Creative Caffeine

By Dr Amy Climer (Page Two Books, 2025)

In the hopeful calm of early 2020, Celia and I found ourselves nervously clicking “Join Zoom Meeting” on a video call that felt a little surreal.

On the other side of the screen was Dr Amy Climer, someone whose voice had been a steady companion on our own creative journey. We’d spent hours soaking up her Deliberate Creative podcast, scribbling down insights and building the scaffolding for what would become Creativity Wake-Up. Her way of explaining creativity, grounded, practical, and refreshingly unpretentious, had lit a fire under us.

Now here she was, live and in full colour (with a colour-coded bookshelf behind her… a real one, I believe!), graciously chatting with us about her coaching approach and the nuts and bolts of leading creativity.

That conversation helped us see a new path forward not just for our work, but for how creativity could live and breathe in teams. Since then, we’ve referred many times to our now marked-up copies of ...