the Playful Creative - Episode 3: Dr Steve Ralph on Disruption, Pause, and the EPIC International Summit

Welcome to the Playful Creative! A place to explore how playfulness, art, curiosity, and creativity enrich the human experience. I’m your host, Sarah Moyle, a Visual Storyteller and Creative Catalyst. I’m endlessly curious about the ways people bring creativity, experimentation, art, and play into different areas of their lives, so listen in to learn from play experts, artist, musicians, and so many more interesting people. On this episode of the Playful Creative, we welcome Dr Steve Ralph, Welcome to the Playful Creative! A place to explore how playfulness, art, curiosity, and creativity enrich the human experience. I’m your host, Sarah Moyle, a Visual Storyteller and Creative Catalyst. I’m endlessly curious about the ways people bring creativity, experimentation, art, and play into different areas of their lives, so listen in to learn from play experts, artist, musicians, and so many more interesting people. On this episode of the Playful Creative, we welcome Dr Steve Ralph, founder of the EPIC Impact Society, an education and arts based nonprofit organization that produces the annual creativity and social innovation the conference, EPIC International Summit. The Summit has been recognized as one of the top 15 most innovative meetings in North America (BizBash) and has featured leaders from organizations such as Disney, NASA/JPL, Lionsgate and numerous award-winning actors, entrepreneurs and educators. Dr. Ralph is also the founder and CEO of Open Ingenuity, a practice that focuses on designing and delivering customized workshops and retreats for organizations. Through Open Ingenuity projects, Dr. Ralph applies his expertise in fostering ingenuity within individuals and teams, building innovative organizational cultures and utilizing the creative problem-solving process. He is a Strategic Play certified trainer and facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods, and a certified facilitator in the FourSight Thinking Assessment. Dr. Ralph serves as a faculty member with Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, where he teaches courses in creativity and innovation, leadership, organizational behavior and team dynamics. His research interests are centered in creativity and innovation, with special focus in personal disruption, leadership development and the impact of exponential technology.Through a blend of teaching, designing and facilitating customized workshops, producing special events, training and coaching, Steve works with individuals, teams and organizations to unlock ingenuity. Today, we’ll talk about the upcoming EPIC International Summit and the importance of pause and disruption for creativity and innovation. Today, we’ll talk about the upcoming EPIC International Summit and the importance of pause and disruption for creativity and innovation.