For business leaders and managers, finding the key to creating a high-performing, innovative team can feel impossible. Most of the time, you’re too stressed, exhausted and depleted to do anything more than just get by. Or you might even secretly question your ability to ever be a great leader.

You’ve been a successful individual contributor at your company for years. Now you’re starting to feel like you need more. The logical step is to become a manager—taking on more responsibility, making more of an impact and getting higher compensation.

Let's face it: Digital marketing is complicated! With new platforms, technologies and "shiny objects” emerging every day, it's hard to know where to put your focus and what marketing efforts you should prioritize.

If you’ve got a new iPhone X or another type of advanced smartphone, you’ve got a powerful, professional-grade camera able to achieve the same kind of results that used to require a $10,000 investment. The problem is, most people aren’t familiar enough with their phone’s features to take full advantage of its photographic capabilities.

If you want complete control over the image you’re taking, you need to use multiple flashes. Mike Hagen will take what appears complex and explain how to make it achievable to help get your studio lighting to an elite level.

Explore a new (or rather historic) way of approaching your photography. When you learn to utilize a large format camera like a 4 x 5 you’re forced to slow down, observe and shoot sparingly. Artist and educator Daniel Gregory, will start with the basics like what exactly is a large format camera and why you should use one. He’ll demonstrate the art of using this workflow and give a guide that sets up up for success in the field.

When capturing images of families and children, you preserve memories for generations. Learning how to use flash opens up so many options, as you now longer have to be constrained by weather or location. Photographer Mike Hagen will help you incorporate flash into this genre of photography to create family heirloom images that also capture a moment in time.

When your client requests a beautiful image to mimic a fashion look, you’ll need the lighting skills to take on the challenge. Join photographer Mike Hagen as he helps you grow your flash lighting toolkit to create that glamorous look.

Stop with the excuses, grab your film camera and get out there and make amazing images! If you’re comfortable with your DSLR and post processing, then learning to use your film camera is easier than you think! In this beginner course, Sandra Coan walks through how to shoot with film so that you feel comfortable, confident, and excited to take the best pictures! She’ll talk about choosing your film and how to find and work with a lab to process your images.

The world of black & white photography is more than just “black and white.” With film photography you can control and create dynamic and detailed images that are timeless. Photographer, artist and educator Daniel Gregory will demonstrate how black and white photography can allow you to be more creative with your work. He’ll show the different types of film and how to meter for black & white as well as how you can get into the development process. This class will be your introduction into truly creating a photo from capture through print in the most hands on way.

In a world where most photos are captured digitally it’s good to remember the beauty of print and all of the creative options alternative processes have to offer. The history of printing photos introduces techniques and tools that can improve your eye in the field and open up doors to new perspectives. Fine artist and educator Daniel Gregory gives the steps needed to get you started in exploring the many formats out there.

With interior architecture photography- your goal should be to make your viewer feel like they are IN the image. In this unique course, Architecture and Fine Art Photographer Scott Frances walks through the theory and technique to capturing interior photos that make your clients home or business look authentic and real. By using only available light, Scott walks through how camera placement and light shaping can be done to draw your viewer into the image. He'll discuss how to shoot with post production in mind by using bracketing and detail shots. Scott's retoucher then joins to quickly show how having a clear and concise workflow to piece together your natural light images can help in delivering a set of photos to your client that tells the story of not only their space, but also your client.

Understanding how to create and defend your intellectual property is one of the trickiest issues plaguing photographers today. Join Rachel Brenke, TheLawTog®, as she gives you a 101 crash-course to make sure all areas of your business are covered, not just your photographs!

Tables in InDesign make for a great layout tool when formatting large amount of information, SKUs and data. Recent improvement in the Tables features make it that much easier to build a table, format and move content. Whether you build the table from scratch or import from a spreadsheet, this tutorial will show the functions and features of building and editing a table from simple to complex. Adding headers, footers, shaded rows or columns and flowing tables over multiple pages as well as converting tables to text if you need, all of this is covered in this comprehensive video.

CreativeLive is excited to bring you internationally renowned photographer Nigel Barker. Nigel will discuss the business of photography and how to make your vision a reality across multiple platforms. With 20+ years of experience in the fashion and entertainment industry, Nigel is also a successful author, director, and humanitarian. He served 18 seasons as photographer and judge on the hit TV show America's Next Top Model and won the "Film Heals" Award for Humanitarianism for "Dreams Are Not Forgotten".

CreativeLive is thrilled to bring you Stacy Pearsall: photojournalist, portrait artist, and former combat photographer. Among her many honors include twice being named the National Press Photographers Association’s military photographer of the year. In this presentation, Stacy will share what it takes to create a personal project of your own that makes an impact on you individually and professionally, while also providing a platform for creative growth, client visibility and financial value. Her wildly praised "The Veterans Portrait Project" has been shared in galleries across the nation while continuing to grow and tell the stories of millions of military veterans in the United States. 

Photographs are most powerful when seen. But how do you create images that get people talking and sharing your work? CreativeLive is thrilled to bring you Benjamin Von Wong, a conceptual photographer known for his art and documenting his adventures and creations. With projects that have taken the world by storm such as "Saving Eliza" and his most recent "#MermaidsHatePlastic" Ben Von Wong is using his talent, knowledge, and art to focus on conservation and social impact projects. In this keynote presentation, Ben shares just how to ""Ignite Conversation"" and create photographs that are shared and talked about.  

Join CreativeLive and Chase Jarvis for this unique panel event where he invites creative entrepreneurs and photographers up on stage to discuss the challenges they face with their business. Chase will share his experiences, point of view, and techniques to help you find solutions to what may be blocking your road to creative success. Along with being an award-winning photographer, director, author and entrepreneur...Chase is also the co-founder and CEO of CreativeLive.

For many people, public speaking is downright scary. When they’re given the task of making a speech or presentation at work or in their personal life, they’re overcome with dread and anxiety, worried that they’ll fail and make a fool of themselves.

Are you killing it in the classroom with your awesome new public speaking and presentation skills? Now it’s time to take it to the conference room! It’s one thing to learn improvisational techniques in an educational setting. It’s quite another to take those newfound abilities and put them into practice in your job and life.

Image Trace is one of the most powerful tools in Adobe® Illustrator CC® and Jason will cover it from A to Z. If you are drawing challenged, then Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator CC is for you! Jason will teach you to convert any photo to vector shapes that can then be manipulated. By the end you’ll be able to illustrate like a master artist.

Image formats can be very difficult to understand. In this class Jason demystifies all the different formats and what properties and features they have. No matter what kind of media or project you’re creating Jason will give you the confidence to know which format to use and when.

Commercials, teasers and promos are a great way to publicize your business. But taking on the task of creating advertising that looks professional and grabs people’s attention can be intimidating. The last thing you want to do is put out ads that are amateurish or tacky.

You might have an amazing book or idea to sell, but the only way you’ll be able to seal the deal is with a strong, persuasive book proposal. Much more than just an introduction to your book, a proposal gives literary agents and acquiring editors the information they need to make the tough decision to take on your work.