Inspiring Creativity Using Your Character Strengths
Frank Sinatra famously crooned, “I did it my way!” Let’s use his words as inspiration and figure out how to use signature character strengths. Using our unique strengths has shown to increase our engagement 6x and our likelihood of flourishing goes up 9x. No matter what our character strengths are, we need to show up authentically to lead others and inspire creativity, both ours and theirs.
Prework: take the free assessment on character strengths at www.viacharacter.org and bring your results to the session.
The takeaways:
- Learn to create and lead from a place of authenticity
- Cultivate strengths in yourself and others for better creative outcomes and increased impact
- Apply your character strengths to creatively solving your business challenges
Megan’s Bio
Megan is an award-winning innovator. She is a dynamic speaker, consultant, facilitator, coach and author with over 25 years of experience in innovation, leadership and change management. She is the founding partner of Mitchell Consulting. She serves as the Program Director for the Centre of Excellence in Innovation Leadership at the Schulich ExecEd, an extension of the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Toronto, Canada. Megan is an expert in facilitating large-scale innovation teams, design thinking and building a climate that supports creativity and innovation.
Megan is keenly interested in what helps people thrive in organizations. She graduated with distinction in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London. She is a former Director of Innovation and Leadership Development with Johnson & Johnson Inc. Megan is a co-author with Marilyn Blocker and Andrea Zintz of the 2018 book, Orchestrating Sustainable Innovation.