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Brand coaches help organisations understand the stories that already exist within, make them visible to everybody, and get alignment and agreement on what their core story is.
We assumed that being ‘creative’ was something that teams and organisations wanted to be, but we quickly learned that it wasn’t that straightforward. Here are some thoughts about how people can experience creativity as an inclusive, more gentle force.
Just as conferences moved online, Alex talked with Glenn Wallis at his Success ID Club. She quickly changed her presentation and discusses how leaders can adapt themselves, and help their teams adjust, to the “new normal”.
There’s a basic truth about new strategies: people require space and permission to understand them and their relevance, while they’re under pressure to maintain the day to day business.
Great teams know how to ask the right questions at the right time. So how can we help teams ask better questions?
Provoke, the creative conversation game is ready to play. Our newest workshop uses provocations and challenges in a safe and playful environment to help you get creative as a team, and build practical creative leadership skills.
BBC Radio 4’s Analysis show spends some time looking at Maintenance and interviewed Truth & Spectacle’s, Alex Mecklenburg.
MegaPops are Megan Egan & Poppy Cumming-Spain, a creative team working at Creature London. They’re recent grads of SCA 2.0 and have pretty much launched themselves into the industry on a rocket fuelled with positive energy.
It doesn’t matter whether you design vacuum cleaners or brief in sales videos, every now and then you should ask yourself the question, “Where is the battle scene?”.
🦞Salvador Dali understood the power of a lobster to make a dull telephone absolutely memorable.
Katharina is a Business Psychologist and chatted to Alex about the difference between truth and purpose, the importance of getting your values right from the beginning, the facts about fluffy towels in travel plans, and eye implants.
Silas Amos joins Ivan Pols and Alex Mecklenburg to discuss truth and spectacle in design.
Founded against a belief that creativity and innovation have to be rooted in an organisational truth to be effective, Truth & Spectacle’s mission is to help businesses drive their own creativity, because creativity drives business.
I believe we could do with less narrow minded rhetoric about who owns creativity and concentrate more on how we’re going to create.
Ivan was invited to talk at the Interact UX Conference which was held at The British Museum in October 2018. As the Creative Director of what3words he talked about the design journey, what they’ve learned and how they create a system for everyone to use with voice. You can watch the talk here.
Alex has been hard at work with DotEveryone and London City Hall on their digital leadership programme. She's having a fantastic time working with people who really care about leading with digital understanding and responsibility.
Alex was recently a coach and speaker at PwC's first Female Founders Programme. Partnering with Blooming Founders its designed to help startups scale in the B2B space.
Jonathan McKay joins Ivan Pols and Alex Mecklenburg to discuss how Girl Effect use brands to improve the lives of girls around the world, and the role of truth and spectacle in reaching them.