Leading Creative Organizations: Unleashing the creative potential within your organization

Developing leadership capacity is vitally important to the health and sustainability of our organizations and our community. Now more than ever, we need innovative leaders who can respond creatively to the complex challenges we face.

This OCRI event will bring together representatives from Ottawa's government, business and education sectors to explore leadership in creative and innovative organizations. Participants at the conference will hear from a noted international speaker and have the opportunity to discuss practical ways to enhance the creative capacities of their respective organizations.

Keynote speaker at the conference will be the internationally renowned Sir Ken Robinson. Named one of the world's Principal Voices by Time Magazine, Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized expert in the field of creativity and innovation in business and education. The key to a healthy future for all organizations lies in learning how to unlock their creativity and to sustain innovation in a long term systematic way. He also identifies the major myths about creativity that hold organizations back, and details the proven strategies for innovation that drive the great ones forward.