The Creative Leadership Experience
Where teams create more than artwork
Over two or three days, a senior team creates one large-scale painting together and sees, as it happens, how it thinks, decides and leads.
Aligned on paper. Different in the room.
Decisions stall. The same voices dominate. Conversations about trust and change stay polite and abstract. Conventional away-days are enjoyable, but they rarely change how a team actually works.
Put a blank two-metre canvas in front of the same team and the real patterns appear within minutes: who takes control, who holds back, how ambiguity is handled, and what happens when someone paints over someone else’s work.
Creativity in action. Leadership in practice.
No artistic experience required.
This is not an art class.
1 · Discover
How each person approaches a challenge, makes decisions and communicates.
2 · Create
Together, the team builds a large-scale artwork around a theme drawn from its own agenda.
3 · Reflect
Facilitated debrief: what the canvas revealed about leadership, decisions and collaboration.
4 · Integrate
Decision-making tools and agreed actions the team takes straight back into the business.
An artist’s process. A business owner’s eye.
While the team paints, Tim watches what a business leader would: how decisions are made under ambiguity, who leads and who withdraws, how risk and disagreement are handled, and whether ideas are built on or defended. The debrief then brings in Tim’s own tools, LVR and DUET, which aid understanding and improve communication, and for commercial teams ScFi, so that what happened on the canvas carries straight into how the team decides and leads.
Tim brings more than thirty years of international leadership development with leaders in 65 countries. In the UAE that includes UAE national leadership development and women-in-leadership programmes. He has worked with Sheikh Zayed University, Turbine Services & Solutions and AMROC in Abu Dhabi. He is an entrepreneur and business owner, and a painter studying at the Florence Academy of Art.
Your team leaves with
- Improved cohesion: an honest, shared picture of how the team really works
- Improved collaboration and communication: more direct, more trusting
- Sharper decisions: LVR and DUET, tools that aid understanding and improve communication (and ScFi for commercial teams), with agreed actions
- An artwork that lasts: a lasting reminder of what the team built and a source of shared pride, displayed in the boardroom or reception, or kept private
How it works
- Duration
- 2–3 days, tailored to your group and outcomes
- Location
- At your premises in the UAE, or as a strategy off-site in Puglia, southern Italy, with a team dinner built into the programme
- Group
- Executive and senior teams of 6 to 20
- Materials
- All supplied. You provide only the people
- Space
- A room with wall or floor space for a 2 × 1.5 m canvas
- Confidential
- What is said in the room stays in the room
Optional individual executive coaching for team members: 3-month engagements that turn insights from the experience into lasting change in behaviour.
“Tim knows how to allow for creative ideas from teams and create true team ownership of goals.”
Kevin Kollar, SVP, Head of Client Success
“An uncanny ability to relate to people from all levels of an organisation.”
Ryan O’Hare, CEO, Australia & Asia-Pacific, Keypath Education
“He breaks up the days with interesting tasks and does not allow anyone to drift away.”
Christopher Bannocks, Client Partner, Elixirr
“A ‘spot-on’ learning experience for our highly diverse management group.”
Joseph Wert, Trusted Advisor to CEOs, Executive Teams & Boards
Let’s talk
Explore how the experience could serve your next leadership off-site, integration or change programme.