American Creativity Association
2007 International Conference

Conference Presentations and Presenters
2007 ACA International Conference
March 21 - 23, 2007 with pre-Conference Institutes - March 20, 2007
in Austin, Texas

KEYNOTE: Seven Levels of Change

Rolf Smith
Thinking Guide
The Virtual Thinking Expedition Company (vTx)
907 Alamo Road
Alamo Springs
Fredericksburg, Texas 78624
 (830) 992-2153
basecamp@thinking-expedition.com
www.thinking-expedition.com

Colonel Rolf Smith (U.S. Air Force, retired) is managing director of The Virtual Thinking Expedition Company (vTx), a process consulting group, and the School for Innovators where he teaches creativity and innovation skills that transform everyday heroes into fastforward change agents. He spent 24 controversially creative and innovative years on active duty with the U.S. military and NATO, launched the first military Office of Innovation in 1985, and created a worldwide network of Innovation Centers. Since Rolf left active military service, his focus has been on helping organizations and people think creatively and differently. He was a contract executive for four years with Exxon Marketing's Innovations Group, and in 1988 founded the School for Innovators to help people develop the leadership skills needed to kick-start innovation initiatives. His passion lies in organizing Thinking Expedition for groups and teams facing big, urgent messes -- and then leading them into the unknown to explore uncharted areas, attack challenging problems, discover new opportunities -- and bring back diffferent results.

Keynote: Seven Levels of Change

Results are about change. To get different results, you must do things differently; to do things differently, you must think differently -- creatively -- and to think different, you must begin by thinking about the way you think. In a high-speed, interactive adventure, Rolf Smith will oootch you and your thinking through increasingly higher levels of change -- mindshifts -- and guide you with a range of creative approaches to show you how to spot different ideas and different thinking, how to have different ideas, and how to do something different with them -- and THAT's a lot of diffferent! Rolf's book, The 7 Levels of Change, is a fieldguide for thinking and exploring differently and creates a new framework for those who are trying to lead creatively and make change happen.

Rolf is about creative results. He will position all of us to go through the rest of the ACA Conference very differently as he opens up our thinking, our awareness, and our idea-connecting abilities so that we can maximize our learning experiences and insights -- and return home loaded with discoveries and useful results.