Karina Loera Creativity & Entrepreneurship

Published: Aug. 25, 2023, noon

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Our 35th episode of the Creative Flow: Thinkers and Change Agents Podcast Series features\\xa0Karina Loera, MS\\xa0founder of Strategik Minds LLC, and a faculty member for the Masters in Innovation Management at\\xa0Universidad de la Sabana\\xa0in Colombia. Karina discusses how she sees Creativity transform the entrepreneurs she works with to grow their businesses. Her other passion is teaching and seeing her students increase their organizational impact by mastering the creative problem solving process. Born and raised in Mexico City, teaching in Colombia, and living in the USA for eight years, she shares insights on how culture impacts our creativity mindset and the tools she uses to create common ground.\\xa0

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Karina left behind a high-powered marketing career to achieve a\\xa0Master\'s in Creative Studies and Change Leadership at the Center for Applied Imagination, SUNY Buffalo State University.\\xa0Her work at the\\xa0Small Business Development Center\\xa0gave her an understanding of how\\xa0entrepreneurs represent the creative person because they constantly face uncertainty. Working with a startup company and now in her own business, she understands how the creative process can help solve daily problems entrepreneurs face.

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Karina helped organize the\\xa0Masters in Innovation Management at Universidad de la Sabana in Colombia\\xa0and teaches a class on innovation management to give students the tools and resources to develop and ensure innovation is happening in their organization. She shares the thrill of reading their dissertations and describes the many success stories her students have achieved. Learn about Karina\'s Creative Flow, training people, and imagining the experience she wants participants to have in her class.

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Don\'t miss this discussion of the future of creativity and the insights of a multicultural leader.\\xa0Find our podcast today on all of your favorite platforms.

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