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K1 Keynote 2019-‐05-‐01 08:30

Creative Trespassing: Sneak More Imagination into Your Work and Get

More Done

Presented by:

Tania Katan Creative Trespassing

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Tania Katan Tania Katan, CEO of Creative Trespassing, is an award-‐winning author, creative consultant and keynote speaker who believes in storytelling at all costs! She has been a featured speaker at Business of Software, Social Innovation Summit, Etsy, S.H.E. Summit, NPR, Comedy Central Stage, TEDx, and more. Her work has been written about in Huffington Post, TIME, The New York Times, CNN, USA Today and other media outlets. Katan is the co-‐creator of the internationally viral empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress for Axosoft. She is a Certified Anti-‐Bias & Diversity Trainer through the Anti-‐Defamation League and well-‐respected advocate in the breast cancer community. Katan is currently working on a book about sneaking creativity into jobs, companies and lives called Creative Trespassing. When you're ready to start a creative revolution, check out: www.taniakatan.com.

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MUSEUMS DON’T HAVE BUGS


VIDEO

(Employee of the Month)

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VIDEO (Will Bruder)


“She’s not working, she’s just

running around having fun!”

Anonymous Museum Board Members, Colleagues & Concerned Citizens

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Assembled my own team

Increase Revenue

Increase Attendance

Brand Awareness

Earned Media

Fixed Bugs

Mic Drop


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REFRAME THE BLAME

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“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce.”

-‐Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Ac(vist


List all the unfair, unjust, un-‐effing believable crap slung at you between the hours of nine and five. The reasons why it’s someone else’s damn fault that

you are unhappy, unconfident, or unimaginaIve at work

Productive Disruption

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CIO…HELL NO!


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What you do at work that enlivens you and those around you

+ ResponsibiliIes of your posiIon

= Job Title On Purpose



LEVEL UP YOUR LISTENING

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“Silence is not the absence of sound.

silence is the absence of

distractions.”

-‐Ernesto Pujol Performance ArIst & Social Choreographer


KEEP MAKING STRANGE

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“The job of anthropologists is to make the strange

familiar and the familiar strange. As artists, it’s our

job to keep making strange.”

-‐Casandra Hernandez anthropologist & ED of an arts organizaIon

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How would you describe a typical work ritual to someone who just

landed on earth?



FIND YOUR INNER “T” AND

ASK, WHAT IF…

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VIDEO

(It Was Never A Dress)

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•  Identify a problem/issue/bug that no one is looking to solve.

•  Invite differently skilled “T’s” to the table

•  Agree to suspend disbelief and brainstorm the most unbelievable, outlandish solutions.

•  Start with, What if…



LET’S TEST OUR LIMITS

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