Biography of Christopher Springmann

 In his presentation "The Creativity Culture," this award-winning business photographer uses these portraits to paint word pictures of passion and perseverance, revealing powerful insights into facing life's challenges. He customizes his speeches, showing audiences how to make these same qualities work for them in their specific work environment.

With his words and photographs, he dramatically illustrates his messages about such topics as passion for change and new ideas; inspiring and rewarding creative achievements in co-workers; and sharing intellectual property and knowledge for both corporate and personal growth.

During his presentations, Springmann uses his images of legendary figures like Intel's Chairman Andy Grove, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and Breast Cancer Research Stamp creator Dr. Ernie Bodai - ands scores of "real people" in business - to weave an inspired, memorable message about accessing your individual creativity for personal and professional enhancement. He accomplishes this by helping his audience to:

Find out how passion, partnership, and teamwork combine to build a "Creativity Culture" that delivers powerful results.
Discover the way in which creative strategies on the job solve everyday challenges better, faster, and more efficiently.
Learn to listen, then focus your vision and intuition, to work efficiently
Realize that you can believe in yourself as the driving force that delivers achievement
Enthusiastically model the applied creativity of the "real heroes" American business, the arts, medicine, and sports
"Creativity calibrates the real value of your thinking, " Springmann says. "It's your intellectual property, the engine of your professional future, contributing core value to your company and your peers. Thinking and working creatively, to deal effectively with life's ambiguities, is your greatest personal and business asset."

An internationally recognized portrait photographer, Springmann regularly publishes his work in corporate publications for Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Peat, Marwick, as well as in such leading magazines as Time, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian.

"Christopher Springmann's portraiture achieves a delicate balance between the literal and the incongruous while maintaining a wry and witty sense of humor so lacking in visual representations of Corporate America. Springmann is an unusually tactful and persuasive artist with his subjects."
Communication Arts Magazine