Creative Leadership is about a “people-centric” leadership model, focused on:

• Hiring the right people

• Having diverse points of view on the team

• Creating a safe environment to take risks and fail

• Having facilitative leadership skills to maximize team effectiveness

• Ability to create a compelling invitation for people to engage

• Ability to identify individual skills and ability needed by the team…and to attract them

• Willingness to step outside the box and try things that you haven’t done before

• Ability to attract and relate to a diverse group of team members

• Ability to recognize conflict and to access it as a source of creativity

• Ability to direct people whose skills and interests vary widely from your own

• Ability to recognize your own weaknesses and supplement them with the skills of others

• Ability to motivate and develop others