The Creativity & Innovation Leadership Academy Certification Seminar represents a unique opportunity to learn directly from an original thinker with a remarkable record of success. In this engaging, energizing and life-changing 4-day program you will learn to apply the principles and methods described in Michael J. Gelb’s books including the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci to coaching, managing and guiding others to fulfill their creative potential. You will also learn how to apply the principles to leading organizational change and innovation initiatives.

This Seminar will:

• Provide you with the confidence, skills and tools you need to optimize your own memory, learning ability and creativity.
• Offer a comprehensive, original process for crafting a creative vision and making it real.
• Teach you how to use the 7 principles in coaching others individually and in facilitating
  group creative process.
• Help you function as a powerful, positive agent for change, creativity and innovation.

This Seminar is for leaders, coaches, consultants, managers, trainers, HR and OD professionals, educators, change agents and people working on innovation teams.

This program is for YOU if:

• You are ready to take your own skills as a creative thinker and innovator to new heights.
• You want to learn how to generate abundance and fulfillment by helping others realize their creative power.
  *You are committed to being a creative leader and a positive force in guiding change and facilitating innovation.

Graduates of this seminar will receive certification as a “Creativity and Innovation Leadership Coach.” Graduates are certified by The Academy and Michael J. Gelb to apply the 7 da Vinci principles in the context of their leadership, management, consulting, coaching, teaching and training work. Certified coaches will be invited to link with Michael’s website.

Day 1

• Welcome
• Overview & Goal Setting
• The Seven Da Vinci Principles
• Application to Professional/Personal Development
• Improving Memory, Accelerating Learning & Goal-Setting

Day 2

• Becoming a Master-Mind-Mapper
• Guiding the Process of Vision-Crafting
• Leading Successful Creative Problem-Solving Sessions
• Cultivating the Art of Accurate Empathy

Day 3

• Advanced Coaching, Facilitation and Meeting Management
• Becoming a Creativity & Innovation Champion
• Dinner/Celebration: “Wine-Tasting as Team Building”
• Musical Recital

Day 4

• Mastering the 5 Keys to Unforgettable Presentations
• Overcoming Resistance to Change: Creative Strategies for Influence and Persuasion
• Action Planning for Successful Integration

The first Creativity & Innovation Leadership Academy was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 24-28, 2008. Twenty-four people attended the five day program. Corporations represented included Merck, Boeing, Hallmark and Electron Energy Corporation. The class also included a number of world class executive coaches, physicians and entrepreneurs.

Participant comments include:

This program has been very freeing for me and really everything I’d hoped for and more.

This particular retreat gave me an incredible opportunity to integrate very valuable information and a systematic process by which I can expand and up-level my capacity to propel businesses forward

Michael’s techniques and inspirations helped me find my genius to find my path.

What I experienced gave me the option of seeing what’s going on through the creative lenses of the great geniuses of history.

Michael gave us a sense of the harmony of creation and implementation.

One of the key things I took away from the program is: Less notes, more music.

Michael is really one of the leading practitioners of creativity and innovation in the world today and he has a way of laying it out that allows the audience to experience what it’s like to live a renaissance lifestyle.

There’s no question that this program was as intense an experience as I’ve ever had in terms of my own intellectual stimulation coupled with spiritual and soulful thinking…a program like this that is so well thought through and has taken advantage of so many different angles, in fact every possible angle of coming at personal, professional and soulful growth. It is more than worth while and I couldn’t recommend it more.

The group of people that are here I haven’t seen the likes of collected together in one place in many years.

This is a place where you can come and find the true creative and innovative talents that are within you and innovate those abilities to bring benefit to yourself and the world.

Special Guest Faculty:

We will have a number of extraordinary special guest presenters for this seminar. Previous presenters have included Professor Raj Sisodia (Co-author of Firms of Endearment), Gary De Rodriguez (President of Life Design International), Paul Scheele (Author of PhotoReading and Founder of Learning Strategies Corp.), Dr. Dale Schusterman (author of Sign Language of the Soul), Rob Berkley (Executive Coaching Expert), Carol Rose Brown (renowned Santa Fe based artist), George Cappannell (Organizational Development authority and author of Authenticity) and Bill Galen (renowned Santa Fe based artist).

Santa Fe overflows with natural beauty and exquisite light. Nestled in the foothills at the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains at an altitude of 7,500 feet, the city is surrounded by thousands of acres of National Forest and pristine wilderness. Known as the “City Different”, Santa Fe is cosmopolitan without being metropolitan. In other words, it offers the charm and grace of a small town with great restaurants, world-class art galleries and performing arts venues. The “City of Holy Faith” offers a unique Spanish and Native American heritage. Santa Fe is also well known as a center for alternative healing, spirituality and culture as well as for art (with over 150 galleries). There is also great hiking, mountain biking, white-water rafting, fishing and horseback riding.

Santa Fe’s superb museums include the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, and The Museum of Indian Arts. With Santa Fe as your base you can easily visit Albuquerque, Taos, Carlsbad Caverns, Bandolier Cliff Dwellings, Petroglyph National Monument or take a ride on the worlds longest Tramway to the top of Sandia Peak.

When Georgia O’Keeffe was asked
why she lived in New Mexico, she
always responded, “It’s the Light!”

Seminar Tuition

$3,975.00. Includes the 4-day seminar, and all training materials (Travel, accommodation and meal expenses are the responsibility of the registrant. The seminar includes lunch each day and a celebratory dinner, wine-tasting and musical recital on the final evening). A non-refundable deposit of $500 secures your place. Once received or charged, payments are final and non-refundable. (If we are able to fill your place in time then you will be credited with the amount you’ve deposited toward the next Coach Certification Seminar). Seminar tuition must be paid in full 30 days before program begins. Tuition reductions are available for multiple registrations from the same company and for non-profit, educational organizations. Please call for details.

The dates for next Academy to be announced soon.

Please contact us by phone or email with any questions.

“I wish to work miracles”
-Leonardo Da Vinci