Coaching & Consulting
Key types of consulting
- Coaching leaders and businesses to do great things in ways that align with their values
- Coaching individual creators to reach their creative potential
Competencies in my backpack
Process engineering, creativity, change management, conflict management, writing & communications, project management, team building, event planning, product development, risk management, publishing
Valutivity LLC's Certifications
- State Corp Comm. LLC-ID: #S305631-6 since 10/06/2009
- Dun & Bradstreet (DUNS): #832359561 since 2009
- Vendor # with e-VA: VS0000054574 since 2009
- Small, Women & Minorities (SWaM) Certification: #682920 since 2009
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September 2-3, 2026
I didn't always have the flexibility or the finances to travel to a lot of conferences. However, it is fairly common for there to be a free or reasonable fee for watching conferences virtually. Here are some pithy quotes I heard at this event:
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From Xander's & my 2015 trip to New Orleans
As the owner of 2 companies— Valutivity for business consulting, The Consulting Arts for the arts—I’m continuously seeking natural intersections between them. Inflection points in learning for one domain can boost them both. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (JazzFest) http://www.nojazzfest.com/ uncovered some of these inflection points for me.
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Since my undergrad days in the '90s, I've been fascinated by mashups. They weren't really called that back then...that term became popularized by the music industry a decade later. Rather, my introduction to the importance of these processes originated with Hungarian American scholar Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He noted that "Creativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains, and fields interact."
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"Social loafing occurs. It occurs, of course, in small group projects and on tug-of-war teams but it also occurs in our friendship groups and in our churches. But before you quickly label those you feel are “users”, “lazy”, “uncommitted”, etc.
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