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Episode #114 Balancing Creativity: How Corporate Teams Are Handling Imagination and Pulling Out Hidden Talent – Dr. Michael Ackerbauer

January 31, 2024

Creativity is now one of the top skills needed in the world and it is imagination that will drive that creativity. Dr. Ackerbauer discusses how creativity development will take shape in this next future of work. From balancing rocks in his free time to cultivating creative thinking in the top teams in corporate, Dr Ackerbauer shares his wisdom on how to foster this innate gift in all of us for this future of work.

 

Michael Ackerbauer is a Business Transformation Leader for IBM Client Engineering. He partners with organizational leaders to humanize their digital transformation. A seasoned innovator and intrapreneur, Michael makes complex leadership concepts easy to understand and simple to apply. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Imagination and a doctorate in Creative Leadership and recently published his first book. Macker is also a certified rock balancer, which is now a TEDx talk.

 

Michael Ackerbauer is a Business Transformation Leader in the IBM Sales Client Engineering organization, where he links business leaders to cloud technology solutions to accelerate their digital transformation. As a seasoned innovator and intrapreneur, Dr. Macker specializes in making complex concepts easy to understand and simple to apply to maximize creative capability. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Imagination and a doctorate in Creative Leadership for Innovation and Change. He recently published his first book, In the Cave of Adullam: Songs of Lockdown – Reflections on the Psalms and Proverbs. Dr. Macker is also a certified rock balancer.

 

To learn more about Michael Ackerbauer, visit:

 

https://ibm.biz/macker-tedx

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXr42uvEEQ&t=300s

To learn more, visit:

https://caffestrategies.com/

 

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