Maggie is a facilitator and a trainer; her specialty is designing and facilitating events that provoke innovation: creativity workshops, leadership development programs, and helping scientists develop more innovative research proposals. She’s part of the facilitation team at Knowinnovation (KI), and head of its newest division, Inclusive Innovation, which uses the same methodology to activate innovation within the field of economic development.  

Maggie has been deeply involved in developing, designing and facilitating the Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP) and a similar program in Southeast Asia, the ASEAN-SLP, to inspire early- and mid-career scientists to explore and re-define what it means to be a science leader within their departments, their institutions, their countries and regions, and in fact, worldwide.

Maggie is a member of the community of practitioners that grew out of the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) in Buffalo, NY, in the USA. She received the CEF’s Distinguished Leader Award and has been a leader/presenter at creativity conferences worldwide, including the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in the United States, the European Creativity Association conference (CREA) in Italy, European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), the South African Creativity Conference, Creativity Istanbul, and Mindcamp in Toronto, Canada.

http://knowinnovation.com/inclusive-innovation

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