High-impact consulting and solutions

Creative License™ Consulting

About Steven

Steven Kowalski, Ph.D., is the founder and President of Creative License™ Consulting. Together with partners from across industries and domains of expertise, Steven offers high-impact consulting and solutions for executive and leadership team development, organizational and employee effectiveness, and innovation culture transformation. Based on 25+ years of experience as a practitioner and consultant, Steven and his partners:

Our work with clients is most effective when:
  • You are looking for systemic solutions
  • Leaders within your organization demonstrate a commitment to innovation, diversity, learning, and employee development
  • Sustained business/organizational success depends on people bringing all their ingenuity and potential to the challenges they face.
Clients include:
  • Genentech, Inc.
  • Outset Medical
  • Calico
  • Arthur Andersen
  • Originaliti
  • Searle Pharmaceuticals
  • Unisys
  • Xerox Business Services

Business & Innovation Strategies

Leaders often talk about the importance of innovation to profitability, growth, and sustained organizational success. And while most of our clients include innovation in their company values or competency model, few actually have a clearly articulated innovation mission and strategy – along with “game-changing” goals and metrics.

Contact Creative License™ Consulting to find out more about how we can help you:
  • Discover arenas for creating new value
  • Define a bold, compelling and audacious innovation strategy, which serves as a focal point for mobilizing creative action.
  • Define a set of goals and metrics that clearly spell out how to achieve this strategy
  • Develop key messages and communications that inspire teams.
  • Address cultural norms that may inhibit the achievement of innovation goals.

Innovation Projects & Initiatives

Our clients tell us that one of the best ways to get peoples’ creativity kicked into high gear is to get them working on exciting projects that make a difference. Even better is when people closest to the work help define the inspiring opportunities they want to work on!

Contact Creative License™ Consulting to find out more about how we’ve worked with Scientists, Engineers, Project Managers, IT Managers, and HR Managers to:

  • Set up innovation projects for success
  • Ensure that people have freedom to bring all of their ingenuity, initiative and smarts to the process
  • Ensure people learn skills that transfer to success on future projects

More About Steven Kowalski, Ph.D.

President, Creative License™
Consulting Services

Steven provides executive and management development solutions that impact performance and business aims. Core areas of expertise and work include:

  • consulting to executives to define business innovation strategies and organizational leadership strategies
  • developing and delivering management and leadership programs
  • aligning leadership teams around critical and challenging goals
  • developing/executing culture change strategies.

Steven is the founder and president of Creative License. Since 1995, he has provided facilitation, coaching, and training for clients in the U.S. and Europe. He works to activate the creativity and ingenuity of leaders, teams, and entire departments toward the achievement of challenging goals. Clients have included Genentech, Xerox Business Services, British Sky Broadcasting, Unisys, Searle Pharmaceuticals, and Andersen UK, among others.

Steven offers a unique approach for helping leaders and teams succeed when results depend on ingenuity, agility, collaboration, and endurance in the face of obstacles. He has over 25 years of expertise in the field of creativity and innovation, a Ph.D. in adult learning and organizational creativity, and is the author of dozens of workplace learning programs. He has received international acclaim for his custom-designed training and learning materials, some of which have been translated into eight languages for up to 20,000 learners.

Steven’ also provides Business Transformation and Organization Development support to senior leaders. He has delivered both shorter-term and longer-term innovation programs within multiple business functions, and led strategic initiatives for clients including Work and Career Flexibility, The Future of Work, the development of Leadership Commitments and Competency models, and the development of an employee Career Center.