About Your Creative Fitness Facilitators

Larry Purdy has more than 25 years of experience as a professional educator. This includes 4 years as a lecturer in English Literature at Tokai University in Japan, 10 years as a regional training manager for EDS Japan, 10 years as the Director of Learning & Development for Citigroup Japan and now more than 1 year running his own consulting business: Eleven Doors Consulting focusing on executive and leadership development. He is a master facilitator, course designer, and creative disruptor. He has committed himself to a journey of lifelong learning and loves to share this passion with others. Together with Kristin Newton, he is also the founder of the Creativity Fitness Group, an organization designed to provide businesses and individuals with the opportunity to develop and exercise their creativity and mental agility … and to unlocking the infinite possibilities that the extraordinary structure of our minds offer us …

Here is a video interview with Larry talking about Leadership and Creativity training:

http://www.itv-asia.com/interview/larry-purdy

Kristin Newton is an artist and facilitator. She studied for 12 years under Betty Edwards, the author of “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. She holds a degree in Fine Art and created an art school in Tokyo, as well as exhibited her artwork, and taught workshops in a number of locations worldwide for a number of clients, including Ogilvy & Mather, SAP, AIG, UNITAR Hiroshima, Fuji Electric, MI Associates, Fuji Kasai, Shinsei Bank, Pro-Active Learning. Kristin has also given presentations at the International JASCD Conference in Tokyo as well as for Honda Motors Research and Development, the Minato International Association, Foreign Executive Women, Women in Finance, IVIS Open Seminar, and many more.

Larry and Kristin also work as Creative Consultants helping organizations apply creative thinking and creative processes to discover new business opportunities, untangle organizational logjams, crack creative impasses, and bring new inspiration to tired and failing routines.

Please contact us for more information on all of our programs and services