About Us
Our perpose is to help you wake up to your creative potential
We firmly believe that most of us and by inclination, most of our businesses, are operating sub-par when it comes to creativity.Â
This is not ok! Because there are so many problems to solve, the world needs us all to be operating with all the creative intelligence we can muster.Â
We've made it our mission to work with individuals and organisations offering courses, resources, training and consulting on developing creative thinking and a culture of innovation.
Our Founders
Nina Pearse
LEARNING IMAGINEER, FACILITATOR, AGILE PEOPLE CONSULTANT
Nina Pearse is a dynamic and creative facilitator with a vision to transform business and society by helping people tap into their creativity. Nina has an Honours degree in Business Science from the University of Cape Town and is an adjunct faculty member at GIBS Business School. She is an Agile Talent professional, an associate of the NeuroLeadership Institute and a qualified Insights facilitator. Nina has worked in learning and change related roles for nearly twenty years as a management consultant, human resources specialist and leadership practitioner. She has delivered training on five continents over the past two decades.
Celia Falkenberg
ARCHITECT, ENTREPRENEUR, CREATIVE THINKING EDUCATOR
Celia Falkenberg is a creative educator with a passion to inspire and equip people to find creative solutions to challenges and opportunities in business and everyday life. Celia is a professional architect and an adjunct faculty member at GIBS Business School. She has an Honours degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town and graduated with distinction for a Master's degree in Housing and Urbanisation from the Architectural Association in London. She owned and ran an architectural practice for fifteen years. She uses her experience as an architect and business owner to design and facilitate creative learning.
Meet our extended team
Hanne Kristiansen
CORPORATE INNOVATOR, FOUNDER OF CREATIVE ID
For over 25 years, Hanne has worked with global companies in the US, the UK as well as across Europe. She spent the first half of her career working in marketing and innovation for three multi-nationals: United Biscuits, Diageo and latterly Kellogg’s where she was Head of European Innovation. She’s the founder of Creative Creatures, the company behind the Creative ID™ framework, and has since 2008 worked with the University of Sheffield to create a deep research-based understanding of people-led creativity in the corporate world. Our clients have benefited enormously from the Creative ID™ framework. Hanne co-facilitates some of our advanced programmes.
Amy Quiding
FINANCIAL MANAGER, COURSE COMPLETION SUPERVISOR
Amy is a detailed-orientated accounting manager with over thirty years of experience in start-ups and small businesses across a number of sectors. She graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BCom in Accounting & Statistics. Amy loves people and assists us, not only with our finances, but as a student liaison officer with our online clients, ensuring that they receive regular checkins and are well-supported as they complete their courses.Â
Nicole RamjeeÂ
FOUNDING DIRECTOR, HR SYNTHESIS, STRATEGY & HR EXPERT, COACH
Nicole has over 20 years’ experience in the HR field. She is passionate about developing people and growing business. As an entrepreneur, Nicole understands the challenges of growing a business whilst working in the business. She has successfully merged her Leadership, Entrepreneurial, Compliance & Governance, Coaching and HR skills to mould and mentor entrepreneurs through business coaching and set them up for success. We are fortunate to have Nicole in our team to assist some of our clients with coaching and facilitation.
Vaughan Wickins
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,NON-EXEC DIRECTOR, COACH
Vaughan is a business development executive, with broad leadership, strategic, operational, management and finance skills. He has diverse sector and operational experience having worked for a top international accounting firm - Deloitte, an investment bank, a global trading company, as EMEA COO of an international charity and also a debt collection and liquidation company. Vaughan is a qualified coach, trained by Neuroleadership Institute. He uses his brain-based coaching methods to help our clients grow high performance teams and a healthy organisation culture.Â
Our partners
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
GIBS is Africa’s leading Business School. Nina Pearse and Celia Falkenberg are adjunct faculty members at GIBS. They have created an Online Masterclasses, Creativity for Business, which is hosted and accredited by GIBS. The course is further accredited by The Financial Planning Institute. Leverage your creative intelligence to get unstuck and become a more agile, resilient and inventive thinker with this powerful course.
Creative ID
The Creative ID is powerful tool that shows how (rather than if) you are creative. It is a visual and memorable way of identifying your creative strengths and weaknesses across five core creative thinking styles. It was created by a European innovation leader partnering with specialists at the University of Sheffield. We love working with this tool and have been impressed by how simple and how powerful it is in building creative confidence and helping teams move to a more creative and innovative culture.
HR SynthesisÂ
HR Synthesis is a full service HR consultancy with a passion for growing people and business. They journey with their clients as they navigate through the rapidly changing business landscape.
We are excited to partner with the dynamic team at HR Synthesis on an upcoming project.
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Biggerplate
Biggerplate is the global home of mind mapping templates, tutorials, and training. Biggerplate is the global home of mind mapping with over 160,000 registered members contributing and using over 17,000 mind maps for business, education and more. Biggerplate.com operates around the world, and is based in London, UK.
The team at Biggerplate is smart, friendly, down-to-earth and a pleasure to work with.
Grayfeather Consulting
Grayfeather Consulting is a consultancy and professional services company focussing on delivering Organisational Design (OD) services that enable organisations to thrive and survive in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
We are impressed by the strategic thinking and future-focussed vision at Grayfeather and love working with them.
Where to start?
If you're new to Creativity Wake-Up, here are some great places to start:
- Find out what we think about in our Blog
- Take our quiz to find out what could be killing your creativity
- See our recommended videos on YouTube
- Start reading about your creative capacity:Â recommended books here
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What's next?
Join our community!
Thank you for taking the time to learn about us. We'd love to get to know you.
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Why should we all use our creative power...? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
