Author/Visiting Professor: Newport Business School, Wales, UK
Adjunct Faculty: Justice Management Master’s Degree Program, University of Nevada, Reno, NV/Professor, Marketing and Management, Business School, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
TOPICS -
• Burnout • Business • Coaching
• Entrepreneurship • Innovation • Strategic Planning
"What a personal trainer does for your fitness, a life coach does for the rest of your life."
Dr. Andre Walton
At the core André is an inventor, somewhat of an anarchist (sorry, disruptor!), and a traveler. His belief in his inventions motivated him into entrepreneurship which funded travel and experiences almost beyond belief. When André sold his businesses, he continued his passion for traveling and absorbing foreign cultures - living and working in seven different countries. He then ‘went back to school’ and completed a Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a focus on “creativity in an organizational context”.
In 2011 André published Embracing the New Era (ISBN-10: 1452848289 ISBN-13 : 978-1452848280) which examines creativity from a new perspective and explains many anomalies of creativity from why brainstorming doesn’t work to why creatives have a higher rate of psychological problems compared to others. André is now a life and executive/business coach, lives in Reno and plays lots of music – jazz flute, saxophone, piano and guitar. He is also a published photographer, meditator, and enthusiastic grandfather of three. As well as writing dozens of social scientific papers and book chapters, André was a journalist for many years in the U.K.
The current economic and social turmoil may prove to mark the advent of a new era - the Era of Creativity, potentially as revolutionary as the industrial revolution. Old management models have finally been put to the test and have been found lacking. Employees require more from employers as do customers, regulators, investors, the media and the general public. Corporate ethics have never been tested to the extent they are now; the demand has never been greater for a new model of organizational management – management for creativity.
We are challenged by new industry practices such as outsourcing which are challenging our security. The old values of educational achievements fail to guarantee opportunity. Creativity is the new ‘value-added’ for individuals, organizations, cities and nations. The new workplace currency. Those that recognize this will be the leaders of the new era, those that do not will struggle.
‘Embracing the New Era’ looks at creativity from a new perspective in order to prescribe how we can position it at the top of our personal and organizational priority list. It examines how we can manage ourselves and our organizations in order to recognize the opportunity in economic turbulence, and how we can generate flexible, stable and happy places that are adaptable to our changing times.