USA

7th Dimension Thinking
www.7thdimensionthinking.com
Contact: Dr. Patti J. Hamilton
Email: phamltn@bigfoot.com
Phone: 219-322-2390
Fax: 219-322-3519

Seventh Dimension Thinking
Patti Hamilton, Ph.D.
638 Sandi Lane
Schererville, IN 46375-2627
Individual and Business Services. Educational psychologist, creativity consultant, instructional designer. Creative-thinking skills by phone, e-mail, pre- prepared courses, publications and multimedia slideshows.
Alden B. Dow Creativity Center
www.northwood.edu/abd
Contact: Ron Koenig
Email: creativity@northwood.edu
Phone: 517-837-4478
Fax: 517-837-4468

Alden B. Dow Creativity Center
Northwood University
3225 Cook Road
Midland
Michigan 48640-2398
The Alden B. Dow Creativity Center at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan offers two primary programs. The first is an annual International Conference on Creativity in Colleges and Universities offered each July on the Northwood campus and the second is a 10-week summer creativity residency fellowship program, also offered on the Midland campus. For additional information.
Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities
www.cre8ng.com
Contact: Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP
Email: alan@cre8ng.com
Phone: +1-706-353-3387
Fax: +1-706-369-1400

P. O. Box 5805
Athens, Georgia 30604
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP is a workplace consultant and with over 30 years experience using his own creativeness or developing other's. Through Cre8ng People, Places & Possiblities he and his project teams help clients develop Cre8ng Communities in their workplaces. CP3's focus is to help individuals, teams, departments, entire companies develop "Cre8ng Communities" in their workplaces. His company presents programs, keynotes, concurrent workshops and advances (forward moving retreats) to develop creative thinking skills and produce creative ideas for his clients to:

  • solve problems
  • generate new ideas
  • train others in how to generate and facilitate the generation of ideas
  • d) S.P.R.E.A.D. - Support, Promote, Recognize, Encourage, Apply and Develop the creativeness and creative thinking skills of all employees and
  • resolve workplace challenges.

He is a colleague of the Creative Education Foundation and has been a member of the CPSI volunteer leadership since 1980. He is also a Torrance Scholar of Creativity. He is an active member of...

  • National Speakers Association
  • Georgia Speakers Assocation
  • National Storytellers Assocation
  • Southern Order of Storytellers
  • American Creativity Association
  • Innovation Network
  • Murder and Mayhem Writers Group
  • He has awarded the highest earned speaking award by the National Speakers Association and International Federation of Speakers, the CSP-Certified Speaking Professional award

He has written 10 books, including: BROKEN CRAYONS: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines, Ooops!, and 144 Ways to Develop Creativity in Your Life and Workplace. Currently he is writing 3 books: 1) Cre8ng Places - Enriching the Creativity of ALL Employees, 2) DON'T JUST SIT THERE, BE CREATIVE!, 3) Have Balloons, Will Travel: Leading Effective, Fun and Highly Productive Meetings Every Time.

He has a 4 volume series of CREATIVITY CHALLENGES that will be released by February, 2001 that comprise 4 years of his weekly Creativity Challenges that have been sent around the world via the internet to thousands of eager users.

Prior to becoming an independent creative consultant he worked as: a Licensed Architect, Freelance Cartoonist & Writer, College Professor, Graphic Artist, Signage Designer, Interior Designer, and TV News Writer/Editor.

Alan's client project teams are made up of engineers, artists, writers, architects, advertising art directors, marketing research consultants, etc. Each selected depending on the client's needs.

Creative Edge Associates
home.rochester.rr.com/creativeedge
Contact: Lindsay Collier
Email: Innovate@rochester.rr.com
Phone: +1 716-334-4779
Fax: +1 716-334-4779

PO Box 352
West Henrietta, NY 14586
Offerings: Workshops and presentations from Lindsay Collier, former creative thinking expert and futurist at Kodak. Lindsay has a unique combination of techniques from creative thinking, futuring, and organizational behavior and nearly 30 years experience in tapping the best of the creative potential in organizations. He is author of Get Out of Your Thinking Box, The Whack-A-MoleTheory, Organizational Mental Floss>, and Quotations to Tickle Your Brain.
Creative Education Foundation
Contact: Dave Lugo
Email: cefhq@aol.com
Phone: 716 675-3181

1050 Union Rd. # 4
Buffalo, NY
Offering: Training and Consulting in Creative Problem Solving; sponsor of the annual Creative Problem Solving Institutes.
Creative Logic, Inc.
Contact: Mike Docherty
Email: mdocherty@mindspring.com
Phone: 810.380.7999
Fax: 810.380.7969

117 E. Main Street, Suite 203
Northville, MI 48167
Creative Logic, Inc. is a product development consulting organization, specializing in helping companies manage the process of innovation. We understand that for companies to create truly innovative new products, they need processes and organizations in place that support and nurture creativity, while ensuring that products meet customer needs and business realities. We help companies plan and manage their new product development activities for sustained innovation, resulting in market-winning new products.

Creative Logic's Services: Product Development Planning, Product Development Team Leadership & Facilitation, Product Development & Ideation Process Consulting

Creative Think
www.creativethink.com
Contact: Roger von Oech
Email: roger@creativethink.com
Phone: (415) 321 6775
Fax: (415) 321 0609

PO Box 7354
Menlo Park
California 94026
No details supplied
Creative Thinking Association
members.aol.com/vancecta/web/cta.htm
Contact: Mike Vance
Phone: 1-216-243-5576

P.O. Box 308013
Cleveland, Ohio 44130
No details supplied
Earth Celebrations
www.earthcelebrations.com
Contact: Felicia Young
Email: mail@earthcelebrations.com
Phone: (212) 777-7969

Earth Celebrations 638 East 6th Street New York, NY 10009
File creation date: 10-Nov-2000 Earth Celebrations is a non-profit  dedicated to fostering ecological awareness through the arts. Since 1991, Earth Celebrations, as a community-based organization on the Lower East Side of New York City, has been raising awareness about the importance and  need to  preserve the community gardens and the ecological and cultural heritage of the neighborhood through innovative programs such as: theatrical pageants, performances, exhibitions, art.
Facilitation Plus
www.facplus.com
Contact: Peg Kelley
Email: kelley@facplus.com
Phone: 617-926-4845
Fax: 617-923-0960

P.O. Box 1072 Watertown, MA 02471-1072
Facilitation of creative problem-solving sessions with 22 years of expertise in the Synectics methodology. Projects range from new product development to Board retreats for non-profits to small business strategy sessions to consumer groups for more inventive brainstorming. Trainer in facilitation skills, creative thinking, and meeting management. Marketing representative for ThoughtPath Software, a computer-based guide to creative idea generation. Certified mediator.
Gateways
www.GatewaysToCreativity.com
Contact: Barbara Bowen
Email: Bownarro@erols.com
Phone: 718-596-8339

24 3rd St. Brooklyn, NY 11231
GATEWAYS is Consulting for Creative Achievement, based on Jungian psychology and Healing Arts. The method employs universal themes to help clients identify their own unique resistances, to find deeper alignment with creative calling and acceleration toward new goals.
Idea Catalysts, Inc.
Email: naksum@teleport.com
Phone: 503-452-3620
Fax: 503- 452-4007

9005 SW 35th Avenue
Portland, OR 97219
Idea Catalysts is a creative problem solving consulting and seminar company. We provide breakthrough problem solving methods to assist our clients in successfully responding to the business challenges that arise from change.

Idea Catalysts services:

Catalyst Creative Problem Solving Seminars -

  • One and Two Day
  • Custom Designed

Consulting -

  • Problem Solving
  • Collaborative Idea Meetings

Speaking and Presentations -

  • Creative Problem Solving: Finding Opportunities in Change
  • Rapid-Fire Idea Creation
Invention Machine Corporation
Phone: (617) 49 21 303
Fax: (617) 49 28 867

P.O. Box 38-0794
Cambridge MA, 02238
Offers: training course 'Innovative Technology of Design' and complete consulting service on solving client's key problems requiring inventive approach. Both services are based on G. Altshuller's Theory of Inventive Problem Solving introducing domain-independent systematic approach to creative engineering design which has no analogies.
Mega Innovative Mind International Inst.
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Contact: Andrei G. Aleinikov, Phd
Email: Aleini13@aol.com
Phone: 334-262-9562

2125 6th Street Montgomery, AL 36106
Offering consultation services to individuals and businesses. Establishing and nurturing creativity. Teaches how to increase one's creative efficiency up to 1,000,000 times. Publishes articles, books and papers. Titles include: Creation of Grammer; Creating Creative Teachers; Make Your Child a Genius. Teacher and formulator of Creative Metapedagogics.
Michael Michalko
Contact: Michael Michalko
Email: mmichal1@rochester.rr.com
Phone: (719) 293 2957

165 Percy Road
Churchville
New York 14428
Internationally acclaimed creativity expert, trainer, consultant, imagineer and author of Internationally acclaimed creativity expert and author of Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Business Creativity), ThinkPak (A Brainstorming Card Set) and Cracking Creativity (The Secrets of Creative Genius).
National Center for Creativity, Inc. (NCCI)
www.creativesparks.org
Contact: Wes Anderson
Email: NCCI@creativesparks.org
Phone: 317-297-1554 (in USA 800-306-6224)
Fax: 317-387-3387

6845 Parkdale Place Suite A
Indianapolis, Indiana 46254 USA
NCCI is a nonprofit(501.c.3) organization. Our mission is to foster the broad USE of creative thinking throughout the world. Our focus is on application to issues in business, government and education. NCCI provides seminars, conferences, training, resource materials and networking opportunities in the field of creative thinking and innovation. Also, we publish the popular creativity calendar Creative Sparks(tm) and sponsor the program City Lights(tm). ĘCity Lights(tm) recruits and trains adult volunteers to work with children in the inner city on activities to foster teamwork, creativity and problem solving skills(the adults also learn some new skills!).
Richard Saunder's International (Eureka! Mansion)
www.eurekaranch.com
Contact: Doug Hall
Phone: 513 271-9911
Fax: 513 271-9966

Edwards Road
Cincinnatti, Ohio 45244
Offering: Professional Inventing Services. Doug Hall is the author of 'Jump Start Your Brain'
Samovar Consulting
www.samovarconsulting.com
Contact: Gene Quidort
Email: gquidort@samovarconsulting.com
Phone: 607-754-1371
Fax: 607-754-1371

167 Cafferty Lane Endicott, NY 13760
Samovar Consulting specializes in creativity education and problem-solving facilitation. Courses are customized to meet individual and organizational needs. From half-day seminars to week-long team-building retreats we strive to satisfy customer requirements in innovative and effective ways. Sample modules used in the workshops include: Music as Metaphor Visual Connections Maps
Synectics, Inc.
Phone: (617) 868 6530

20 University Road
Cambridge
Massachusetts 02138
Consulting firm whose aim is to help clients generate, develop and implement innovative solutions to key tasks and aid organisational change efforts and provide training.
The Creativity Institute - New York
Contact: Andre de Zanger and Judith Morgan
Email: creativityinstitute@juno.com
Phone: (212) 289-8856

1664 3rd Ave.
New York, NY 10128
Offering: Annual 2 day Creativity Expo; 40+ seminars ranging from 'Corporate Creativity' to the 'Creative Spirit', free monthly symposiums with guest speakers, creative therapy and computer programming.

Products include: THE CREATIVITY MACHINE - contains seven creativity programs which can be used to Enhance Creativity, Stimulate New Ideas, and Solve Problems. It is user friendly and designed for Windows 3.1 or 95


1. PARADIGM SHIFT - trains the mind to see things in more than one way. It uses isomorphic images to induce an "Alpha" state of consciousness.


2. SYMBOLOGY - uses symbols and colors to gain new insights into problems. Choose a symbol and a color for your problem and the computer will generate thousands of possible word associations and answers.


3. METAPHORS - "business is war". Put your problem into this program and it will produce metaphors to stretch your imagination ("Out of the Box thinking").


4. VISUAL IMAGES - put your problem into a visual map and let the images give you the answer. Thousands of "Icons" are available to search out any problem.


5. TRIANGULATION - is a way of gaining new insights into problems by breaking down the elements of the situation and recombining them into new associations.


6. TAO OF CREATIVITY - is a fun, intuitive way of getting answers. Simply pick a number and you will get a poem of ancient wisdom and maybe an answer.


7. QUEST ORGANIZER - helps you keep all the information gained from the above six programs organized. It documents, describes and refines your progress.

The McNellis Company
www.mcnellisco.com
Contact: Jerry McNellis
Email: info@mcnellisco.com
Phone: 1-800-653-0647
Fax: 1-724-847-9275

PO Box 582 New Brighton, PA 15066 USA
The McNellis Company facilitates and trains in Compression Planning Using Storyboards, a process designed to bring out the creativity and energy of people regardless of position in the organization. It drives time out of creative and planning process. Much of the process is based on lateral thinking and other De Bono tenets.
The WASHITO Group/NSA
Contact: Dr. R.D.B.(Ben) Laime (CEO & Chief Kahuna)
Email: BLAIME@aol.com
Phone: (505) 332-4613

9108 Somervell Court
NE. Albuquerque
N.M. 87112-2881
Our effort is to help clients use a wee bit more brain power. We use many different techniques. And clients, including Wal-Mart, have found our efforts pay off.
Thomas Pitre Associates
pitreassociates.com
Contact: Thomas Pitre
Email: tpitre@pitreassociates.com
Phone: 360-683-7699
Fax: 877-530-2863

PO Box 2124
Sequim
WA 98382-2124
On-line training, research, curricula, and instructional design in: business, creativity, knowledge management and design.
VanGundy & Associates
Contact: Arthur B. VanGundy, Ph.D.
Email: avangundy@aol.com
Phone: 405-447-1946
Fax: 405-447-1960
Mobile: 405-630-5774

Arthur B. VanGundy, Ph.D.
428 Laws Drive
Norman, OK 73072-3851
Rec'd 20/Dec/2000 I specialize in designing and facilitating brainstorming retreats, especially in new product development. In addition, I provide training in creative thinking and creative problem solving. I have written ten books on these topics (e.g., Techniques of Structured Problem Solving, Idea Power, Brain Boosters for Business Advantage) and my clients include: Air Canada, BCA Bank Group (Indonesia), Hallmark Cards, Hershey Foods, McNeil Consumer Products, Mexican Advertising Agencies Associations, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Norwegian Management Institute, Rohm & Haas, Turtle Wax, S.C. Johnson Wax, Sunbeam, Singapore Civil Service Institute, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical, and Xerox.
WORDplay & Associates
Contact: Denis R. Berkson
Email: NGPX58B@prodigy.com
Phone: 847-827-9212
Fax: 847-827-6217

2016 Woodview Drive
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Denis R. Berkson, the nationally known 'Creative Crusader' is a recognized consultant and motivational speaker in the area of creative thinking. As president of WORDplay & Associates, a Chicago based company that specializes in team-building, leadership and personal growth, he has presented his seminar and workshop series 'Wild Swings at Creative Things' to thousands of representatives of business and education. Using music, humor and interactive exercises, Denis guides audiences through an entertaining educational journey into the strategies of the creative process. These programs are suitable for groups from 10 to 3,000 participants and range in length from 45 minutes to an entire day

Denis is also the author of 'THE DIFFERENT DRUMMER HANDBOOK, Marching to the Creative Beat.' This book is a creative handbook based on and designed to be used in conjuction with his presentation series.

Winston J. Brill
www.winstonbrill.com
Contact: Winston Brill
Email: wbrill@winstonbrill.com
Phone: 608-231-6766
Fax: 608-231-6794

4134 Cherokee Drive Madison, WI 53711 USA
The web-site offers a subscription to INNOVATIVE LEADER as well as speaking and consulting services--all directed to stimulate creativity and innovation. This site has a number of free offerings that change each month:
* Advice for the Modern Manager
* Human Side Behind an Innovation
* Visual Treats
The site also has an Innovation Quiz and a sample issue of the monthly Innovative Leader.
Wright Results
www.wrightresults.com
Contact: Timothy Wright
Email: wriresults@aol.com
Phone: 516/799-2092
Fax: 516.799-3525

231 N. Maple St. Massapequa, NY 11758
Wright Results simplifies and demonstrates how to use Creative Skills to make the Logic Skills accomplish more. We work with organizations and their teams to improve performance in sales and service. Creatively. Dynamically. Our base process is creativity@work(sm), an exploration and explanation of ways to amplify and implement one's workplace creativity.

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