“Creative Thinking” - Are we educating ourselves out of creativity?

Start date 19-Feb-09 - 7:15 PM
End date n/a
Venue Melbourne Business School
Address
200 Leicester Street
Carlton, VIC
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Status Open
RSVP 19-Feb-09
Cost No charge
Contact t.gilles@student.mbs.edu or n.larosa@mbs.edu
Registration No longer accepting registrations

“Creative Thinking” - Are we educating ourselves out of creativity?
Interactive talk with Tania de Jong AM - Creativity Australia
Thursday February 19th 2009 - 7.00pm for 7.15pm
Melbourne Business School

Tania de Jong AM is passionate about getting creativity back into business and leadership. Creativity Australia is the latest of Tania’s many entrepreneurial initiatives. Creativity Australia provides strategies and tools that stimulate greater creative thinking and mental wellbeing in leadership and workplaces.

In 2006 Tania received the Ernst and Young Australian Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her work with The Song Room charity which she founded. Tania’s earlier awards include the "Outstanding Individual Contribution to Australian Culture" (1998) and the Accessibility Award in The Melbourne Awards (2005). She was a finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards (2001). In 2007, Tania was inducted into the AGSE Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame and in June 2008 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the arts.

Come along with your colleagues and increase your understanding of why creativity is not fully understood or valued. Get your creative juices going in a session that will inspire you to unlock your potential for leadership & making a difference.

For more information, please e-mail Tinne Gilles, SRC Community Partner t.gilles@student.mbs.edu