IMAGINE THE POWER TO CREATE A FUTURE YOU WANT TO SEE.
Steve Pozel’s skills as an innovation strategist and expert facilitator stem from his decades of research and work in creativity, design-led innovation and leadership development. He equips individuals and teams with rigorous tools and then guides them to discover new solutions and find new ways to innovate.
As a creative director, Steve produces major projects and special programs for leading cultural organisations around the world.
WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN
INNOVATION STRATEGY, CREATIVITY & THE CONTEMPLATIVE
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INNOVATION STRATEGY
Steve delivers both learning and project results by utilising design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies. He provides coaching to embed key capabilities and mindsets for innovation, while challenging team assumptions and status quo behaviours. Steve provides the tools leaders need to become more innovative thinkers and uncover the opportunities that lead to transformative outcomes. He brings different approaches together in a range of tailored innovation labs and sprints that build staff capability and engagement.
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CREATIVE
As a Creative Director of several major cultural organisations in Canada and Australia, Steve has produced creative programs throughout Asia, Europe and North America. He has been featured as a guest speaker and facilitator in the Brisbane Arts Festival, London, Beijing & Melbourne design festivals, and VIVID Ideas. Since 2016, Steve has developed a range of pioneering interpretative programs featured at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Royal Botanic Garden and the Sydney Opera House.
ACROSS THE INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE & CONTEMPLATIVE
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INNOVATIVE: Australian Design Centre
As CEO and Creative Director (2000 - 2015) of Australia’s most progressive centre for design, Steve helped establish an international reputation for innovation and excellence in exhibitions, touring, digital content, publishing, learning and outreach programs at the ADC.
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INNOVATIVE & CREATIVE: INDIGENOUS PROJECTS
Since 2000, Steve has worked with Indigenous artists, designers & curators to produce major projects, including several creative placemaking initiatives for public spaces (Barangaroo, Sydney 2017-2019) and producing innovative exhibitions through the Australian Design Centre (2000-2015) for public galleries and museums, presented across Australia and internationally.
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CREATIVE & THE CONTEMPLATIVE: VIVID FESTIVAL
Steve’s innovative and experiential programs have been curated into the VIVID Ideas Festival for 3-years running (2022/23/24). Collaborating with a wide-range of guest facilitators, Steve has created sessions that bring contemplative practices, slow looking and deep listening to be experienced through art, architecture and within nature.
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CREATIVE & THE CONTEMPLATIVE: Art of Deep Looking
AoDL is a platform providing access to programs, workshops and virtual opportunities for exploring the mindful and contemplative experience of art, architecture, and nature. Utilising frameworks and tools, from wisdom traditions thousands of years old, to help us concentrate on the present moment with clarity and precision.
ILLUME art mindfully
primary project across 2024 - 2025
CREATIVE & THE CONTEMPLATIVE
The ILLUME art mindfully App provides guided mindful moments to illuminate how we might connect deeply with a work of art. The App prototype features museums and galleries from around the world including MoMA, NYC; National Gallery, London; Uffizi Gallery, Florence; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; and Sydney’s Art Gallery of NSW.
The App provides guided sessions alongside the works by artists such as Kandinsky, Vermeer, Artemisia, Caravaggio, Hokusai, van Gogh, Modigliani, Manet, Hilma af Klint, Mondrian, Malevich, Morisot & Cézanne.
The App was created for use while visiting a museum or at home on your tablet or desktop computer, looks to bring greater awareness to what one is seeing, what one is sensing and feeling when experiencing an artwork. ILLUME uses mindfulness based approaches and a range of contemplative practices to build a deeper connection with art.
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Located on Darug and Gundungurra Country
Steve Pozel Projects is based in Australia, within the Blue Mountains area just outside of Sydney, in the town of Mount Victoria.
Steve Pozel Projects is proud to be located within the Country of Darug and Gundungurra People.
I acknowledge and pay my respect to the Traditional Custodians the Darug and Gundungurra People, and to Elders past and present.
For Darug and Gundungurra People, Ngurra (Country) takes in everything within physical, cultural and spiritual landscape - the landforms, waters, air, trees, rocks, plants, animals, foods, medicines, minerals, stories and special places. It includes cultural practice, kinship, knowledge, songs, stories and art, as well as spiritual beings, and people: past, present and future.
I recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture as the oldest continuing culture in the world. I celebrate in the diversity of language, culture, custom, ceremony and knowledge (Lore) of First Peoples as Traditional Owners, custodians and communities with an ongoing connection across land, sea and waterways.
I also acknowledge that the lands on which I live and work are unceded – always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land.