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Creative Learning Solutions' helps organizations become more creative and productive. Our goal is to create workplaces and classrooms that are full of life, passion, joy, and commitment, where people look forward to getting up each day and meeting challenges that matter to them. We are a training and consulting firm that teaches effective people skills for the workplace. A woman-owned business, we offer "Fortune 500" quality training and consulting at reasonable prices. Creative Learning Solutions helps create workplaces that work -- successfully responding to all types of business, management, supervisor, team, and employee needs. Areas of expertise include

Creative, Agile Decision-Making
Practice Field for Business Teams
Communications, Conflict Management, and Negotiation Skills
• Interactive Learning, Problem-Based Learning, and Action Learning
• Managing and Implementing Diversity Issues
• Team Building and Work Group Development
• Leadership and Organizational Development
• Customer Service
• Management and Supervisory Skills
• International Cross-Cultural Business Skills
• Meeting and Retreat Facilitation

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sheella Mierson is founder and president of Creative Learning Solutions, Inc. With over twenty years of practical experience as a trainer, consultant and educator, she focuses her company on specific people skills needed for leadership and organizational development, team-building, diversity and group problem solving. She specializes in creating workplace environments that foster learning and risk-taking and that sustain positive change.

Dr. Mierson holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Michigan. During her career as a scientist, she realized that people skills affect outcomes as much as scientific or technical skills. This led her to create successful training and consulting services for businesses, non-profits, educators and organizations. Read more below about Dr. Mierson's commentary on her personal journey to found Creative Learning Solutions, Inc.

She has worked with clients across both North and South America including H.D. Lee, Delaware State Police Academy, JPMorganChase, Pfizer, PMA Insurance Group, Stanley Steemer, Delaware Humanities Forum, Clemson University, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies.

Creative Learning Solutions has a network of associates with whom we partner for specific projects.

A PERSONAL JOURNEY

Before founding Creative Learning Solutions, I saw magic happening before my eyes when I taught physiology in a university. I used Problem-Based Learning, an extraordinary teaching method in which students work in groups to solve real world problems. Two examples come to mind of the magic of people working collaboratively on questions that matter to them. A 21-year old student, who had been both a class participant and a small group facilitator, told me what she learned from that experience. She said she learned how to ask for what she wants without fear of offending someone, and that this changed her relationship with her boyfriend. Would that I had that skill at that age!

In the second example, a group of students spent hours determined to understand the hormonal regulation of the female reproductive cycle, beyond memorizing a couple of graphs from their textbooks. They covered the blackboard with colored graphs and arrows, and cheered out loud when all the pieces fit into place. They knew that no exam question would cover anything like the detail they were learning, and that didn't matter to them. These were premed students, who traditionally are often preoccupied with grades! They were so pleased with themselves that they took themselves out to dinner that week to celebrate their accomplishment. I saw in these students the same joy and enthusiasm for learning and the same connectedness with others that I see in a two-year old's face. I have a picture in my mind of people working together with that spirit in corporate teams, and in educational settings at all levels. It is a spirit in which anything is possible. I left my position at the university and started my own business to spread that sense of possibility in other arenas.

Since making this change, I continue to marvel at the ways people apply what they learn in our programs. I think of the man who learned in a workshop on communication skills to listen to customers; he also learned to listen to his teenage son, and told me delightedly that now his son talks to him and trusts him. I think of the manager who learned a problem-solving method in a team development training. She decided to use it often with her team members because she found that it enabled her to handle things more easily and productively and with less stress. Then she told me of how she uses it to solve problems collaboratively with her children rather than taking adversarial positions. Once people learn positive skills of communication, handling conflict, working in teams, and leadership, they use the skills everywhere. Seeing those changes is what has me excited to start each day.

Sheella Mierson, Ph.D.

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