David was invited to take part in an online creativity event, to share his experience of creativity and empowerment in the creative industries world-wide. The online creativity event was hosted by Gunhild Lorenzen, a licensed transpersonal psychotherapist, master of creative transformation, inspirational life coach, artist and a published author. David’s interview with Gunhild for the online …
Category: Creativity
Orange Economy Speaker in Bogotá, Colombia
David was a keynote Orange Economy speaker at the Orange Festival events to promote the creative industries in Colombia. The Orange Festival (Festival Naranja) was organised by Bogotá Naranja, festival events included speeches and presentations, discussion panels, interviews, workshops, and networking meetings. David gave a keynote speech: “Successful Creative Entrepreneurship in the Orange Economy Worldwide”. He …
Creative Business meeting at Chiang Mai University
David was the guest speaker at an academic meeting about creative business at Chiang Mai University. At the Faculty of Business Administration, David talked about creative business and business models in the creative industries with academic staff in the Management Department. He also shared some creative business examples from his work with creative entrepreneurs around …
Business Creativity Around the World – Presentation in Malaysia
David Parrish gave a presentation on ‘Business Creativity Around the World’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 30 June 2017. He spoke to an audience of entrepreneurs in the digital and creative industries. David was invited as an international guest speaker by Common Ground, a company that is redefining workspaces throughout Southeast Asia. Common Ground supports …
Business Creativity Speech in Chiang Mai, Thailand
David Parrish gave a Business Creativity speech in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at the ‘Punspace’ workspace creative hub for digital nomads, startups and creative entrepreneurs. He made a presentation entitled ‘How to Profit from Creativity in Business: Think Creatively to Achieve Success’, drawing on his own experience as an entrepreneur and his work in more than 50 …
Creativity Summit Speaker
David was invited to be a Creativity Summit speaker, to talk about “Creativity in the Studio – and in the Business Office”. The theme of the Creativity Summit was “Increase your productivity and profits without compromising your creative flow”. The Creativity Summit was broadcast from Australia and streamed on 22-24 May. In the Creative Summit, …
Creative Collaborations
It can be stimulating and inspiring to work with other creative people on new projects, so it’s worth thinking about what makes creative collaborations work well. The first thing to establish is a common purpose, or ‘mission’ for the collaborative project. Ralph Ardill, founder of the Brand Experience Consultancy, calls this a ‘manifesto’ – a …
Competing Effectively
Competing effectively involves understanding your competitive advantage in relation to rivals in the marketplace. In other words: You’re creative – but so are they! In one of my business development workshops for creative entrepreneurs, there were artists, musicians, advertising professionals etc; by coincidence there happened to be three designers in the room. It was interesting …
Marketing Cultural Projects – three rules
The EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme has published three main rules for marketing cultural projects. Here are three recommendations for marketing cultural projects from the online marketing course written and presented by David Parrish and published by the EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme 1. Listen to your client From David Parrish’s experience, the …
Pre-Mortem Creativity Technique
When a project goes wrong, managers will hold a ‘post-mortem’ exercise to analyse why, and to ensure that things go well next time. In contrast, the Pre-Mortem creativity technique is used before the event to anticipate problems – so that they can be prevented. This can be perceived as ‘negative thinking’ – but on the …