Creativity and Leadership

(BUS 17)

Today’s professional and personal challenges demand ever-increasing creativity to achieve major breakthroughs and productive change. While creativity is within everyone, it is often suppressed by hidden blocks and unconscious habits. This course will help you recognize and remove these impediments so that you can access your creativity more consistently and effectively. The approach, taught at the Graduate School of Business for more than two decades, goes deeply into the ideas, introspection, and behaviors that allow you to apply your creativity and be more relaxed, productive, and happy. Further, the course will examine various concepts of leadership, including the critical role of emotional intelligence. Our tools of creativity can build greater insights into our own leadership ability and how it must be (creatively) adapted to match specific challenges. These tools and daily practices will help increase professional effectiveness and improve decision-making, including the successful management of innovation.

Hal Louchheim, Consultant; Business Curriculum Coordinator, Continuing Studies Program

Hal Louchheim works on projects in marketing and education. Previously, he was CEO of Insight Out Collaborations and director of the Sloan Program at the Graduate School of Business. His experience includes advertising, consulting, and operating a ski area in Utah, as well as two startup companies. A graduate of Harvard College, he received an MBA from Stanford.

Julie Daley, Founder, Creative Wellspring

Julie Daley is a professional coach and consultant, with a focus on personal and business creativity, life transition coaching, and women’s leadership development. Daley works with organizations and individuals to catalyze and maximize personal creativity and foster actions that stem from authentic, conscious choice. She has an extensive technology background and received a BS from Stanford in interaction design (an interdisciplinary degree in computer science, psychology, art, and communication).