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Supported by the IAA, the global scholarship competition was founded by The Berlin School of Creative Leadership’s President Michael Conrad and his wife, Helga, to further the development of women in leadership positions and advocate for greater diversity within the creative industries. Open to all female IAA members working in creative leadership roles as well as female leaders nominated by any member of the IAA, the full-tuition scholarship received entries from across the world.

Steve Keller to Receive Full-Tuition Scholarship to Attend the Berlin School Global Executive MBA Program.

The state of creativity is changing and this comes as no surprise. Creative industries are undergoing a massive changes at the moment at an unprecedented pace, with consumers at the core. Creativity today is no longer just a craft it is a means to orchestrating new constellations of value in a business, design, and social sense.

Spanish article in the October 2015 issue of Insights Magazine about a keynote presentation on the reinvention of creative teams and collaboration by Jamshid Alamuti and David Slocum.

Leading Creative People is designed around the two central themes of ‘emotional intelligence’ and communication skills. For leaders, having emotional intelligence is essential for success. After all, who is more likely to succeed – a leader who shouts at his team when he's under stress, or a leader who stays in control, and calmly assesses the situations? The more that you, as a leader, manage each of these areas - typically the higher your emotional intelligence.

An Article by Berlin School Managing Director Jamshid Alamuti translated into Spanish and published in Insights Magazine (Ecuador).

Michael Conrad, President of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, visited the MCAD Creative School in Munich and presented his legendary “7+ To Heaven” theory for rating creative work. The presentation offered by Michael was spiced up with the broadcasting of a song he created years ago to motivate and inspire his Burnett fellows to use and practice the 7+ system.

To speak of a creative leader, or manager, is for some a paradox: creativity is chaotic and unrestrained while leadership is orderly and controlling, and setting the two together makes for an uneasy, potentially volatile combination.

A guest post on Forbes written by Nathan Deardorff on the Future of Education Technology. From his perspective by the year 2050 higher education will be transformed by three trends: automation, curation, and gamification.