bias
March 21, 2022 01:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBA native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Joni Wickham and her indisputable southern accent arrived in Kansas City almost 10 years ago after leading initiatives within state and federal government as well as advocacy organizations. In her eight years with the mayor’s office—the majority of them spent as Chief of Staff—Joni has proven herself as an accomplished political strategist, communications expert, and organizational leader. She directed public policy initiatives, communications tactics, an...
Hoyin Cheung of Remo on how to effectively pivot your tech startup
March 14, 2022 01:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBHoyin is a serial entrepreneur, his core passions lie in helping businesses to grow in a scalable way with software tools. Hoyin has over 7+ years of experience building remote teams and has worked with Fortune 100 companies like Nike, Best Buy, TJ Maxx, SunGard, Cardinal Health, and Kaiser Permanente. He is currently passionate about creating authentic conversations that drive meaningful relationships in the most human way possible with the help of technology. Timestamp 1:42 Backstory of ...
Moe Carrick: How to overcome fear and build trusted partnerships
March 07, 2022 03:00 - 42 minutes - 78 MBMoe Carrick is on a mission to restore humanity to work one magnificent people leader at a time. She believes that people can and should thrive at work, and that when they do, organizations succeed. With over 30+ years of work in organizations on issues of partnership, leadership, inclusion, strategy and culture. Moe believes that rigorous self-awareness, courage, honest dialogue, curiosity, compassion, accountability, and empathy are fundamentals to building full and inclusive partnership...
Mark Tippin: How to unlock your potential with powerful conversations
February 28, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBMark Tippin is a published author, internationally-recognized keynote speaker and instructor in remote collaboration, human-centered design and visual facilitation. He is currently the Director, Strategic Next Practices at MURAL and a certified Lead Instructor at LUMA Institute. He brings over two decades of experience helping teams unlock their potential to lead powerful conversations in their organizations. Mark believes facilitation is the quintessential 21st-century skill and that exten...
Gayle Edwards: How to create a bigger impact with better branding and messaging
February 21, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBGayle Edwards is an International, award-winning Global Impact & Personal Brand Strategist, Best-selling Author and Speaker who works with Entrepreneurial and Corporate "Square Pegs" to help them build their identity and authority within their marketplace! More than that though, Gayle is a power-full and intuitive Teacher and Healer who uses her gift of recognising ‘stuck energy’ to help her clients release it so they are able to communicate with confidence, clarity and conviction! If you ...
Bhavana Bartholf: Trust Your Authentic Self
February 14, 2022 15:57 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBBhavana Bartholf is an award-winning transformational leader and sought-after expert in the field of providing vision and accelerating Digital Transformation for corporations across industries worldwide. Throughout her career, she has served as a transformational leader, innovative technologist, STEM advocate, and ally for women and racial/ethnical minorities (REM). She has a proven track record for growing female/REM workforce while promoting diversity and inclusion and is dedicated to driv...
Stacey Stevenson: The importance of creating equality for LGBTQ in corporate environments
February 07, 2022 01:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBStacey Stevenson is an experienced business leader who has worked in Defense, Technology, and Finance senior roles. She was recently Senior Managing Director at Charles Schwab and Co. in Westlake, Texas, where she oversaw major initiatives, including Voice Technology, Digital, and Talent. While at Charles Schwab, she tirelessly advocated for creating a safe and inclusive space for all in the workplace in her roles as local and National co-chair for Schwab’s Pride ERG and through the partners...
Natalie Webb: Women empowerment and environmental sustainability in the coffee industry
January 31, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBNatalie Webb is the executive director of Cafecita, a fair trade coffee company focused on women's empowerment and environmental sustainability. Prior to moving into the coffee world, Natalie had worked as a human rights lawyer, traveling to over 70 countries and living in 10, before returning to her hometown of Los Angeles to create a company that combined her love of coffee with her passion for social justice. Timestamp 1:21 What made who Natalie Webbs is today 12:08 Dive deep into the ...
Marcy Willard: Why this revolutionary mental health tool promises to unlock your child's potential
January 24, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBMarcy Willard is a CEO with a Lean and Agile mindset. A huge source of pride is her team who has a culture of empathy, cross-functional teamwork, and an environment that says loud and clear “we’ve got your back.” They commit to not only their customer’s mental health but also their own. Marcy and her team work hard while also respecting the importance of health, rest and family time. In doing so they bring a fresh and enthusiastic energy to the families they serve. Furthermore, her backgrou...
Leigh Anne Taylor Knight: How do you create change and embrace opportunities with an abundance mindset
January 17, 2022 01:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBLeigh Anne Taylor Knight is a resourceful, future-focused leader who currently serves The DeBruce Foundation in Kansas City as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. The Foundation’s mission is to expand pathways to economic growth and opportunity. It seeks to help people discover what they want to do and what they’re good at doing, to open more career possibilities for the future of work. Dr. Taylor Knight is driven to lead the leveraging of resources across sectors for innovative...
Pete Cohen: How to own what you are doing so you achieve more and better yourself
January 10, 2022 01:00 - 37 minutes - 6.46 MBPete works with teams and large groups to tackle corporate challenges, raise social awareness and build capability for the future. Connecting with others through his background in psychology, communication, music, business and technology to lead and marshal people from different functions, disciplines, organisations and sectors to work together on projects with a common purpose. Pete's client base ranges from big banks and telecommunication companies to emerging ventures in the digital prod...
Joseph Rosenfeld: How to transform your style, create a presence and claim your true self
January 03, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes - 7.44 MBJoseph Rosenfeld was born to be a personal style strategist. He had an epiphany in high school that remains the crux of his work for over thirty years. He theorized that personal style could transcend physical attraction. Joseph developed a strategy that saved and transformed his life. And he has gone on to transform the lives of an esteemed clientele. Clients know Joseph as a "style savant," and he is most called to serve those on a quest for transformation. His hallmark style strategy enc...
Robin Fisher: How to personalize your wardrobe to best show your character
December 27, 2021 01:00 - 41 minutes - 7.1 MBFashion industry veteran and expert Robin Fisher is one of the leading image consultants in the Washington DC Metro area. In 2008 Robin left the corporate fashion world and put her passion behind a new labor of love: Polished, a full service personal styling and corporate image consulting agency. Robin's experience in the fashion industry spans over twenty five years and has included positions ranging from Executive Department Store Buyer, Magazine Creative Director, International Production...
Ram Castillo: How to make lightning-quick decisions towards your best creative future
December 20, 2021 01:00 - 53 minutes - 21.5 MBRam Castillo is a Design Director, two-time Author, Speaker, CreativeLive Instructor, Decision-making Business Coach and Approved Advisor based in Sydney. His focus is to help business owners, entrepreneurs and leaders get unstuck through human centred design methodologies, creative strategy, digital marketing and branding. For 16 years Ram has been working for global agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, DDB, JWT, McCann. He was most recently the Head of Digital Design for Saatchi & Saatchi a...
Lani Phillips: How to make a difference through transformational leadership and modern mentoring
December 13, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 17.8 MBLani Phillips is the Vice President, US Channel Sales Organization in Microsoft. Lani has spent her 20 over years working in transforming others and in charge of the digital transformation and all the co-selling with partners. Lani was the 2020 Executive from linkage. Then she also got the global minded inclusive leader award, and she was on CRN the 2020 women in channel leading fearlessly in times of crisis. Furthermore, she started a live digital program, which is all about inspiring peop...
Lani Phillip: How to make a difference through transformational leadership and modern mentoring
December 13, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBLani Phillips is the Vice President, US Channel Sales Organization in Microsoft. Lani has spent her 20 over years working in transforming others and in charge of the digital transformation and all the co-selling with partners. Lani was the 2020 Executive from linkage. Then she also got the global minded inclusive leader award, and she was on CRN the 2020 women in channel leading fearlessly in times of crisis. Furthermore, she started a live digital program, which is all about inspiring peop...
Dan Hilbert: Surprising life lessons from launching a must try Bagel shop
December 06, 2021 01:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBDan Hilbert has lived in Connecticut for 30+ years and worked in New York City for 18 of those. Dan made a move to Texas about 6 years ago to be closer to his job. Dan spent his career in Marketing and Events with executive level positions at Fortune 100 companies. But when the pandemic hit - and like many others - Dan found himself with less working hours and pay. It was then that he started to fill his time making bagels - the NY Style bagels he had missed from the East Coast. With hours s...
Deena Pierott: How to embrace change with dignity and integrity with diversity and inclusion pioneer
November 29, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 17.1 MBDeena Pierott is also a Social Impact Entrepreneur and the Founder of the award winning and nationally recognized STEM+Arts program for youth of color called iUrban Teen which has chapters in four states, and most recently launched Black Women in STEM 2.0. Ms. Pierott is also a diversity strategist and international public speaker. She has served on several boards and commissions including a Gubernatorial appointment to the Commission on African American Affairs in the State of Washington. ...
Sunni Brown: How a doodling Zen student pivots in a creative career
November 21, 2021 23:00 - 38 minutes - 15.4 MBAbout Guest Sunni Brown is a social entrepreneur who has been named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. She is the best-selling author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution, a keynote speaker, expert meeting facilitator, book coach and dedicated Zen student. Her TED Talk has drawn more than 1.6 million views and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, ...
Pamela Austin: Finding Your True Calling
November 15, 2021 02:00 - 35 minutes - 14.3 MBPamela Austin is the Vice President, Global Head of Communications & Public Affairs at Woven Planet Holdings*. Pamela has spent her 25-year communications career working at the intersection of technology and social impact. She uniquely blends deep subject matter expertise with analysis, creativity, and surprise that drives strong communications and thought leadership strategies. She is known as the catalyst that can build and reshape corporate images and reputations. Pamela has a long track...
Julia Johnson: From childhood diabetes to Bikini bodybuilding champion, why its never too late to get fit
November 08, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBJulia has dedicated her life to finding the spiritual keys to getting the most out of life and in the last two years preserving her health through a major fitness transformation. After childhood diabetes, a double organ transplant, triple cardiac bypass, & thyroidectomy, Julia decided to reclaim her health and began a fitness journey at age 62. By age 64 she was on the stage at an NPC Masters Bodybuilding competition for women 55+ in age, and she won. It was a way to celebrate 30 years since...
Shaun Bernstein: How to Make a Life-changing Pivot, Survive, and Thrive
November 01, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 10 MBShaun Berstein began his career in journalism, but a life change was necessary so he reinvented himself as a lawyer. Later he returned to his former life, but on his terms. He began to focus his energy on helping people tell their stories so that it would inspire others to reach out and build a stronger patient community. Now he runs The Write Stuff Agency where he tells other people’s and businesses’ stories. It always goes back to the story. “Once a journalist, then a lawyer, but always...
Collette Hemmings: How to Create a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful Life by Practising Wellness
October 25, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 11.9 MBCollette Hemmings talks about how she uses eastern wellness and mindfulness practises to help others create a happy, healthy and peaceful life. Collette Hemmings grew up in Scotland and left to travel the world with her young family in her late twenties with Levi Strauss and Nike. From Belgium, the Netherlands, China and Indonesia to the US where she is now CEO and host of Brain Sports. With a lifelong passion of how the mind works, Collette studied many Eastern wellness practices and real...
Chaitra Vedullapalli: How to create economic access and grant access to influential leadership
October 18, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 12.2 MBChaitra Vedullapalli talks about how she was designated to be a housewife, but destined for greatness as one of the very few women in tech who are taking action to generate $1billion in net new global economic access for female entrepreneurs. She does this through her organization, Women In Cloud, and this is just the beginning. Using the power of AI, Cloud, and IoT, Chaitra Vedullapalli is fiercely committed to empowering business owners to access the digital economy through cloud technol...
Michele Delgado: How to pivot your career and take the big leap to become a consultant
October 11, 2021 08:00 - 19 minutes - 7.83 MBMichele Delgado, founder of Hartmetrics shares her experience leaving the travel industry, starting a consultancy and pivoting your career. With over 25 years of leadership experience, Michele has led and advised teams of 200+ while providing them with the tools, technology, and strategic initiatives they need to meet their goals. As a Certified Professional and a Master Business Coach, she believes that everyone should be celebrated for their talents and encouraged to pursue their dreams r...
Jonathan Javier: How To Turn Underdogs Into Winners
October 11, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 10.5 MBJonathan Javier, founder of Wonsulting talks about how to go from underdog into winners. Jonathan Javier is the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, which mission is to “turn underdogs into winners”. He's also worked in Operations at Snap, Google, and Cisco coming from a non-target school/non-traditional background. He works on many initiatives, providing advice and words of wisdom on LinkedIn and through speaking engagements. In total, he has led 210+ workshops in 9 different countries including the...
Roo Benjamin: How to reinvent yourself to be a writer and start publishing content
October 11, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 12.8 MBRoo Benjamin talks about how he is becoming a writer, how creativity works and how he is choosing his own niche. Roo Benjamin is a writer, friend, teacher, and coach. He is interested in nature, education, creativity, spirituality, ethics, personal growth “If you don't know where you are, where your starting point, you could get horribly lost.” “I believe that it’s powerful to live in an integrated life, a whole life” “Let the path reveal your own niche” Useful links: Roo Benjamin Mediu...
Trailer - Up Your Creative Genius
October 04, 2021 08:00 - 1 minute - 438 KBWelcome to the Up Your Creative Genius. I'm your host Patti Dobrowolski. New episode drops every week. Be sure to signup, subscribe, download, rate and review the podcast. Who is Patti Doborowolksi? Patti Dobrowolski, author of 9 Tips to Up Your Creative Genius and DRAWING SOLUTIONS: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life, is founder of Up Your Creative Genius, a consulting firm that uses visuals and creative processes to help companies and individuals around the world accelerate ...