Organizations that consistently innovate remain relevant and successful over the long term. Yet, innovation often feels elusive, with many leaders and teams struggling to move beyond the status quo. As a professional coach, you have the unique opportunity to guide your executive clients toward creating environments where innovation thrives. Teams are the number one source of innovation, but achieving true creative synergy within teams requires clarity of purpose, effective team dynamics, and a deliberate creative process.
In this interactive, 90-minute virtual workshop based on the Deliberate Creative™ Teams model by Dr. Amy Climer, you will explore the three critical components that foster creativity and innovation within teams: team purpose, team dynamics, and team creative process. Gain practical, research-based tools to help your clients navigate the complexities of innovation more confidently and effectively.
Participants are encouraged to bring their specific coaching challenges related to innovation for live coaching and mentoring opportunities.
This session complements the ICF Wisconsin Chapter Fall Book Club selection: Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results by Dr. Amy Climer. Registration link coming soon for the Book discussion on October 8.
Join us in learning how to deliberately guide your clients towards greater creativity, innovation, and sustained success!
This workshop is aligned with the following ICF Core Competencies:
Cultivates Trust and Safety: Learn how to build psychological safety within teams to encourage open, innovative thinking.
Maintains Presence: Deepen your ability to remain fully conscious and responsive, adapting your coaching style to support leaders as they foster creativity.
Evokes Awareness: Strengthen your skills in asking powerful questions and offering reflective observations to increase team self-awareness and creative problem-solving capabilities.
Facilitates Client Growth: Provide meaningful opportunities for leaders to expand their creative leadership skills, empowering them and their teams toward sustained innovation.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Clearly understand the three essential elements of the Deliberate Creative™ Teams model: team purpose, team dynamics, and team creative process.
2. Identify practical strategies and tools, to address common obstacles to innovation.
3. Increase confidence and competence in coaching executive leaders to intentionally foster innovative environments.
Participants will earn 1 Core Competency and .5 Resource Development CCEs for attending this program.
About our speaker:
Dr. Amy Climer is a thought leader, consultant, and author in innovation and team development. Through her company
Climer Consulting, she works with forward-thinking organizations such as Mayo Clinic, FOX Sports, and the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Climer is the author of the best-selling book
Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results. She holds a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University and a Master’s degree in Experiential Education from University of New Hampshire.. Her
TEDx Talk explains her research and philosophies on innovation. She is the designer of
Climer Cards a creativity and teambuilding tool used by thousands of leaders to deepen conversations and generate ideas.
As a keynote speaker. trainer, and emcee, Dr. Climer was recognized as a Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speakers Association. She is also trained in Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking, the FourSight Thinking System, and Immunity to Change. Dr. Climer’s relentless pursuit of creativity and leadership excellence was recognized in 2016 when she received the Karl Rhonke Creativity Award from the Association for Experiential Education. In 2024 and 2025, CEO Monthly recognized Dr. Climer as the Most Influential CEO of Team Development in the Southeast. Amy lives in Asheville, NC with her wife Julie. Learn more at climerconsulting.com.