Welcome to CreativePivot

Welcome to CreativePivot

CreativePivot combines my early career in the performing arts with business. So, it’s the same skin, different focus. My mission is to build creative mindsets and find new ways to spark creativity in the way we work. Creativity is no longer about overcoming...
Putting people back into transformations

Putting people back into transformations

Transformations need structure as they require putting together a lot of pieces in a puzzle. Currently businesses use a large suite of systems and processes from LEAN, Six Sigma, PIMBOK, Prince 2, PROSCI and Agile and so on, to drive projects and change in an...
Getting everyone to meet at the table

Getting everyone to meet at the table

It was a meeting to negotiate a way forward as partners, in order to provide a more wide-ranging new service solution without loss of reputations or identities. I represented the tender winner and had the responsibility to make the marriage work. Not unlike an...
Blind-sided by short-termism

Blind-sided by short-termism

I find myself at a tipping point. Boards and companies are targeting short-term strategies to silence activist shareholders. Government is discarding policy at the expense of community-will or loudest voice. Not for profit organisations (NFPs) find themselves vying...