Creativity changes the world. Creativity changes your world.*

Workshops • Individual Coaching • Consulting

Creative thinking for critical thinkers

My name is Alex Leviton. I’m an author and journalist (30 books and counting) with a background in:

  • Journalism and information

  • Leadership and management

  • Improv and standup comedy

  • Teaching and trauma-informed arts therapy

Along the way, I’ve developed a superpower: helping others find insight through their own creativity. So far, I have a 100% success rate in helping people identify at least one life-/career-changing insight into how their creativity best operates.

Who you are Organizations and teams working in policy, science, media, tech or related fields, or individual people who blend creative with critical thinking of any kind in their work or lives.

The world-changing change you want You know that kinda magical feeling you get when the creative recesses of your brain fire all its cylinders? Yeah, that. Now, imagine if your entire team got to feel that feeling — together, with differences and uniqueness encouraged and even celebrated — and learn how to easily access it for the rest of their lives. Yep, that.

Warning!

Please be aware: Getting in touch with your creativity – and exercising your creative thinking skills – on the third layer can lead to better problem-solving and more innovative solutions, deeper empathy and collaboration, more joy and happiness, and even a renewed sense of purpose.

Some folks I’ve had the pleasure to consult for, teach, or work with:

“Alex’s prompts and exercises helped me un-block in a way I never would have expected, and they are simple and universal enough that I’m convinced they would be useful to anyone ... I have been writing and creating much more regularly since.”
— Kate Catherall - Founder and Principal of Slow Clap, LLC

Services for organizations and individuals

  • Coaching

    For Individuals

    The Creativity Intensive: A semester (six appts, plus a free bonus appt — or entire workshop!) of 100% personalized focus on your unique creativity. Three months to delve into getting unstuck, starting (or finishing) a specific process, or developing lifelong tools for creativity and creative thinking.

    Single appts also available. Substantially reduced rates for previous Creativity Intensive clients means you can come back for a refresh anytime forever and ever.

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  • Facilitating Workshops Speaking

    For Organizations

    Each team member is unique, and we’ll celebrate how those differences can help us grow, individually and as an organization.

    Learn the APLOMB process to grow creative thinking skills: Accept. Prompt. Let. Open. Marinate. Blueprint.

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  • Consulting

    For Organizations

    Companies, startups, NGOs and nonprofits: How could your organization grow if you had a fractional Director of Creativity, Editorial Development or Creative Thinking for one month, six months, five years?

    Instead of bringing in a consultant to solve your problems for you, bring in an out-of-the-box creativity expert to develop your innovation and solution-finding skills.

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Ten True Statements*: Why Creativity? 

  1. Our world is becoming far more complex and multi-layered at a time where we humans need to develop these creative thinking skills the most.

  2. We all need to step up our creative thinking game ASAP. Even journalists and primary care doctors are at risk of losing their jobs.

  3. Those in the know point to multi-layered creativity and creative thinking as the skills for the future.

  4. Creativity is just fun. People and groups who learn how to safely incorporate more creative play and mind-expanding innovation usually do better than old, stodgy companies.

  5. Creativity is also scary (see: Bravery to the right). But we’ll start with Safety and Curiosity. Baby steps.

  6. In fact, you can read about how, starting in 1959, my Uncle Ernie invented the flip-top can this way.

  7. Once you learn these Third Layer tools of accessing more creative thinking, you’ll realize how fruitless it can be to solve problems on the first layer.

  8. You’ll also develop a language to talk Third Layer with your colleagues. 

  9.  The process is pretty quick. Even a few hours is enough. Several hours is better, and a few months means you’ll learn this for life. 

  10. * ‘Ten True Statements’ is one of the opening exercises I do with clients. Try it yourself! (Or hire me to walk you through it.)