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About
When you embrace creativity in the workplace, you improve individual and group performance while producing better results. Our programs combine skills training with hands on creative experiences to spark a dynamic shift!
You’ll be convinced that creativity is good for business.
We are all creative.
We are all innately creative. And by liberating that creativity in all areas of our lives, including the workplace, we are nurturing and exercising a skill that is available and vital to all of us.
Collaboration over competition.
We believe that there is enough for everyone. That through collaboration we can achieve more. Creative thinking thrives on inspiration and community.
Everyone has good ideas.
Good ideas can come from anyone, at any level of an organization. Providing ways to share and collaborate on good ideas, leads to great ideas and unexpected insights.
Trust the process.
Creativity can be messy. Rather than focusing solely on results, we encourage you to trust the creative process and be willing to use trial and error as a bridge to innovation.
Van Lai-DuMone, Founder & CEO
Bio Highlights
- Pepperdine MBA, 2000
- COO BodyGlove Women’s Activewear
- Regional Manager Washington Post Educational Division: SCORE!
- Certified Kaizen Muse Creativity Coach
- Pepperdine MBA Advisory Board (2008 – 2012)
- HappyCity Vice Chair (2016 – 2017)
Why Creativity?
Companies that actively foster creative thinking outperform their competition in revenue growth, market share, and employee retention. At worksmart, we encourage businesses to cultivate creativity individually and collectively, to drive performance and build a creative culture.
We operate with the understanding that we are all creative. By drawing out creativity in individuals and groups, we can be more engaged and effective at work.
Our training workshops and retreats spark and sustain a creative mindset through interactive exercises paired with creative projects. Use your imagination as a principle way to problem solve, innovate, and collaborate.
I look forward to seeing you and your business thrive through creativity!
-Van
contributing writer for:
Gus Harper, Artist and Facilitator
Alex Oh, Business Development
Meghan Miller, Strategist and Facilitator
Kerry McCarthy, Project Design Advisor
Jason Press, Executive Coach
Melissa Dinwiddie, Innovation Strategist