Laura Delavie, M.A.
President and Chief Alchemist
Laura Delavie is an innovator and change agent who is rarely happy with the status quo. She has moved teams and organizations to think and act differently to deliver new and valuable solutions for more than 15 years. She enjoys practicing her own creativity by designing creative solutions for clients as well writing poetry, short stories and white papers and…making an occasional doodle.
Skilled in business / process improvement, facilitation, creative problem solving, creative, change and project leadership, experiential learning design and development and sales and marketing, Laura uses the breadth of her knowledge and experience to brew up the creative solutions that turn organizational “lead into gold”. She is the President and Chief Alchemist of ALCEMIS, LLC.
Laura has a M.A. degree in Change Leadership with a specialization in Organizational Development from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. Her B.A. degree in Philosophy and Communications is from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She has certifications or licenses in Creatrix™, Simplex and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®.
As a member of Heartland’s Thought Leader Gatherings, Laura explores the development of Evolutionary Leadership. Volunteering as a mentor for 8th grade girls as part of the Hope for Tomorrow program has been a rewarding experience. As Director of Marketing for the MN Organization Development Network (MNODN), she helped to lead the organization’s re-branding initiative.
Laura has presented or facilitated sessions on Building Innovative Capacity for TUG MN in 2008 in St. Paul, MN, Creatively Exploring the Power of LEGO® Serious Play® in Growing Your Business at the Women Entrepreneurs of MN Q3 2010 Event in Wayzata, MN, Exploring Challenges and Generating Big Ideas with LEGO® Serious Play® at the 2011 Organization Design Learning Conference in Wayzata, MN, Using the Creatrix® to Improve Innovative Behavior at CREA 2011 in Sestri Levante, Italy, Innovate Like an Artist™ at the Twin Cities Human Resource Association (TCHRA) 2011 Spring Conference in Edina, MN and Innovative Strategies for Sustained Results at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Summer Meeting 2011 in Denver, CO. She will be facilitating a session on Creating Value: Putting Creativity to Work at the Twin Cities’ American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) Fall 2011 Conference in St. Paul, MN.
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