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Steven Dahlberg
Director, International Centre for Creativity and Imagination
Steven
Dahlberg is director of the Connecticut-based International Centre
for Creativity and Imagination, a firm dedicated to applying
creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations and
communities. Dahlberg has more than 20 years of experience promoting
and teaching creative thinking and problem solving in the United
States, South Africa, Europe and Asia. He collaborates regularly with
artists, scientists, business people, educators, museum professionals,
community leaders and others to help people deliberately unleash and
harness their creative thinking skills. Clients apply their creativity
to engaging people in their community, building partnerships and
teams, integrating creativity into learning, improving innovation,
developing new products, enhancing communications and marketing, doing
creative problem solving, providing professional development, and
linking public art and creativity.
Dahlberg
served as associate director and faculty member in the Creative
Community Building Program at the University of Connecticut, where
he co-developed and taught the "Creativity + Social Change" undergraduate
course. He's served as an
adviser to the Guggenheim Museum's "The Art of Problem
Solving" research project and has also worked with corporations, schools, nonprofits,
government
agencies and communities including Americans for the Arts, Guggenheim Museum,
Danbury Public Schools, HJ Heinz, Seagate Technology, 3M, PDMA,
VNU Business Media, Yahoo-sponsored Creativity and Cognition workshop,
General Mills, Rhode Island College, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism,
Americans for Libraries Council, University of Connecticut, Center for
Learning in Retirement, Creativity Beyond Borders, Hartford Public
Library, WindhamARTS Center, University of St. Thomas, and World Knowledge Forum (South
Korea).
Teaching
Includes:
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University
of Connecticut - Center for Continuing Studies - General
Studies:
Creativity + Social Change
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Quinebaug
Valley Community College - Undergraduate Creativity Course for
Incarcerated Men:
Principles of Problem Solving
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Rhode
Island College - Nonprofit Studies Program
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Saint
Mary's University of Minnesota - Master of Arts in Education
Program:
Creativity
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Saint
Mary's University of Minnesota - Master of Arts in Education
Program:
Applied Creativity: Composing a Purposeful Life
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Saint
Mary's University of Minnesota - Master of Arts in Education
Program:
Unlocking Your Creativity
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Guest
Lectures at Several Universities
Previously,
he
was head of the Creative Education Foundation (CEF), director of CEF's
annual
Creative Problem Solving Institute, program and communications
director of the Institute for Creative Studies, and adviser to two
long-time toy inventors who launched a creativity consulting business. He was program manager and associate editor at
the global publishing company, VNU, where he developed international
training and online learning conferences in the U.S., Europe and
Asia.
 Dahlberg
authored the foreword to Education
is Everybody’s Business: A Wake-Up Call to Advocates of Educational
Change and his articles have appeared in Training magazine,
Knowledge Management News magazine, Global Knowledge Review,
Breakpoint creativity newsletter, and Creative Training
Techniques among others. He has been heard on multiple radio
programs and he edits the ageing
as exile? and Applied
Imagination blogs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in
journalism and bioethics from the University of St. Thomas, and
currently is completing a graduate certificate in gerontology at the
University of Connecticut. Dahlberg was a founding partner in Elder
Care Expos, LLC.
To
Contact:
New Milford, Connecticut, USA
info [at] appliedimagination [dot] org (send)
+1 612 432 5442
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