Built on Creative Intelligence
Creativity is a strategic advantage.
It expands what we can see, imagine, and make possible. It helps us connect ideas, recognize opportunities, adapt to change, and find new ways forward.
The more we understand how our creativity works, the more deliberately we can use it.
Professionally Creative helps artists, professionals, leaders, and teams develop their creative intelligence and put it to work.
Creativity changes what is possible.
Creative intelligence helps us look beyond the obvious.
We use it to question assumptions, recognize patterns, connect things that don't normally belong together, experiment with new ideas, and respond when circumstances change.
It gives us more ways into a problem and more ways out of one.
That matters in the studio. It matters in business. It matters when leading people, building organizations, changing careers, developing ideas, and making decisions about what comes next.
Creativity isn't reserved for people who call themselves creative.
It's part of how we think.
And we can get better at using it.
Put your creative intelligence to work.
I work with people who want to understand their creative process and use it with greater intention. That might mean getting a stalled project moving, strengthening a creative practice, helping a team approach a difficult problem differently, or working through an idea that doesn't have an obvious answer yet.
The work begins with what is actually in front of you. We look closely, ask better questions, try things, pay attention to what happens, and use what we learn to determine what comes next.
Who I am
I'm Jacob Breeden, an artist, designer, educator, and creative strategist. For more than 25 years, my work has moved through studios, museums, businesses, nonprofits, classrooms, galleries, public projects, and organizations.
I've made sculpture and furniture, designed exhibitions and spaces, built businesses and organizations, taught creative practice, led teams, and helped people turn ideas into things that exist in the world. Through all of it, I've learned how to work inside uncertainty, follow good questions, recognize when an idea has energy, experiment without knowing the outcome, and keep moving when the work changes direction.
That's the experience I bring to Professionally Creative.
Let's Talk
Have a project, problem, idea, or creative practice you'd like to work on?
Tell me a little about what you're doing, where you are in the process, and what brought you here. You don't need to have it all figured out. That's often the reason to start a conversation.
I'll get back to you and we'll see where it goes.