Speakers
Charles Landry, Urban Consultant
Landry is recognized as an international authority on creativity and cities’ futures. Through his company, Comedia, established in 1978, he has assisted dozens of countries, from the wealthy to the underdeveloped, in balancing the concerns of urban development with tradition, culture, and creativity. His focus is on finding ways for culture to invigorate and enhance economies. Landry works closely with local leaders to inspire, facilitate, and stimulate ideas that transform cities. He has found original solutions to seemingly intractable urban problems such as marrying innovation and tradition, balancing wealth creation and social cohesiveness, and preserving local character while focusing on a global orientation.
Crispin Raymond, Creative Tourism Consultant
Raymond has a 25 year background in the arts, first as chief executive of the Theater Royal in Bath, England, and subsequently as the founder and leader of a consulting firm specializing in policy, management, building, and funding issues for charitable and arts organizations. Raymond and Greg Richards coined the term “creative tourism” and launched Creative Tourism New Zealand in 2003.
Greg Richards, Tourism Consultant
A partner in the company Tourism Research and Marketing, Richards has worked with many governments. He has extensive experience in tourism research and has held positions at universities in Spain, the Netherlands, and England. He is also the author of well-known publications on creative and cultural tourism and is a co-founder of Creative Tourism New Zealand along with Crispin Raymond. As a European executive member of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS), he has directed projects on topics including cultural tourism, crafts tourism, sustainable tourism, tourism education, and labor mobility in the tourism industry. He has worked extensively on developing creative tourism in Barcelona and Burgos, Spain; Manchester, Newcastle, London, and Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Bosch, Netherlands; Sibiu, Romania; Amman, Jordan; and Macao, China. He is currently working with the Dutch city of Den Bosch to develop a series of events celebrating the 500th anniversary of painter Heironymus Bosch.
Hayes Lewis, Center for Life Long Education, Institute of American Indian Arts
Hayes Lewis is the Director of the Center for Lifelong Education (CLE) at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Zuni Pueblo tribal member. The Center for
Lifelong Education (CLE) is the newest organizational development within
IAIA and represents the tribal outreach, technical services, extended
education and cultural exchange component of the institute. The CLE provides
a multi-faceted range of high quality outreach education, training,
technical assistance and capacity development opportunities for Indigenous
people and tribes. Organizational & programming priorities designed to
strengthen IAIA-CLE services include: educational extension and tribal
outreach, partnership development, international cultural exchanges and
collaboration with the Center for Arts and Cultural Studies (CACS) and the
IAIA Museum to sponsor exceptional learning opportunities for the students
and community.
Jay Walljasper, Writer, Editor, Consultant, Speaker
Walljasper is presently a contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler magazine, as well as the executive editor of Ode, a magazine about news and culture published in the Netherlands, and a senior fellow at New York’s Project for Public Spaces. Previously, he held editorial positions for Utne and Utne Reader. He has contributed stories to important publications all over the world and has written and edited several books, most recently, The Great Neighborhood Book, a guide to fixing broken neighborhoods and how citizens can save the world on their own block. Walljasper focuses on urban issues, searching for inspiring developments and ideas around the world.
Eric Maisel, Creative Coach and Author
Maisel has been coaching performing and creative artists for more than twenty years. He trains other creative coaches and has written more than thirty books, including Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, A Writer’s Paris, A Writer’s San Francisco, The Van Gogh Blues, The Creativity Book, Performance Anxiety, Ten Zen Seconds, and others. He has also written for many magazines and is a well-known speaker on creativity issues and coaching. He holds masters degrees in counseling and creative writing and a doctorate in counseling psychology.
Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., Author
Alex Pattakos, Ph.D., affectionately nicknamed "Dr. Meaning," is the founder of the Center for Meaning and author of the international best-selling book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work (www.prisonersofourthoughts.com).
He is a former therapist and mental health administrator, political campaign organizer, and full-time university professor (and graduate program head) of public and business administration. He has worked closely with several Presidential administrations on social and economic policy matters, and served as an adviser to the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Pattakos was also one of the initial faculty evaluators for the Innovations In American Government Awards Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and has been a faculty member at The Brookings Institution. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed political science and public administration literatures, and is the co-author of the book, From Nation to States: The Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program, published by the State University of New York (SUNY Press). A former member of the elected National Council of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Alex also is a past president of Renaissance Business Associates (RBA), an international, nonprofit association of people committed to elevating the human spirit in the workplace. During his tenure as President, RBA was active in Australia, Canada, Europe, Nigeria, South Africa, and the USA. Dr. Pattakos understands the challenges facing people in today's uncertain times. Through his work with Fortune 500 companies, public and nonprofit organizations, and university teaching, Alex has helped people at all levels and in all walks of life build their capacities for personal and organizational transformation. Moreover, as a principal of The Innovation Group (www.seedsofinnovation.com), he consults internationally with individuals, teams, and organizations in all sectors and industries with an explicit focus on designing innovation systems, processes, products, and policies that make a positive difference and that are truly "meaningful."
Rebecca Anderson, Executive Director of HandMade in America
HandMade in America is a pioneering organization located in Ashville, North Carolina. It promotes economic development, sustainability, and heritage tourism through its support for handmade objects. As executive director, Anderson oversees operations that involve 3,000 citizens and 20 regional partnerships. She also serves as a consultant for cultural and economic development programs related to crafts. Previously, she was director of economic development for the Ashville Chamber of Commerce. She has held several positions in community and economic development and helped establish the first federal day care program in the region. She was named one of “America’s Top Twenty Visionaries” by U.S. News and World Report in 1999.
Geoffrey Godbey, Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Godbey is the president of Next Consulting, a company dedicated to the re-positioning of leisure and tourism services for the future, and Professor Emeritus in the department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Management at Pennsylvania State University. He has written 10 books and more than 100 articles about leisure, time use, work, aging, recreation, health, parks, and the future. He is past president of the Academy of Leisure Sciences. He has also appeared on television and has written for a number of popular magazines. He has done research and consulting for many clients, including AARP, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of Interior, the government of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the National Recreation Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. He has advised numerous advertising agencies and recreation, park, and tourism organizations. A frequent speaker, Godbey has given presentations in twenty- four countries.
Robert McNulty, Founder and President of Partners for Livable Communities
Partners for Livable Communities, a twenty-year-old non-profit organization, is a national leader on issues of livability in American cities. Partners utilizes a number of pathways—advocacy, information, leadership, and guidance—to help communities solve their problems. As the founder and head of the organization, McNulty is known for his ability to forge effective public-private partnerships that can transform cities. Prior to founding Partners, McNulty had a distinguished career in federal agencies and as a professor at the Columbia University School of Architecture. He is a frequent writer, editor, and lecturer on urban issues. He holds an undergraduate degree in business, a law degree, and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
L. Kelley Lindquist, President, Artspace Projects
Artspace, a non-profit organization, is the nation’s leader in developing space for artists. Under Lindquist’s leadership, Artspace has completed 18 major projects with a total value of more than $175 million. This includes 14 live/work projects with more than 560 units. Artspace has won numerous awards, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Honor Award for contributing to the revitalization of inner-city communities. The St. Paul Company’s Leadership in Neighborhoods Award allowed him to study government supported housing for artists in Great Britain, Austria, Germany, and the former Soviet Union. He is in demand as a speaker and consultant and increasingly focuses on larger issues concerning the role of arts in American society.
Jack Loeffler, Historian, Writer, Radio Producer, and Sound Collage Artist
Loeffler has produced nearly 300 radio programs, including the thirteen part series, The Spirit of Place and the 6 part series, Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West. His books include Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, La Musica de los Veijitos: The Hispanic Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte, and Interviews with Iconoclasts. He is currently on a 4 year grant from the Ford Foundation to document the relationships of indigenous cultures to their habitats, a project that will result in a radio series and a book. Loeffler is an advocate of grass roots activism in reshaping communities’ futures.