About Us

Our Purpose and Vision

Why do we exist?

The purpose of Creative People Solutions (CPS) is to help people discover their potential.

The vision of CPS is to be a catalyst for genuine attitude and behaviour change that leads to lasting results for individuals, teams and organisations. We achieve this through our integrated research, training, coaching, research and consulting solutions.

CPS started in 2008 and has established branches and teams in Sydney (Australia), Cairo (Egypt), Oslo (Norway), Salalah (Oman) and Aden (Yemen) with a wide range of partner organizations around the world. Within a decade of starting with a corporate team building session to build trust, CPS is honoured to have been trusted to help over 3000 corporate & NGO leaders and 18,000 youth around the world discover their potential.

Our Values

We seek to live and breathe our core CPS values in everything we do:
Passion for people development – leading to excellence, “we do it from the heart”.
Servant Leadership – inspiring with humility, “we put others before ourselves”.
Team Unity – in and through diversity, “we are one body with many parts”.
Creativity – which leads to innovation and transformation, “helping people discover solutions for themselves”.
Trust – treating others as we want to be treated, “every interaction is a moment of trust”.
Integrity – We do what we say and say what we do, “even when no-one is watching”.

Our Approach

At the heart of the unique CPS training approach is the adult educational model of experiential (practical) learning, which is a facilitated four step process of experience, reflection, theory and application that is:

Learner centred – learners discover many things about themselves and their teammates.
Practical, challenging and fun – serving all ages, levels and learning styles.
Solution focused – Participants start to discover solutions to their own existing problems.
Focused on long term attitude and behaviour change – leading to effective personal, team and community results.

At the heart of the unique CPS training approach is the adult educational model of experiential (practical) learning, which is a facilitated four step process of experience, reflection, theory and application that is:

Learner centred – learners discover many things about themselves and their teammates.
Practical, challenging and fun – serving all ages, levels and learning styles.
Solution focused – Participants start to discover solutions to their own existing problems.
Focused on long term attitude and behaviour change – leading to effective personal, team and community results.

Our Founding Team

With a compelling vision to help people discover their potential in one of the most challenging parts of the world, CPS was founded by 3 very different people, simply playing to their strengths.

In doing so, we discovered the wisdom of an ancient Creative People Solution that the Greek philosopher Aristotle talked about over 2000 years ago. Aristotle said there are three distinct types of knowledge needed to solve problems.

  • Episteme (Head)
  • Techne (Hands)
  • Phronesis (heart)

This perfectly describes the different strengths that each of the CPS founders brought to the team.  We each see the world very differently – and it is through our diversity of complementary gifts and skills that we have experienced true unity as one team.

Mike is the ‘Episteme’ of CPS – our thinking ‘ideas man’! He integrates the best global thinking with over 20 years management experience and boundless creativity, energy and agility. Mike now serves as the CPS International Director of Coaching and Consulting Solutions.
Mike Pola
Director of Coaching and Consulting
Ezzat is the ‘Phronesis’ of CPS – our beating heart! As an experienced international facilitator, Ezzat has the unique ability to inspire and touch the heart of any person, of any age, in any level of society, in any culture. Ezzat now serves as the CPS International Director of Training Solutions.
Ezzat Kamal
Director of Training
David is the ‘Techne’ of CPS – our practical and productive hands! David thrives in finding practical solutions to the most challenging of problems and is able to refine complex ideas into simple solutions. David now serves as the CPS International Director of Research Solutions.
David
David Hawley
Director of Research