FountainBlue's Leadership, Creativity and Diversity Workshops provide today's decision-makers and their teams with the leadership edge and empowers them to strategically achieve measurable results. Our monthly three-hour workshops is focused specifically on developing and nurturing the critical leadership, diversity and creativity skills in ourselves and in those we live and work with and on creating a support network of like-minded decision-makers engaged in similar pursuits of business excellence. It is our hope that the decision-makers in attendance will become empowered to integrate the information and knowledge and positively impact their teams and organizations to achieve business results and personal satisfaction.
Our six-month Leadership series of workshops include:
Embracing Your Personal Brand of Leadership
Expanding Your Communication Style
Leading with Power, Influence and Integrity
Effective Decision-Making and Follow-Through
Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Leadership
Getting to and Staying at the Top of Your Game
Our two month Creativity series of workshops include:
Awaken Your Intuition
Welcoming Creativity in Others
Balancing the Creative and the Practical
A typical agenda is available below for your reference.
8:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking 9:00 Welcomes and Thank Yous and Introductions around the room 9:10 Introduction of the Speaker, Workshop Objectives, Interactive Exercises 10:15 Break 10:30 Additional Questions Submitted from the Audience, Additional Exercises or Break-outs in groups 11:25 Workshop Debrief and Final Remarks 11:30 Thank Yous and Meeting Adjourned
We are grateful for the ongoing support of DLA Piper, who has supported this series from January through August 2007. We encourage you to consider their services at http://www.dlapiper.com.
Thank you also to our sponsors at Liberty Benefit Insurance Services, who adopted the series starting in September 2007. Our events are now held at Bay Cafe Clubhouse, 1875 Embarcadero in Palo Alto from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. on the second Fridays of the month.
Our September 14 Workshop Topic: Infusing Creativity and Humor in the Workplace, with Kathy Klotz-Guest, founder, Powerfully Funny
A couple of months ago, we launched our creativity series on the topic of 'Awaken Your Intuition', which opened up our thinking about the importance of creativity at work. We then followed up with a conversation on 'Welcoming Creativity Into Our Lives', which helped us move from the creative to the practical. To round out our three-month creativity series, we will focus this month's workshop on 'Infusing Creativity and Humor in the Workplace'.
The work-life question is ever-prevalent, particularly in the Silicon Valley. Many people who stay in the valley enjoy working hard and playing hard, welcoming opportunities to balance the two. But do we need to delineate the intense, results-oriented side of us from the more care-free, fun-loving side of us? Can we balance the two, and if so, what is the business and personal value of doing so?
In this interactive, fun-filled workshop, we will investigate these questions and more, and in the end find that it's not an either-or proposition! Come prepared not just to have a good time, but to think critically about how your natural creativity and sense of humor, and that of your peers and partners, and how infusing that creativity and humor into the workplace will bring sustainable results for the bottom line.About the Speaker
Kathy Klotz-Guest is the founder of Powerfully Funny, a creative marketing firm that helps clients "stand out" from the pack. She also helps organizations leverage creativity and humor internally to improve innovation. A marketing executive with over 16 years of experience, she has managed development teams, launched products, and driven product messaging for companies including SGI, Gartner, MediaMetrix, Excite@Home, and Dow Jones to name a few. Kathy has also performed improvisation for years, and believes humor and fun are key ingredients for creativity. She has an MA and an MBA in marketing from UC Berkeley, and is a founding board member for the Society for New Communications Research,
a think tank on best practices in social media. She writes and speaks extensively on the fun-creativity-innovation connection.
See below for a list of program topics and facilitators for 2007. Register for any upcoming program by visiting
