Michael Kollwitz is a speaker and artist with a unique expertise: he combines creative principles with his corporate sales experience to teach audiences how to become “Problem-Solving Artists.” Michael brings a unique perspective with a twenty-year history in corporate sales and another twenty years as an award-winning recording artist. He believes that everyone, whether in teams or as individuals, has the potential to tap into their inner creativity and become problem-solving artists.
Michael’s journey is a testament to his problem-solving skills. As a young man, he took on the challenge of learning a revolutionary new instrument from the inventor himself. Despite numerous obstacles, he carved out a successful career playing an instrument unfamiliar to most. His hundreds of corporate performances, Billboard-charting recordings, and a book chronicling his career journey, “Stick With It,” are all products of his creative problem-solving abilities.
He combines live music on the Chapman Stick® with humor and audience engagement to teach a new mindset for creative problem-solving to teams and individuals who are interested in experiencing continuous improvement, and they’ll LOVE the experience of musical illustrations using The Stick as an example of creative problem-solving.
