About Us
We have unrivalled experience working with the creative industries and training creativity with companies including 100’s of leading PR, design, creative and research.
Creative training for over 200+ companies worldwide
We are specialists
The top 3 skills for the future of jobs, right now, according to the World Economic Forum are the areas we know best!
Creative Thinking
The world is not divided into creative ‘haves’ and ‘have nots. Our creativity courses will help develop your people in this essential skill.
Problem solving
Critical thinking
Creative ideas need critical reasoning to see the light of day – take your raw materials and shape them into reality. Think of it as imaganation + maths.
Our Story
Claire’s MSc in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership informed her understanding that creativity varies widely among individuals. We all have personal and cognitive preferences, life experiences, differing educations and upbringings, cultural contexts and working environments that all have a bearing on our approach. Her best-selling book, In Your Creative Element, combines academic research and her personal experiences.
We have developed the team to include planners, a mindset coach, writers, performers and coaches and are proud to work with some amazing companies and brands to help them to develop the creative skills of their people, and develop creative leadership teams.
Our philosophy is that everyone can be creative and that confidence and collaboration are key to personal and team high performance. The world needs more people who can challenge the status quo and ask great questions and there are processes and models that can support ANYONE to do this effectively.
Now Go Create also mentors up and coming talent and supports charities pro-bono.
Meet the people that make it all possible
Our team includes creative directors, leadership experts, strategists, coaches, innovation experts, journalists and professional storytellers. This diverse creative talent brings different perspectives to our training, making it fun, interactive and effective.
Claire Bridges
Claire is a world-leading creative expert, trainer & author.
Claire is one of only a handful of people globally to hold an MSc in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership.
Claire is part of the training faculty at the Cannes Lions School / Festival of Creativity. She is in demand as a university lecturer and for Keynote speeches on all things creative.
Anahita Milligan
Anahita has a media planning background at Board Level, working for PHD and Universal McCann. At Manning Gottlieb OMD she worked in communications planning for PlayStation, winning a Campaign Media Award as well as heading up the COI team.
She established Manning Gottlieb OMD’s creative problem solving unit training creativity as well as running idea generation sessions for household name clients.
Lucy Francis
Lucy is likely to be your first point of call at Now Go Create. She looks after all our clients, bookings and logistics and knows all there is to know about all things creative! She can help you with costs, course duration and more detail on our course content should you need it.
Email: lucy@nowgocreate.co.uk
Max Dickins
Author, screenwriter and a professional storyteller who shares his hard won insights into the craft of storytelling, learnt at the coal face on stages worldwide.
Max runs our storytelling and improv workshops.
Author of best-selling book Billy No Mates, Max’s workshops are highly immersive and engaging, with 5 star reviews!
Octavia Gilmore
A self-proclaimed storytelling shapeshifter – Octavia acts, improvises, writes, directs, produces, coaches and writes. She coaches our storytelling and presentation ninja workshops to help people confidently share their messages and make an impact.
She is an exceptional communicator and will help you to be too.
Kerri Hollick
An exceptional facilitator Kerri uses her experience, natural curiosity and creative skills to enable teams to identify their vision, take a deep dive into how to drive this forward and maintain momentum.
Kerri is a skilled coach with a natural style that builds trust, creates clarity, identifies direction and promotes knowledge and growth.
James Mallinson
James understands the demands of the business environment, which allows him to work effectively and at pace.
Matthew Burgess
Matthew is a creative leadership coach specialising in helping individuals and organisations cultivate the mindsets, skills, awarenesses and behaviours that fuel effective creative work.
Matthew comes from a multidisciplinary creative career spanning TV, journalism and music with 12 years at the Discovery Channel in innovation.
What does it take to be creative in business? That’s the question Now Go Create Founder Claire Bridges set out to answer when she wrote In Your Creative Element, the playbook for budding creatives and leaders. This best-seller covers inspiration and practical guidance and exercises to unlock creativity in everyone. Published by Kogan Page, this is an original work on one of the hottest industry topics. Written by a female Creative Director who has made it her business to unpick how and why creative ideas are born, develop and survive or die.
Read it, love it, do it!
“Creative thinking seems to have been regarded as one of the dark arts by many senior managers. This book and Now Go Create’s approach is to demystify creativity. Your own creative instincts can be honed and mastered using the nuggets of insight. Read it, love it, do it!” Arif Haq
Creativity is a strategic issue
“I honestly can’t fault this book. Creativity is misunderstood by many. But what enlightened CEO’s realise is that creativity is not an optional extra. It’s a strategic issue. The books and Now Go Create’s courses provide accessible, down to earth practical tools to unlock creative potential.” Stuart Yeardsley, Creative Director, Zeno
A toolkit to scale creativity
“Like all of Now Go Create’s courses, the book offers a great toolkit for amangaing creativity and building creative thinking systematically into an organisation and its culture. The book proves that creativity can truly add value to the bottom line and retain your best talent.” Greg James, Global Chief Transformation Officer, Havas Media
Our Partnerships
Our Specialisms
Creative Thinking
The ability to think creatively to tackle challenges and create opportunities has never been more crucial. Innovate or die.
How To Be A Creative Ninja is our signature creativity training course taken by more than 30,000 people. Choose from a live, interactive webinar where you'll learn creativity tools, or book us for an in-depth face-to-face workshop.
Problem Solving
Our courses are built on years of research and evidence-backed tools that make a difference. Training is practical, hands-on, and immediately applicable to real-world business problems.
Problem-solving is a key skill that can be developed and honed. Try our SCAMPER workshop, a simple and highly effective framework to help systematically trigger fresh thinking to your challenge or problem.
Critical Thinking
Consider the key questions, amass relevant information, think differently and make a well-reasoned argument.
Our How To Be A Strategy Ninja course will help you to do just that with frameworks and tools designed to demystify how to develop creative strategy.
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Use the 50 different triggers as inspiration to help you prep for a group creative session or to generate ideas by yourself. Stimulate your imagination and get a fresh perspective on your challenge.
Our training courses
Employers now consider creative thinking to be a core capability, and for brand and agency teams it's essential. The good news is that thinking more creatively is a learnable skill! We've trained thousands of people in practical ways to improve the way they think and solve problems – explore our courses below:
Inspired!
Now Go Create’s training was invaluable!
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do your courses cost?
Please contact lucy to find out our prices. It depends on where you are based, how many people you’d like to train and what programme you choose. No other training company has our credentials or experience – but we always benchmark our prices and value for money is guaranteed. Our open courses start at £99 + VAT for individuals and our e-learning course start at just £30+ VAT.
How many people can attend an in-house course?
An open course usually has a ceiling of 16 delegates. In-house courses can be tailored to suit the team. We’ve worked with teams of 4 up to 250! Just ask us.
Where are the courses held?
To keep costs down we usually come and deliver this workshop at your office or workspace. If you want to get offsite and have the budget, we love Wallace Space’s individual and creative training spaces, all over central London. We travel all over the UK and abroad to deliver our workshops. We can also of course deliver via Zoom and have current clients in APAC and North America.
Do you have any creativity training that is not classroom-based?
Yes! We’re all familiar with the fact that we have great ideas when we’ve stopped thinking about the problem and gone off and done something else.
So we’ve created the Creative Safari – a way to take a little time out from your day-to-day for deliberate creative thought. It’s our take on a dérive: problem-solving and learning by walking about in a group, talking, watching, getting lost and wandering – a dérive in French literally means “drifting”. It is a technique of getting lost in a city and allowing your unconscious mind time to problem-solve.
This immersive experience encourages you to look up and out and use the city for inspiration. We can tailor the Safari to your challenge if you’d prefer a little more direction – we’ve been to The Design Museum, Borough Market, The Tate as well as specialist retail stores and the streets of London, Antwerp & Lisbon. Contact us for details.
What are your academic credentials?
Our founder Claire Bridges was awarded an MSc in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership from City University London in March 2015 (now Bayes). Claire is one of only a handful of people in the world to hold this qualification, and the only person in the UK PR industry. The degree brings together Claire’s experience at the professional creative sharp-end along with academic rigour and the latest thinking to creativity in business.
Claire is proud to be on the advisory board for the Centre for Creative Studies at Bayes Business School and is available as a guest lecturer in creativity.
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