Michelle James is a business and work creativity catalyst, facilitator, and Creative Emergence coach who has worked with thousands of people – entrepreneurs, teams, organizations, leaders, and facilitators – over the past 20+ years in her workshops, train-the-trainer programs, and coaching. She is CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence, founder of two community Creativity Networks, and Quantum Leap Business Improv. Her mission is to integrate the worlds of creativity, service, meaning and commerce, and cultivate whole-brain, whole-person engagement at work…and in life. She was recognized for Visionary Leadership in Fast Company’s blog, Leading Change, for “her commitment to bring creative expression into the work environment in a very deep and meaningful way.” Believing that everyone has a calling, Michelle supports her coaching clients in structuring what's most alive and meaningful in them into income-generating work through a unique, highly creative, emergent process. Her original programs have been featured on TV, radio, podcasts, and in print. Michelle further engages her creativity as an improv theater and Playback theater performer, painter, and CoreSomatics Master Practitioner. She produced two sold-out Creativity in Business Conferences in DC, and is currently writing her first book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator’s Guide to Cultivating Creativity and developing an accompanying Creative Facilitation Certification Program. Learn more about Michelle at her website www.creativeemergence.com