Charles Clough
Arena Painting Experience
Keynote Speaker, Friday June 21
All day Friday, June 21st the CPSI community will share in an Arena painting experience with Charles Clough, followed by an evening talk about the themes and methods important to his work.
Arena Painting is a group painting experience. A large canvas, gallons of paint representing the full spectrum, and Clough’s “big finger” painting tools are provided for participants to apply and articulate the colors. As a ritual, Arena Painting has rich symbolic power and everyone who participates leaves transformed.
About: Charles Clough

Charles Clough was identified by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a leader of the “Pictures Generation” artists in its eponymously titled 2009 exhibition.
Charles Clough

Charles Clough was identified by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a leader of the “Pictures Generation” artists in its eponymously titled 2009 exhibition.
Biography
His paintings are included in the permanent collections of more than 70 museums, including The Met, National Gallery of Art and at least one museum in each of the fifty, United States. The University at Buffalo Art Gallery presented a forty-year retrospective exhibition of Clough’s work in 2012. He has taught art at Columbia University and the Rhode Island School of Design and been awarded fellowships and from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Gottlieb Foundation. In 1974 Clough co-founded the pioneering alternative arts space, Hallwalls, with Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman in Buffalo, New York. He is currently moving his studio to Buffalo where it will become The Clufffalo Institute.
Tim Hurson
Shock of the Possible
Closing Keynote, Sunday June 23
Every CPSI 2013 attendee will have the chance to participate in Tim’s transformative keynote on The Shock of the Possible: Transforming the Impossible to the Inevitable. In this inspirational plenary session, Tim will share stories that will shock you with the infinite creativity of people who refused to submit to impossibility. He will offer seven creative keys to unlock the potential hidden in any challenge – to transform the impossible into the inevitable. If the only chains that shackle us are the chains we forge ourselves, learn to put your will to work on your own new Possible!
About: Tim Hurson

Tim is founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital and has delivered productive thinking programs throughout the world. He has keynoted in over 30 countries on six continents about how to use the principles of productive thinking and creative leadership to manage change rather than be swamped by it.
Tim Hurson

Tim is founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital and has delivered productive thinking programs throughout the world. He has keynoted in over 30 countries on six continents about how to use the principles of productive thinking and creative leadership to manage change rather than be swamped by it.
Biography
Tim is a founding director of Mindcamp and Facilitators Without Borders, and serves on several other non-profit boards.
Since its publication in 2008, Tim’s book Think Better: An Innovator’s Guide to Productive Thinking has consistently been one of McGraw Hill’s top ten business books, and is now in its fifth printing. It is used as a text book in over 100 business and MBA programs in the US, Canada, Australia, Korea, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil, and has been translated into eight languages.
Tim is currently working on several book projects: Sell Better, about applying the principles of productive thinking to the sales process, Think Better (than your parents), a graphic approach to teaching productive thinking to young people, and There is No Box, an adult allegory about creative thinking.
Mary O’Hara-Devereaux
The Art & Adventure of Crossing to the Future: Thriving in Turbulent Times
Opening Keynote: Thursday, June 20
Every CPSI 2013 attendee will have the chance to participate in Mary's transformative opening keynote on The Art & Adventure of Crossing to the Future: Thriving in Turbulent Times. In this inspirational plenary session you'll:
- Discover how The Badlands’ economic and social forecasts impact your industry and business
- Learn eight trends that will shape your future and groundbreaking strategies to leapfrog ahead
- Gain actionable insights to plot your inevitable “strategy decay,” and how to avoid it
- Assess your own “leadership readiness” to steer through turbulent environments and “laser” in on your personal edge needed to thrive
- Take home tools to remove barriers to innovation and create organizational resilience to “morph” in response to the ongoing flow of new opportunities
- Leave inspired and energized to chart your expedition to the far foothills of the future
About: Mary O’Hara-Devereaux

Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading futurists and business forecasters, a sought-after keynote speaker, and the author of such best-selling books as Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation.
Mary O’Hara-Devereaux

Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading futurists and business forecasters, a sought-after keynote speaker, and the author of such best-selling books as Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation.
Biography
Over the last 25 years, Mary has established a global reputation as a steady-eyed forecaster and strategy partner whose legendary trend-spotting and analysis have helped thousands of senior executives around the the world scan, scout, and steer their way towards targets no one else can see.
Mary accurately forecast the period of chaos, disruption, and unrivalled opportunity that will last another decade.
Now—in her famously provocative and pragmatic dispatches from the frontlines of the future—she makes sense of the extraordinary economic and social fault lines that are re-shaping the future of business and reveals the specific implications for any organization that hopes to thrive in turbulent times.
Mary's deep cross-industry, cross-sector experience includes work for a roster of Blue Chip clients in more than 50 countries on seven continents—global corporate clients such as Apple Computer, Oracle, P&G, CITIC-Pacific, Genentech, Royal Canadian Bank, Merck, Ericsson and pre-eminent non-profit leaders including United Way, Kaiser Family Foundation, World Bank, Harvard Kennedy School, Milken Global Institute.
Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based think tank and strategy consulting firm Global Foresight and former Director of the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, Mary is renowned for her myth-busting insights that are at once profound, provocative, and pragmatic. Her finger-on-the-pulse forecasting and strategy engagements have fuelled top leaders to propel their companies to long-term sustainable profits.
A China expert, Mary's books China Five-Year Forecast: Creating the New Marketplace and China's Generations: the Transformation of Daily Life are considered the bibles for business leaders wanting to engage successfully in the world's most important emerging market.
Mary's work has been featured on Bloomberg TV, Fox TV, CCTV in China, National Public Radio, AARP Radio and other regional and local radio shows; and in the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Los Angeles Times and other magazines and journals. Mary serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. Recently a professor at Peking University, she has also served as faculty at the University of California. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California, and Fielding Graduate University.


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