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Today's guest is Chris Deaver, the co-founder of BraveCore, a leadership consultancy dedicated to helping leaders embrace creativity and empowering creatives to become better leaders. Chris has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Apple and Disney, inspiring them to develop groundbreaking content through a culture known as co-creation.

In today's corporate landscape, many companies stifle creativity and operate under toxic cultures, often without realizing it. As Chris and I discussed, this has been the norm for years because it worked. But now we've reached a tipping point where things are starting to fall apart, and the way we collaborate and build relationships needs to evolve. Chris and I explore what the culture of co-creation entails and how it has benefited early adopters like Apple. More importantly, he provides practical steps you can take to cultivate a culture of co-creation in your own environment.

Even if you're not a manager or CEO, my conversation with Chris provides essential advice for anyone who is a creative collaborating with others.. It highlights the importance of changing how we communicate with each other to foster more nurturing relationships, regardless of our roles.

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Here's What You'll Learn:

• Why Chris left his job at Disney after meeting a 'successful' animator
• How the International Mentoring Network started and how it grew
• KEY TAKEAWAY: There isn't a single path but a set of building blocks
• What is co-creation and how it helps in collaboration
• Why companies kill creativity
• The concept of the beast versus the baby
• How co-creation became an essential tool in the writing of Iron Man
• The questions you can ask to activate your creativity
• The toxic cultures that kill creativity (without us realizing it) and how to change them
• If there are better ways to do things, why aren't we doing it?
• What are the four turnings and where we are now in the cycle
• How to begin a culture of co-creation
• What are brave conversations
• KEY TAKEAWAY: If you want to affect change, it has to start with you and the next person, not from the top down.
• The first step toward building a culture of co-creation
• How to change behaviors and rethink relationships

Useful Resources Mentioned:

Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation: Deaver, Chris; Clawson, Ian

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration: Catmull, Ed

The Creative Act: A Way of Being: Rubin, Rick

What Is the Fourth Turning? Strauss and Howe's Theory of Crisis | Shortform Books 

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