The Creative Education Foundation
CEF Names Victoria Cliche as Executive Director
December 7, 2005
To our Creative Education Foundation Members, Leaders, Family and Friends:
As the year winds down, we are excited to report on a flurry of significant activity.
NEW CEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANNOUNCED
After a successful year, marked with improved fiscal stability, and after an extensive and thorough search for a world-class executive to lead and manage our pioneering organization, the Board of Directors is happy to announce that Victoria Cliche has accepted the position of CEF Executive Director effective December 1, 2005.
Victoria has an extensive business background having spent over 15 years on Wall Street working in a number of areas including: retail sales, corporate marketing and communications, training and development, and operations in the Americas and Europe. She taught as an adjunct professor at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University and has run a successful management consulting practice in New York City focused on executive development, team functioning and process redesign.
Victoria believes that allowing creativity is imperative in all aspects of life and has worked to shift organizational cultures to allow, foster and capture the benefit of human expression.
We feel that her combination of professional experience and skills, coupled with her energetic spirit, make her an ideal fit for our organization. We also believe that she will be able to help the Creative Education Foundation progress in its mission to promote and develop applied imagination in individuals, organizations and communities confronting real-world challenges. Please give Victoria your full support as she transitions into her new role. To contact Victoria, email her at:
vcliche@creativeeducationfoundation.org
CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL BOARD MEETING
With a great deal of planning, excitement and anticipation 12 of CEF’s Board of Trustees met in Paris for the first CEF board meeting off the North American continent. Aided by our European hosts and facilitators, CEF board members from the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa explored how CEF might expand its international reach and enhance its relationships with creativity organizations in other countries. We discovered nuances of cultural differences within these countries, learned what’s happening in the creativity practitioner communities and discovered how creativity education is being presented in the different European countries. Seven countries were represented: France, Ireland, Italy, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain. We’ve already begun exploring our 2006 meeting on another continent and look forward to continuing to enrich the international components of CEF and its programs.
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We are looking forward to 2006 with a great deal of excitement for this organization. We hope to see you all at the Creative Problem Solving Institute 2006 in Chicago from June 25 to 30, 2006. In the meantime, on behalf of the CEF Board, we wish you and yours the warmest of holiday greetings.
Creatively,
Hedria Lunken
David Magellan Horth
Co-Presidents
Creative Education Foundation
For more information, contact the Creative Education Foundation:
www.CreativeEducationFoundation.org
contact@CreativeEducationFoundation.org
Phone: +1.413.559.6614
