About Pamela
PAMELA MEYER, Ph.D. draws on more than fifteen years of organizational development experience and the latest research to support clients who want to create dynamic workspaces for innovating, learning and changing. She works with organizations worldwide using the improvisation strategies she learned in her years building creative teams in the professional theater. Today she combines innovative strategies from artistic collaboration with cutting edge management research and practice to help her clients work at the top of their creative, intellectual and energetic capacity.
Pamela is the author of three books on creativity and innovation, Permission: A Guide to Generating More Ideas, Being More of Yourself and Having More Fun at Work (Playspace Press, 2011), From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement (Jossey-Bass, 2010) and Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles to Transform the Way You Work (McGraw/Contemporary, 2000), and has contributed two chapters to edited books on transformative learning, as well as numerous articles and papers.
Pamela received her doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University and holds Master of Arts degrees from Antioch University and Fielding Graduate University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University's School for Theatre Arts. In addition to her work with organizations, She teaches courses in business creativity, improvisation and organization theory at DePaul University, where she is director of the Center to Advance Education for Adults and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Creativity and Innovation, part of the College of Commerce and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Press

The Provocative Board Room: Review and reflection on value of playspace for non-profit boards.
Blog post, January 2011

From Workplace to Playspace: Linking Employee Engagement to Patient Satisfaction and Safety
Article, November 2010

Grand Designs: How investigating in an imaginative workspace can pay dividends in the long term (Features interview with Pamela Meyer)
Article, November 2010

For Threadless, Loose Fits: Feature Article on Bringing Playspace to Life for Employee Engagement and Innovation
Article, September 2010

Don Bushnell Reviews Workplace to Playspace for OD Network.
Book Review, Summer 2010


Author Pamela Meyer Discusses Improving Productivity With Play
Interview, August 2010
Office Transformations: From Workplace to Playspace
Review, June 2010
‘Playspace’ Drives Employee Engagement, Productivity
Article, July 2010

Marshmallow Dodge Ball and Making Work Fun: Feature article on the business value of playspace
Article, June 2010

Jossey-Bass: Interview with the author
May 2010

Pamela Meyer on Voice America Business: Making peace with money with Laurie LaMantia
May 11, 2010

HumanResourcesIQ: From Workplace to Playspace Book Review
April 21, 2010
PRWeb: "Book Launch -- From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement,"
April 5, 2010

CIO Magazine Book Placement
April 2010

Fielding FAN Mail: "Alumni, Pamela Meyer, Publishes New Book,"
April 2010

CW Philadelphia: "The Business Case for Playspace"
March 23, 2010

DePaul University Alumni Newsletter: "Sharing Knowledge in Real World Settings"
February 2010
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