New creative team building program offered by Ideas With Merritt explores the secret power of Beauty as a source of inspiration and innovation. This slide summary shows the connection between our sense of beauty and purpose. The program is designed for creative teams engaged in innovation.

1. Beauty &
Purpose
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Love
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ReallyReally

3. What
this takes:
Leaders of innovation
perceive real needs and create the
means to meet those needs.
In the process they transform
the world and themselves.
Ideas With Merritt 1995

4. Awakenintrinsic motivation, be purpose
driven,and emotionally engaged.
Access to different modes of knowing
such as: felt sense, awareness, intuition.
Deep seeing beyond surface
assumptionsand first right answers.
Making sense of complex, ambiguous
and sometimes contradictory data.

5. Intellect
Openness

6. Create Growth
Grounded Growth
For an idea to succeed it
must be provoking
enough to attract and
sustain attention, familiar
enough to relate to past
experience and new
enough to add value now.
FAMILIAR FRESH
FIT
Grounded
Growth
Context

7. Hit the high note!
Innovation comes from the
space where head and heart
agree on what is
beautiful and true.
Innovation is Unique
Revitalize inspiration and meaning in your work.
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Personal Passion
Professional Purpose
TIME TO SHINE!!!
Courage
Engagement
Motivation

8. Leading a meaningful
life.
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Does beauty matter?

10. • Rekindles the human
imagination
• Source of inspiration
and motivation to
create
• Offers model to learn
from and translate
Why Beauty Matters

11. Let the beauty you love be what you do. Rumi
Pay attention to what speaks to you.
What if...
what makes you feel most awake
and alive in nature and art, also
makes you feel most awake and
alive at work.

12. AUTYBE
Connect
Creative SelfCollect
Experiences
of Beauty
Purpose
Awaken
Create
Growth
Anesthesia=Asleep
Aesthetic= Awake
Peak
Experience
Activate
Purpose
Sense of Beauty and Sense of Purpose

13. Secret Power of Beauty
Sense of Beauty and Sense of Purpose
What are you here to contribute &
1. Discover the
pattern of
beauty you
resonate with
most strongly.
2. Explore how
you can bring
that pattern of
beauty to life
through your
work.

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Contact me for information
about Beauty and Purpose
workshops when you want to:
Increase employee engagement.
Inspire creativity and innovation.
Invite future leaders to step forward.
Suzanne Merritt
Ideaswithmerritt@mac.com