Join us for our FIRST Collider SPARK Series featuring Natalie Nixon.

Natalie Nixon is a creativity strategist and president of Figure 8 Thinking. She advises and emboldens leaders to transform their businesses through creativity and foresight. She is a regular contributor to Inc. and the editor of Strategic Design Thinking. She is a global speaker whose roster includes TEDxPhiladelphia, Cusp Conference, the Business Innovation Factory, SEB Group, 360 Possibles, CreativeMornings, the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design, the European Innovation Academy, and the Mayo Clinic's Transform conference. Nixon holds a Ph.D. in design management, an MS in global textile marketing, and a BA (cum laude) in anthropology and Africana studies.

She is the author of "The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work."

Collider Spark is a speaker series intended to create sparks of creativity and inspiration in the Rochester entrepreneurial ecosystem. Collider Spark is a program of Collider, a Rochester-based 501(c)(3) dedicated to creating an inclusive, diverse, and healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem.