UNSTUCK YOURSELF

With Creative Coaching.

What is Creative Coaching?

Think of me as your combination creativity guide, teacher, and accountability partner. I leverage a human-centered, design-informed, creative process to guide and support creative professionals, executives, and individuals.

My experience consulting, designing, directing, facilitating and teaching has given me a deep and studied experience with the creative process. I am confident that I can help you through any creative block. No matter who you are, or where you might be on your creative journey I can help you move forward.

Got a million ideas but don’t know where to start?

Want to get better at coming up with new ideas?

Struggling to move from planning into implementation? 

I can get you unstuck.

My basic Coaching Framework consists of four simple principles:

  • Define: where are we going and what are we trying to do?

  • Troubleshoot: what’s the challenge?

  • Ideate: think of ways to address the challenge.

  • Take Action: develop an action plan for immediate steps.

 

Here’s how it works:

It starts with meeting and having a conversation about your goals and challenges.

We will meet weekly, or every other week, to Define, Troubleshoot, Ideate, and Take Action.

We will work one-on-one in a tailored experience to help you through a creative challenge—either professional or personal. It’s not a therapy session, it’s about making progress on creative challenges.

Why hire a Creative Coach?

It is a rare person who finds themselves naturally gifted and inclined in all aspects of a creative endeavor. While we are all working with relatively the same parts, they don’t all work together in the same way for everyone. 

Some people are great at executing other people’s ideas, but find it difficult to develop ideas of their own. 

Some people thrive in ideation but don’t have much to show for all their brilliant ideas.

Some are great planners and movers of people but struggle to see and build better ways of doing things.

Some people get all excited at the beginning of a project and lose interest, looking to whatever’s next.

A coach isn’t a manager. I don’t have a vested interest in a particular creative outcome. I have a vested interest in you as a creative.

My goal is to help you succeed at manifesting a more creative version of yourself. If you feel like you are already highly creative and don’t need or want to develop your practice, by all means, this isn’t for you. If, on the other hand, you find yourself struggling at any point in your creative endeavor a creative coach can help.

 

Who is Creative Coaching for?

Really, Creative Coaching is for anyone who is looking to be more creative or better at it. If that sounds like you awesome. Below are the types of people I typically work with.

 

Professional Creatives

Typically these are designers, illustrators, photographers, videographers, art and creative directors.

Examples of challenges we worked on:

  • Developing a consistent creative practice

  • Moving from an individual contributor to a lead position

  • Creative Burnout

  • Building up ideation skills and practices

  • Staying focused on current creative projects and not jumping to the next one

 

Executives, Leaders & Managers

Leaders are constantly running into creative challenges. Good leaders have high Creative Intelligence.

They are divergent and convergent thinkers, able to think quickly, strategically, and creatively. A lot of leaders are great executors, they get things done. Often this means doing things as they’ve always been done. Sometimes, the same old same old isn’t enough.

Some challenges we’ve worked on:

  • Ideating and planning

  • Building a more creative culture on their team

  • Selling their ideas

 

Creative Enthusiasts

Always wanted to have a creative practice you just didn’t know where to start? Do you have the time and the means to devote energy to building your creative practice from the ground up? Do you want support while you work through establishing your creative practice? Maybe you’re looking to jump from hobbyist to artist. I can help.

The Witz Framework

Prepare

The very beginning of the creative process.

Where do good ideas come from? They come from all around you, if you’re open to them.

 

Play

The secret behind creativity is the freedom and ability to explore new ideas.

How do you go from inspiration to idea? You imagine your way there.

 

Produce

Time to get stuff done.

A good idea is only as good as it is executed.