The 21st century is seeing dramatic shifts in the business environment. In order for organizations to adapt to these shifts, they must be more flexible and learning oriented. To thrive in this environment, organizational leaders must facilitate and build the capacity for learning throughout the organization. Organizational leadership is looking for employees to bring more than technical competencies or subject-matter expertise to their work; they are requiring specific learning-oriented competencies such as critical thinking, problem-solving, agility, adaptability, initiative, communication, and collaboration among others. To that end, business education is under heavy criticism for failure to produce the workforce needed to meet the demands of the 21st century. We set out to develop a conceptual teaching and learning model anchored in transformative and constructivist perspectives of learning that engages the whole learner in learning, reflective practice, and interactions with learning facilitators, other learning agents, and actors in a learning context.

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The demand for innovation within organizations is a worldwide concern. In order for innovation to occur, creativity must first be unleashed in the individual. Education is under heavy criticism for failure to produce the workforce needed to meet the innovation challenge. The solution lies in the human imagination.Many have tried to 'teach' creativity, which results in a prescriptive focus on tools and process, but has limited, if any, emotional engagement. Emotion is a necessary component as the creative drive is intrinsic -it originates from within. In order to increase innovation capacity in our organizations, we need to first increase creative capacity in individuals.Further, creativity is personal; so the student dictates the context of reflection and explores the belief system that motivates exploration of the creative force. This is a constructivist approach to learning that seeks to transform the learning experience by having the student engage with their own story.Grant, QScience Proceedings 2013.gic:6 2 pages of 13 What is my purpose?The demand for innovation within organizations is a worldwide concern. In order for innovation to occur, creativity must first be unleashed in the individual. Education is under heavy criticism for failure to produce the workforce needed to meet the innovation challenge. The solution lies in the human imagination.Many have tried to 'teach' creativity, which results in a prescriptive focus on tools and process, but has limited, if any, emotional engagement. Emotion is a necessary component as the creative drive is intrinsic -it originates from within. In order to increase innovation capacity in our organizations, we need to first increase creative capacity in individuals.Further, creativity is personal; so the student dictates the context of reflection and explores the belief system that motivates exploration of the creative force. This is a constructivist approach to learning that seeks to transform the learning experience by having the student engage with their own story.

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