My shift in focus from leadership to creatorship has been a deliberate one. Historically, I focused on leaders. Influence a leader and you’ve influenced the organization. Develop the leadership and things would change for the better.…or so I thought.

Unfortunately this approach contributes to the belief that only leaders make things happen. It feeds the illusion that someone up there can, and should, save us.

We have tried to expand the meaning of leader to denote, “we are all leaders,” but that hasn’t really worked either. Leadership is a hierarchical model. A leader needs followers. By definition followers are dependent on the leader, largely invisible and considered less important. Followers are not held responsible for their leaders.

However today's problems "cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that generated them." Science is expanding its thinking from the Newtonian world-view that saw the world, including humans, as mechanistic objects and separate beings to a quantum understanding of systems, energy and interconnection. We are learning how at the level of thought we create results and affect the world around us. We are learning that at the most fundamental level, everything exists in relationship.

To be able to use this information, we need a new model of how we work together, one that acknowledges we are all creators. We need to be better at co-creating, and at developing cultures that support creatorship within our organizations and in our communities.

I'm a practical futurist, exploring the application of "creatorship" to both how we live and work, and to how we run our businesses.
This is the focus of my writing and my work.

A little background: I got my on-the-job training with Procter & Gamble where I worked as an internal organizational consultant, working on leadership development, change management, new product start-up designs, strategic planning and diversity work. Later, as a independent organizational consultant, I worked with a variety of organizations (e.g., Ohio Hospice, Toledo United Way, Dana Corporation, Great Rivers Girl Scout Council) doing strategic planning, leadership training and management consulting. Today I provide coaching and consulting on the skills and ways of thinking central to the skills of creatorship.

Education:
Certified as an Ontological Coach, The Newfield Network, 2001
Certified One-on-One Provider for HeartMath, The Institute of HeartMath, 1999.
Graduate work 1972-74 in Social Psychology, University of Cincinnati
 M. A. (Psychology), University of Cincinnati, 1972;
B. A. (Psychology), University of Toledo, 1968;
 Licensed Massage Therapist (Ohio State Medical Board, 1988)