Ian Prinsloo

Biography

Ian Prinsloo is a creative inquiry facilitator; his work develops the relational quality of groups and uses that inter-personal dynamic as the platform for developing innovative solutions to challenges.

Ian worked with Reos Partners as a senior consultant, leading global projects for them. He has also been on faculty with Leadership Development at the Banff Centre designing programs and facilitating custom work for a wide variety of clients.  The focus of this work was the capacity development of leaders to initiate collaborative processes that reframe change as an act of creation.  Ian is a regular lecturer at Kaospilot in Denmark where he instructs in Creative Process and Systems Innovation practice.

In his previous life Ian was an award-winning freelance theatre director, as well as Artistic Director at Theatre Calgary.  Ian is a published author on the development of the Ensemble Relationship, Metaphoric Thinking, and the Creative Process.

Ian holds a Master of Fine Arts (theatre studies) from the University of Calgary, is a past alumnae of Leadership Calgary and an accredited facilitator of the Immunity to Change process.  Connecting people to their inherent ability to create is at the centre of all of Ian’s work.