How To Regain Your Creativity
Creativity does not disappear as careers progress.
It becomes crowded out by pressure, certainty, hierarchy, and speed.
This keynote introduces the Space Model — a practical framework showing how individuals can recover their own creative capacity and, in doing so, create the conditions for teams to think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and solve better problems together.
Developed through Jacob Allan’s work at the University of Sydney Business School, the model reframes creativity as a leadership behaviour rather than a personal trait.
When leaders change the space around thinking, teams change how they perform. ✨
The Core Idea
Creative organisations are not built by creative departments.
They are built by leaders who know how to create the right conditions for insight.
This keynote shows audiences how creativity returns when leaders learn to create:
- thinking space to see problems differently
- contribution space so people speak honestly
- alignment space so decisions move forward together
- creative space where new possibilities emerge
- momentum space so ideas translate into action
When individuals regain access to these spaces themselves, they naturally begin creating them for others. 🚀
What Audiences Leave With
- a clear understanding of why creativity declines across careers
- practical ways to recover their own creative thinking
- a framework for leading more intelligent conversations
- tools for unlocking team contribution and alignment
- a new model of leadership suited to complex environments
The result is not simply more ideas but leaders who know how to create teams that think better together.
