Disrupt Your Normal
Master Class
BEST MindLab is proud to present our Master Class showcasing innovative insights and wisdom from global thought leaders specializing in creativity, brain science, human productivity, and much more! We will continue to grow and expand our list of enlightened thinkers, providing you with demonstrated proof that thinking differently, clearly, and without intellectual inhibitions, is an impactful and attainable, world changing skill.
BEST MindLab Lead Scholar in Residence (Professor of Psychology Southern Oregon University). Dr. Runco is a leading creativity scholar who is active in empirical research and has published cognitive, economic, genetic, historical, developmental, and educational books and articles on the topic. To help people fulfill their capacity for creativity, he has devised a battery of tests that measures creative potential and performance. He teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes on creativity and innovation, and once each year he organizes an international creativity conference.
BML Scholar (Paris France, Professor of Psychology Chez Université Paris Descartes). Dr. Lubart is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Paris Descartes, France. His research focuses on creativity, with emphasis on individual differences, measures of creative potential, the creative process and creative environment. He is author/ co-author of books and scientific articles on creativity and its development, as well as measures of creative potential (EPoC battery to evaluate children and adolescents, creative profiler for adults). Dr. Lubart has led several large-scale quantitative research projects concerning creative individuals, creative processes and creative environments.
Collaboration Teamwork and Creativity
Myths and Preconceptions about Creativity and Critical Thinking
BEST MindLab Scholar – Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Mims, Ph.D., M.S. is an American psychologist, insights consultant, creativity, innovation and leadership expert, and qualitative researcher. He holds a doctorate in humanistic psychology and a masters in rehabilitation counseling. He is the current Operations Lead at The Music & Expressive Arts Center of Oklahoma, an organization focused on facilitating training and education at the intersections of Music and Mental Wellness.
BEST MindLab Scholar (Germany & United States, Professor, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts). Thomas Vogel is a teacher, advisor and entrepreneur. His research focuses on the nature of creativity, creative thinking and creative process. He is the author of Breakthrough Thinking – A Guide to Creative Thinking and Idea Generation (HOW Books), and the director and producer of YesNoMaybe, a film about how students can learn and practice creativity, creative thinking and problem solving as a skill. Vogel is also a co-founder of mediaman, an international digital agency headquartered in Germany, with offices in Boston and Shanghai, and Next Mobility Labs, a startup studio that builds companies that shape modern mobility. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of Beheard.World, an organization that uses film, performing arts and advocacy campaigns to give people and communities transformative ways to be seen and heard; and he is an advisor to FindOurView, a smart engagement platform driven by human and machine collective intelligence.