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Caitlan Maggs
Build creative capacity and innovation across teams with Caitlan Maggs, former Cirque du Soleil Artistic Director. Caitlan works with organisations to develop creativity under pressure, unite diverse teams, and build resilience through creative thinking, drawing on 20 years shaping iconic global productions.
Caitlan Maggs spent 20 years as Artistic Director at Cirque du Soleil, where she helped shape nearly every new show the world's largest contemporary circus produced.
As one of only a handful of experts to contribute at the highest level across so many iconic Cirque productions, Caitlan led artistic coaching for world-class athletes, including Olympians, transforming them into performing artists. She is the author of the forthcoming book Inside the CIRQUE of Creativity and Creative Director of CrEaTiVe TeAmS, through which she delivers workshops and talks internationally.
Caitlan's two decades inside one of the most creatively demanding environments on earth gave her a practical understanding of how creativity functions under pressure. She shows organisations how to build creative capacity across teams, drawing on methods she used to unite performers from over 50 countries who spoke different languages and brought vastly different perspectives. Her approach treats creativity not as an innate gift but as a broad skillset anyone can develop and apply, whether in boardrooms, classrooms, or operating theatres.
Audiences leave her sessions with concrete tools for practising creativity daily, strategies for turning diverse viewpoints into original solutions, and a framework for building resilience through creative thinking. Her stories from behind the curtain at Cirque make these lessons vivid and memorable.
Book Caitlan to give your audience the creative edge that powered one of the world's most inventive companies.
Caitlan spent two decades as Artistic Director at Cirque du Soleil, where she developed proven methods for building creative capacity across multicultural teams under intense commercial pressure. Her framework translates directly to organisations needing to unlock innovation and turn diverse perspectives into competitive advantage.
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Caitlan Maggs draws on two decades as Artistic Director at Cirque du Soleil to illustrate how creativity functions under pressure, using behind-the-scenes accounts from productions to anchor practical frameworks. She presents creativity as a learnable skillset, delivering concrete tools and strategies that audiences can apply directly to their own working contexts.
Caitlan Maggs speaks on building creative capacity in teams, leading diverse and multilingual workforces, and developing creativity as a practical skillset applicable across industries. She spent 20 years as Artistic Director at Cirque du Soleil, where she shaped productions involving performers from over 50 countries and led artistic coaching for Olympians transitioning into performing artists.
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