Sir Ken Robinson Headlines 2015 Creativity World Forum
Internationally recognized leader and speaker on the importance of creativity in educating today’s workforce, Sir Ken Robinson, will headline the 2015 Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City, March 31st. Sir Ken returns to Oklahoma after serving as national advisor to the startup of Creative Oklahoma in 2005 and returns for the ten-year celebration.
The theme of this special international Forum is “All Our Futures: Ideas That Matter,” based on Sir Ken Robinson’s widely acclaimed publication All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education. This 1998 publication was the culminating work of a special commission led by Sir Ken on the importance of creativity, education and the economy that led to sweeping changes in the UK during Tony Blair’s administration.
Sir Ken has gained international recognition through his 2006 and 2010 appearances at the TED conference and the online views of those talks. With an estimated 200 million views from 150 different countries, Sir Ken has the distinction of being the most viewed TED Talk presenter in the organization’s history.
He currently works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations and speaks to audiences throughout the world about the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.
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“Human Resources are like natural resources; they’re often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they’re not just lying around on the surface.”
-Sir Ken Robinson: Bring On the Learning Revolution!
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status”
-Sir Ken Robinson: How Schools Kill Creativity
“How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century? Given that we can’t anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of next week?”
-Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms