RAJAH, KANES

BSc., MSc., PhD. Kanes Rajah is Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Greenwich. This Centre is unique, it champions creativity and leadership in entrepreneurship and this is seen in all their work. He has extensive management and business experience, having spent 25 years in international senior marketing management, commodity training and is President of his own management consultancy, Klondyke Management Consultants. Kanes is an eclectic professional. He is a writer and broadcaster and regularly publishes scholarly work in science, technology and business. He is certificated in the use of psychometric instruments and is an active researcher and practitioner of Kirton's Adaptor-Innovator inventory which he uses extensively in his classes and on his SME as well as corporate client groups in the UK and overseas. He is founder member of the Business Creativity Network, the Aberystwyth Creativity Laboratory and The Creativity Unleashed Consortium.

REIN, ROSEMARY

The Former Director of Training for one the largest financial institutions in the United States, Rosemary packed up her bags 12 years ago and set forth on a Creative Life Safari to live and work in Tropical Costa Rica. In her own “Romancing the Stone Learning Adventure” Rosemary has experienced evacuation from volcano eruptions, mudslides and tornados. She also lived to tell about it in “Go Wild! Survival Skills for Business and Life” where she details how the same principles needed to survive in the jungle and emergency situations are the same skills needed to survive and thrive in both business and life. In her latest book “Blueprint for Success” with Co-Authors, Dr. Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard, Rosemary gives best practices for Going Wild! Going GREAT in the Journey from Now to WOW!. Dr. Rein speaks over 100 days a year internationally on Leadership, Creativity, Customer Service and Team Building.

She is an Adjunct Faculty Member of Park and Rockhurst University and has delivered programs at the Atlanta Creativity Exchange and the International Conference of the Creative Problem Solving Institute. Rosemary is the founder of Costa Rica Learning Adventures, and Business Meetings Costa Rica where she also hosts personal and business retreats to get people out of their “bored rooms”. A Community Advocate in Latin America, Rosemary developed and taught a cooking and art class curriculum for sexually abused girls to improve self-esteem and communications skills and is a principle fundraiser for Youth Scholarship in Costa Rica and SASY! Stop Animal Suffering Yes! rosemary@gowildgogreat.com.

RUTHERFORD, RACHé

Rachè has been involved in identifying and developing creative behaviour as part of the Kobus Neethling Group for more than 10 years. She is also director of Solutionsfinding, which focuses on the distribution and management of instruments developed by the Kobus Neethling Group. She is involved in the development of creativity programmes in various South African and overseas Companies, (such as Anglo Platinum, Citadel, Sanlam, Sasol, SAAF), schools and other institutions. Rachè is also the co-author of more than 40 books, including the best sellers which she co-authored with Dr Kobus Neethling.: Am I clever or am I stupid?; Creative people can perform miracles; Smart Parents, Courage; Whole-Brain Sexuality, Think like Jesus and Feel Like Jesus and Talk to your Food. She has appeared on several TV and radio programmes as a creativity expert and writes regular magazine articles on creativity.

SCHOONWINKEL, LIESL

EBA (Hon); Higher Education Dipl. At present training and talks on creativity and wholebrain thinking to schools, community groups, public organisations and private companies through the Kobus Neethling Group. As Programme Manager for Student Support at a college, Liesl utilizes the four-quadrant Neethling Brain Instrument for career guidance and train students in creative thinking as part of lifeskills.

Her involvement with learnerships and skills training at the college has lead her to believe that mentorship in the workplace is South Africa's answer to up-skilling and uplifting all economic role-players. Establishing company to do mentorship training.

VAN STADEN, CHRISTO

A few times in my life I have come across something – sometimes a book, sometimes a technique, sometimes an insight – that made me shiver with excitement because it was so right ... such a natural progression of where my creative impulses have been going. Such an event was meeting Biodanza. For me Biodanza is liberation through movement – liberation from past and future so that I can exist in the present, liberation from presumptions and assumptions so that the truth of being can shine, so that I can assume utter responsibility for my life. I dance with the children of my daughter's school (about 30 three-to-five year olds) – they are real teachers! I have seen in this group how quickly Biodanza can transform relative chaos (including apathy, apprehension, fear) into a cooperative organism. (I have seen great forces of chaos at work!) I am working with a team of friends (Annalie, Leon, Willem, Suzan, Tahnia, Kate) towards a comprehensive corporate Biodanza offering, aimed at integrating and developing organisations through movement. Our vision is encapsulated in the words of Rumi: "Let the beauty we love be what we do".

VARDIS, HARRY

Harry is the founder of Creative Focus Inc., a qualitative research company, and The Innovative Leader Workshops, a program designed for the changing needs of today’s managers.  He is skilled in creative problem solving with more than 25 years of experience as Director of Research and Strategic Planning in marketing communications, and new product positioning.

Harry is a lecturer at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, The Michael J. Coles College of business at Kennesaw State University, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Novartis University and Anahuac University in Mexico City.  He is a member of QRCA, AMA, and The Creative Education Foundation.  He has created the Innovative Leader Workshops Program which has been delivered numerous times in Universities and corporate training programs.

The program has been written in The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, Biz Ed magazine and other publications.

Recently, Harry was named the Director of The Creativity and Innovation Center at Kennesaw State University. A program designed to introduce creativity and innovation in business as a competitive advantage.

He has authored and published various articles which can be viewed at the Creative Focus, Inc. website www.creativefocus.net

Harry holds a degree in Education and in Industrial Organizational Psychology.

He is the author of the book: Potatoes? Not yet! 33 ways to grow and harvest your best ideas

WALL, KEN

Ken Wall is well-known as an international presenter, a most perceptive consultant and coach, a leader in his field and engaging facilitator - presenting, writing and speaking with clarity and persuasive impact. Ken holds qualifications in Engineering, followed by a second degree in Industrial Psychology and Economics. Together with some involvement in theatre work, these attributes combine to earn him an enviable reputation amongst both clients and colleagues. Others describe his style as "fun", "practical" and "great for learning". Ken is also a prolific developer of innovative programs, many of which are currently used by leading multinational organisations. Ken Wall is CEO of the Thinking Network, an internatioal organisation specialising in the areas of communication, personal creativity and business innovation based in Australia. Thinking NetworkTM programs are well-known and used by many other consultants and facilitators and in-house learning and development managers.

WENGER, SUSAN

Susan is retired from the US Government Civil Service. She has taught Philosophy in Junior College, and English and Journalism in High School. Susan enjoys humour, puzzles and wordplay. She is a member of Mensa and Intertal and is the Coordinator for Mensa's Patrick O'Brian Special Interest Group. Susan is the author of The Port-Wine Sea (a parody of Patrick O'Brian's novels) and co-author of Your Limitless Inventing Machine. She has taught workshops at The Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, New York and in San Diego, California, at the Houston Creativity Conference, at the North East Popular Culture Association, in Northern Ireland, and at the International Creativity Conference in Africa. Her newest book is about creating and raising geniuses.

WENGER, WIN

Win Wenger, Ph.D, is a pioneer in the fields of creativity and creative method, accelerated learning, brain and mind development, and political economy. Formerly a college teacher, Dr Wenger is a trainer renowned around the world, and the author of 48 books, including his latest breakthrough text of techniques to facilitate scientific discovery and technical invention, Discovering the Obvious. His main text of education-related and growth techniques is Beyond Teaching and Learning and his most widely popular work, The Einstein Factor co-authored with Richard Poe, is available in good bookstores near you. Another great work by Win is How to increase your Intelligence. Synopsis of his work, and special articles on it, have frequently appeared in Success Magazine, one of the world's leading entrepreneurial monthlies. 'From Image-Streaming on down – Win Winger has been and is a massively influential character in the world of personal and professional development. His work, usually unattributed, has influenced the whole field of personal development. He's cool!" (Michael Breen, MBNLP.com.) Win Wenger has also founded a unique non-profit organisation titled Project Renaissance. This organisation is dedicated to increasing individuals' potential and accelerating the dawning of a new Renaissance.

WISEMAN, EDWARD

Edward E Wiseman, President of the American Institute of Management and International Training brings over 25 years experience to his worldwide clients. He has been a forerunner leading companies to achieve their full potential through the application of Creativity to their human systems. He is one of the most sought after management, organisational and human development resources in the world today. Ed has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of venues in North America, Central America, South America and Africa. He has been on the faculty of New York University at Buffalo for 30 years at their annual Creative Problem Solving Institute. This is a large international conference of over 1000 people, that hosts up to 40 countries each year and is considered "the" conference on Creativity and Innovation. Ed has appeared on national television in South Africa and was a major presenter on a mini series on Creative Parenting. He has also been a key note and session presenter at the Annual International Creativity Conference in Africa since 1994.

WOLFE, OLWEN

Olwen has thirty years of international experience in creative thinking applied to all areas of organizations. She co-founded Worlding, an intercultural strategic consultancy based in Paris, see www.worlding.com. Worlding combines Creative Problem Solving with personal and organizational development methods to create innovative cultures.
Olwen is bicultural and bilingual, American and French. She is a certifi ed Clinical Psychologist and has a Masters degree in Economics. She is also a certifi ed MBTI and NBI practitioner. Olwen is a frequent leader at conferences such as CPSI (USA), CREA (Italy), ACRE (South Africa) and Créa-Université (France). She is one of the founders of Créa-Université’s training program. Olwen facilitates several worldwide networks of creative thinking specialists.