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The facilitator of our workshops is
Larisa V. Shavinina, Ph.D., a Professor
of Project Management and Innovation at the Department of Administrative
Sciences in the University of Québec en
Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, Québec, Canada.
Dr. Shavinina is also the founder and President of INNOCREX as well as a member
of the Deputy Ministers Research-Action Roundtable on Creativity in the
Federal Public Service organized by the Canada School of Public Service.
Her research program includes such projects as the Nature of Creativity,
Innovation, Talent, and Excellence; Applied Creativity and Innovation
Education; Managerial Talent and Entrepreneurial Giftedness; Innovation
Leadership; and the Role of Intuition and Wisdom in Successful Management. Originally
focusing on high abilities (i.e., creativity, talent, and giftedness), Dr.
Shavinina’s research has expanded to encompass innovation. She is engaged
in research aimed at unifying the field of creativity, innovation, and
excellence, that is, to merge psychological, management, and business
perspectives together. Her main
teaching assignments are graduate courses on innovation, project team
management, successful project management, and project management skills
development. Dr. Shavinina is frequently an invited speaker at
important international-scale events in the field. She opened an
International Conference on Giftedness in Germany
(6 February 2006, Bad Boll) where she spoke about innovation education, and
also delivered a keynote presentation at the Wallace National Symposium on
Talent Development in the United States
(23 May 2006, Iowa City).
Dr. Shavinina will be a speaker at the Ideas Arabia 4th International
Conference where she will be talking on How
Can Innovation Help us through an Economic Recession (20
April 2009, Dubai). She will also be a keynote speaker at the Conference of the International
Centre for Innovation in Education (ICIE; 24-27 August, 2009, Ulm, Germany)
to celebrate the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Her
publications have appeared in the Review of General Psychology, New
Ideas in Psychology, Creativity
Research Journal, High Ability
Studies, Journal
for the Education of the Gifted, and others. She co-edited CyberEducation:
The Future of Long Distance
Learning (Liebert Publishers,
2001) and Beyond Knowledge: Extracognitive Aspects of Developing High
Ability (Erlbaum Publishers, 2004).
She edited Silicon Valley North: A High-Tech Cluster of
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Elsevier,
2004) and the best-selling International
Handbook on Innovation (Elsevier,
2003). Her
International Handbook on Giftedness
will be published in a few weeks by Springer Science and
Business Media. Dr. Shavinina is currently working on the following
books: Creativity and Innovation in Business, Why Are Nobel Laureates So
Innovative? On the Nature of Scientific Talent (to be published by Elsevier), and Creativity and
Innovation in the Public Service based on her interviews with Deputy
Ministers, Associate Deputy Ministers, and other top government officials
in Canada.
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