About Us

We transform organizations by connecting people to ideas, each other, and themselves for positive change toward inclusion. We increase positive communication, uncover the value of different perspectives, hold space for hard conversations, and nurture diverse teams.

The Creative Facilitations Team has been chosen with all forms of diversity in mind. We are sought after global experts who believe in learning something from everyone while making a positive impact. We are known for kindness, authenticity, empathy, optimism, ability to connect dots, and patience meeting people where they are. We adeptly work across cultures. We are warm, curious, caring, and loving, and our meaning is fulfilled when we connect people so they can thrive.

Some of the organizations we’ve had the honor of working with over the past 30 years:

Our History

We work globally with corporations, non-profit organizations, universities, and governments, and have done so for 30 years. We started by developing and leading youth trips and study abroad programs that changed lives. Research proved that adults learn best this way too, so we incorporated experiential activities and belonging-building adventures into employee training with much success.

After doing educational program development in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Africa, international aid in war-torn countries in the Middle East, and university teaching in Asia and the Americas, Big Tech came knocking and we began designing and facilitating learning and development courses. Areas of focus include: team communication, intercultural leadership development, inclusion, allyship, appreciation, and trauma-informed resilience.

n her early career, Creative Facilitations founder, Stephanie, discovered a skill for seeing what others could not yet see in the workplace, and learned she was great at training people to communicate more authentically and effectively, recognize patterns and opportunities for growth, and increase their sensitivity to cultural and interpersonal differences. She held many roles across fields and systems, from nonprofits and museums to academia and corporations.

Collectively, she lived abroad for a total of 10 years, and gained immersive experience in topics such as, experiential learning, intercultural communication, group dynamics, organizational psychology, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and game theory. Her dedication to her own growth and development in these areas enabled her to support people and institutions with increasingly nuanced problems and highly complex situations.

Stephanie founded Creative Facilitations to deepen her dedication to elevating and celebrating authentic communication, human connection, and positive impact. She has 30 years of experience as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, author, and professor working in over 40 countries on 6 continents.

Years later, after a few life-changing accidents, Stephanie has been navigating a new life as a disabled and neurodivergent woman with a service dog. The flexibility and creativity needed to live in her body, with her brain, are the same skills necessary to be more adaptable and resilient in a rapidly changing social and physical world. These are also the skills Stephanie looks for in staff and collaborators, setting clients up for success, no matter which member of the team they are paired with.

Stephanie earned her M.A. in Leadership, Education, and the Arts from Long Island University, a B.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan, and numerous certificates from the Intercultural Communication Institute (Teaming Across Difference, Training for International Transitions, Social Justice and Intercultural Communication in the Global Context) and the Rotary International Foundation (Peace and Conflict Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand).

Creative Facilitations is a Disability-owned & Woman-owned business. Being part of marginalized groups, our disabled, neurodiverse, multi-cultural lenses inform every aspect of our work; combining this with our global team’s diversity on 3 continents, we aim to further accessibility and belonging worldwide.