What makes us human? More than our ability to reason, it’s our unique capacity to think both logically and poetically. In this session, you’ll hear about the science of the mind while experiencing first-hand how imagination fuels creativity and innovation.

During this session, you will:

✔️ Explore your own imagination and where you are on the imagination spectrum
✔️ Understand your personal relationship with the “blank page”
✔️ Discover where your natural creativity comes from and how to prompt it

You might even reveal your own poetic insights and decide to develop an intentional creative practice! Come with an open mind and be prepared to hear a different take on creativity.

About the Speaker

Following a 25+ year career as an HR Director in engineering, science and educational sectors Kate established her own business, Next Step HR – balancing her Creative Executive Coaching Practice with her passion for Poetry in the Workplace. Kate is a scientist (PHD in Biological Sciences at Manchester University having discovered a new species of filmy fern) and poet (having published her first collection Un/Broken having discovered she was neurodivergent) reconciled. She is a sought-after Neurodiversity Coach and Spoken Word artist, TEDx speaker, and founder of the groundbreaking Poetry in Business Conference. Her poetry, shaped by neurodivergence and aphantasia, appears in numerous publications and blends creativity with leadership, giving voice to ideas that create human centric and innovative strategic thinking in a world of AI.