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Dr. Caroline Brookfield

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Artful Science
Country or state 
Canada (Alberta)
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City 
Calgary
Fee 
Languages 
English
Timezone 
America/Edmonton

Personal Details

Current position (2)

Speaker

Artful Science

Veterinarian Locum Tenens

Self Employed

Degrees (4)
Veterinary Medicine
Ontario Veterinary College
1991 to 1997
Certificate of Professional Management (in progress)
University of Calgary
2013 to 2019
Level 2 Facilitator
Creative Education Foundation
2021
IAM Ambiguity Assessment
AdaptIQ Minds
2024

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Dr. Caroline Brookfield is a Reluctant Creative. She is a veterinarian, author, speaker, stand-up comic, and mom. Faced with a false ultimatum of art or science, she chose science. Does that sound familiar? If you’re a “left brainer” like Caroline, you might share the belief that creativity is for artists, kids and grandmas, and somewhat ancillary to more important goals. Feeling snubbed, eventually Caroline’s creativity demanded attention like a cat at dinnertime. She learned how to integrate her creative and scientific sides, realizing the importance of both, and that you don’t have to choose. Caroline is passionate about helping you to identify your own barriers to individual, everyday creativity, so that you can speak up, stand out, and build a uniquely satisfying future for yourself. Caroline presents balanced evidence, with easy to understand and actionable takeaways, kind of like a keynote mullet: Fun up front and data in the back. You can also learn how to balance rigor with creative expression to survive the gusting winds of change, with a smile on your face.

Caroline received honors for her veterinary degree from the Ontario Veterinary College, is a certified level 2 Creative Problem Solving facilitator, and holds a Certificate of Professional Management from the University of Calgary. She is always up for a challenge, like learning guitar, rock climbing, getting her kids to eat vegetables, surfing, meditation retreats with sniper rifles. You know, the usual stuff. Caroline lives in Calgary, Alberta, where her lectures go unheeded by her family. The dog listens, sometimes.

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Dr. Caroline Brookfield is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, veterinarian, and award-winning innovator. She challenges “non creatives” to connect to a creative mindset in order to build confidence in change, to buffer against burnout, and to start finding new solutions to old problems. Caroline holds a DVM, a Certificate of Professional Management, and is a certified Creative Problem Solving and IAM Ambiguity Assessment facilitator. Her experience in business, clinical practice, non profit, research, academia and industry gives her a wide view of the challenges in organizations. Her ADHD compels her to find the “so what’ in data and evidence. She lives in Calgary, Alberta, where her lectures go unheeded by her family. The dog listens, if treats are involved.

Presentations

Presentations (6)
The Reluctant Creative: Build Stronger Teams with Creativity

Summary:
Everyday creativity improves your decisions in uncertainty, mood, job performance, resilience, leadership and more. Teams composed of individuals who express their unique style of creativity get better results. If you think you are too analytical or left brained to be creative, Dr. Caroline will reveal the irony that science proves you wrong.

Amplify team collaboration with everyday creativity, and reap the rewards of improved retention and recruitment, innovation, and a happier place to work.

Objectives:
How “left brainers” can embrace their unique style of creativity
Apply evidence based principles on effective use of the two types of creativity.
Engage 5 effortless habits every day for a creative mindset.
Collaborate and generate more insights with a creative culture.
Bolster team engagement, resilience and well-being
Use creative habits to build windmills in the gale of change, instead of getting blown away.

The Creative Leader: Unlock Potential at Every Level for Inconceivable Results

Summary:
Stop settling for sub-par, incremental improvements on old solutions. In this interactive experience, we will explore the prerequisites for creative thinking. 93% of companies prioritize innovation. Yet only 18% of employees feel that they can take the risks at work to be creative. Smell that? It’s the smell of opportunity - for those who are willing to think differently.

We have a big brain for a reason. Let’s use it to pause, get curious, and adapt. Banish status quo thinking and foster collaboration, engagement, and innovation at every level.

Objectives:
Make better decisions despite an outdated reaction to uncertainty.
Amplify curiosity for better business results and collaboration.
Get better ideas from yourself and others by avoiding the biggest pitfall in creative thinking.
Multiply profits and innovation by applying prerequisites for a creative company.

Outcomes
For leaders who are willing to do what it takes for peak performance and disruptive management.

The Creative Collaborator: Rediscover the Spark to Light Your Fire.

The pace of change in the world has accelerated beyond our ability to adapt. Our default tried and true formulas are not working like they used to. Creativity is the prerequisite to innovation, and the antidote to languishing in 2022. Companies are scrambling to attract and retain talent, making it impossible to develop deep and impactful initiatives for lasting prosperity. Employees are feeling disengaged, and searching for ways to create new opportunities for a life with meaning.

Is there a treasure map to find the buried gems of life and work satisfaction? The answer is creativity. But it’s not what you think.

Objectives:
Find your voice with everyday creativity
Self-talk secrets to worry less about judgement
Smile more (even at work)
5 effortless habits to catalyze creativity.

Engage your unique, elemental, human gift of creativity to change your life, and probably the world. No arts and crafts required.

Herding Zebras: How to lead through uncertainty with confidence

When managers are constantly putting out fires instead of doing the deep work of leading and supporting their teams, innovation gets left behind, and performance suffers. This reactive leadership style, coupled with a workforce resistant to change, fosters an environment ripe for disengagement, lackluster results, and high turnover. Recent studies have shown that only 18% of employees feel empowered to take creative risks at work, underscoring the need for a transformative approach to leadership and innovation.
If you are looking for a fresh approach to building an adaptable, engaged workforce that consistently leads the way, discover the dynamic duo of creativity and tolerance of ambiguity (TOA). Both are important skills, easily trained, but often ignored.
By nurturing tolerance of ambiguity in leaders and teams through creativity, you can turn resistance into a catalyst for growth. Imagine a workplace where employees are not just adaptable to change, but excited by it. Organizations

DANCE Your Way to a Creative Mindset

Looking for a break in the program or after lunch to lift up the energy? This 30 to 60 minute fun and engaging workshop will encode the 5 habits to engage creativity with thoughtful and integrated exercises in groups. Attendees will practice each of the 5 habits in the DANCE framework with group exercises. Curated exercises will engage collaboration, engagement and networking among participants. Laughs guaranteed!
This workshop can be a stand alone exploration of DANCE habits for creativity, or can follow a keynote to embed the concepts and incorporate networking and interactive elements.
Audience takeaways:

Practice each of the 5 habits in the DANCE framework.
Recognize each person’s unique creative style.
Movement breaks to increase energy and mood and engagement.
Encode the theory of the DANCE framework with kinesthetic exercises.
Foster collaboration, networking and collaboration with others.

What’s the Point? Inspire a culture of creativity and collaboration in your team, one meeting at a

Despite the hype about canceling all meetings, you need to get your team together so that you can all be on the same page. Nobody loves meetings, but you try to make them interesting, by using icebreakers and fun activities. Your efforts are repaid with subtle and not-so-subtle groans and eye rolls, mixed with bemused and reluctant engagement.
Wouldn’t it be great if an icebreaker not only engaged your team but also had a business purpose? What if you could get that one team member to finally participate?
Let’s look at meetings in a different way. In this session you will learn the basic fundamentals of creative problem solving, and how to apply them to meetings to drive problem solving with a purpose and an actionable outcome.
Teams who collaborate with creativity have higher performance, team cohesion, and engagement. Team members who use their creativity are half as likely to be looking for a new job, and bring their whole selves to work to solve more business challenges.
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Past talks (27)
Think Differently = Different Results
SHRM Annual
Chicago
June 25, 2024
The Reluctant Creative: Ignite Originality for Remarkable Results
Edwards LIfesciences GHER
Bend, Orgeon
June 13, 2024
The Reluctant Creative: Unleash Everyday Creativity for Unparalleled Results
NextGen Conference Connect First Credit Union
Online
June 14, 2023
New Approaches for Success: Employ a Creative Mindset to Discover New Techniques for Candidate Sourcing
NAHCR - National Association of Healthcare Recruiters
Online
February 28, 2023
Blood, Sweat and Smiles: Rebound after a Tough Day
ORNAC - Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada
Blood, Sweat and Smiles: Rebound after a Tough Day
June 2, 2023
Blood, sweat and smiles: Rebound from a Tough Day
National Emergency Nurses Association
Calgary, Alberta
April 30, 2023
The Reluctant Creative: Ignite a Creative Mindset for Ingenious Results.
Women in Ag - CONNECT – The Heart of the Farm 2023
Saskatoon, SK
November 8, 2023
Innovation Starts with "I"
MDRAO
Toronto, ON
September 22, 2023
What's the Point? Inspire a Culture of Creativity and Collaboration in Your Team, One Meeting at a Time
NAHCR - National Association of Healthcare Recruiters
Austin, TX
Put a Spring in Your Step: Find a New Way Forward with Everyday Creativity
NAHCR - National Association of HealthCare Recruiters
Austin, TX
July 27, 2023
Innovation Starts with "I": Spark Creativity in Every Team Member for Extraordinary Solutions
TOLGMA - Thompson Okanagan Local Government Management Association
Sun Peaks, BC
September 7, 2023
The Reluctant Creative: 5 Effortless Habits to Expand your Comfort Zone
Advancing Women in Agriculture East
Niagara Falls, ON
November 19, 2023
The Reluctant Creative: 5 Effortless Habits to Expand your Comfort Zone
Advancing Women in Agriculture West
Calgary, Alberta
March 13, 2023
The Reluctant Creative: 5 Effortless Habits to Expand your Comfort Zone
Edmonton Construction Association - The Hub of Construction
Edmonton AB
May 10, 2023
D.A.N.C.E into the future with Creativity
Pharmacy Technician Society of Alberta
Virtual (Alberta)
September 13, 2020
Creative Discomfort for Uncertain Times
Women's Leadership Network of Helena, Montana
Virtual (Montana)
October 30, 2020
Creativity - the Secret Sauce for the Future of Work
DisruptHRYYC
Calgary
November 4, 2019
Creativity and Science: Better than Peanut Butter and Chocolate
Calgary City Teacher's Convention
Calgary
February 15, 2019
Entrepreneurology: The Art and Science of Running Your Business and Enjoying It
Resource YYC
Calgary
November 6, 2018
Creative Resilience
Bredin Centre for Learning
Calgary Alberta
February 8, 2019
Fostering Creativity and Resiliency - Skills Needed for the Changing Labour Market
Private Career Development Contractors of Alberta
Calgary, Alberta
June 17, 2019
Creativity for the Future of Work
AAISA
Calgary Alberta
October 30, 2019
Tolerance of Ambiguity - Resilience for Entrepreneurs
ATB Entrepreneur Centre
Calgary
September 30, 2019
Creativity - The Secret Sauce for Thriving in Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Education Today 2021
Toronto (Virtual)
November 13, 2021
Creativity - DANCE into a Brighter Future as a Better Human
Manitoba Veterinary Technologists Association
Manitoba (virtual)
December 2, 2021
Thriving in Uncertainty With Creativity
Women Presidents' Organization
Global - VIrtual
Radical Impact with Creativity - Leadership, Team Cohesion, Engagement
Women in Insurance
Canada - Virtual
June 15, 2021
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Books & Articles (2)

The Reluctant Creative: 5 Effortless Habits to Expand Your Comfort Zone
Artful Science,
2022
Creativity Blog

Expertise (22)

Health & Well-being
Leadership
Business
Collaborative Innovation Individual Creativity Leadership Build Healthy, Happy, Engaged Employees Building effective teams Emotional Health and Well Being For Sales Meetings applied creativity Personal Development and Growth Innovation Creative Innovation Mindset Veterinary Medicine Change mindset Agile mindset Creating Habits, Changing Mindsets creative leadership creative mindset brave leadership

Clients

SHRM Annual 2024
Edwards Lifesciences GHER
Connect First Credit Union NextGen Leaders
IMed Pharma
Women in Insurance Canada
Advancing Women in Agriculture East and West
ORNAC - Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada
NAHCR - National Association of Health Care Recruiters
NVA Canada
NENA - National Emergency Nurses Association
VET Toronto (sponsored by NVA - National Veterinary Associates)
CPHR Alberta
TOLGMA -Thompson Okanagan Local Government Management Association
MVTA - Manitoba Veterinary Technician Association
Connect: Heart of the Farm - Saskatchewan Women in Agriculture
PTSA - Pharmacy Technician Society of Alberta
Women President's Organization Calgary Chapter
Edmonton Construction Association
Professional Career Development Contractors Alberta
Women's Leadership Network Helena Montana
MDRAO
ElevatedHR Calgary
AAISA - Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies
Strathcona Small Business Week
BottomLine Marketing Calgary
DisruptHRYYC
GeoWomen CSPG

HRPA competencies

Core Competencies (Primary)
Organizational Effectiveness
Core Competencies (Secondary)
Learning & Development
Professional Practice
Health, Wellness & Safe Workplace
Enabling Competencies
Decision-Making Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Independence
Relationship Management
Strategic and Organizational Leadership

Awards & certifications (1)

Innovator of the Year Award
Nestle Purina Mississauga
2014
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Light delivery, deep message. Actionable takeaways and interactive approach based on evidence.

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