About Our Team
Spencer Brewer has assembled a regional team of world class professionals that specialize in all aspects of creative services: concert and event productions, graphic design and branding, media and publicity services, group and individual management trainings, business consultants and consensus building. To learn more about each of our team members use the links below:
- DG Creative, Karen Adair and Keith Asner
- InnovationLabs, Michael Kaufman
- Michael Carroll
- Spencer Brewer
DG Creative
DG Creative, Karen Adair and Keith Asner, Creative Solutions - Effective Results
DG Creative is a graphic design agency with expertise in branding–with an emphasis on short-term projects meeting long-term goals. They work with clients as marketing problem solvers and their creativity is out of the box and in the big picture. DG Creative's resources include web programming, photography, public relations, video/audio media services and print.
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll, Business Consultant: The Craft & Art of Building a Business
As a business coach, Michael Carroll works with business owners and managers to achieve their goals, both business and personal, using the tools and techniques of business and management. He has been working with businesses in Northern California for 15 years. Previously, he was a marketing executive in a series of fast growing technology start-ups in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.
“I see business as more than just a way to make money. The financial aspect is essential, but not sufficient. Business can be a creative outlet, an artist’s canvas, for our efforts. My work is focused on people who are in business for more than just the money.”
Michael Kaufman, InnovationLabs
Michael is one of the founders of InnovationLabs - an internationally recognized innovation and collaboration consulting firm.
Michael is internationally recognized as a facilitator, consultant, and experiential educator, focusing on strategy formation, complex problem solving, innovative product and service design, and organizational transformation. His approach to facilitation combines over twenty years of experience including the best of Accelerated Learning, the Design Process, brain-based learning and a rich background in the practice of innovation and collective creativity.
Michael's clients have included a broad range of organizations - international firms, Fortune 500 companies, emerging growth firms, start-ups, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, schools and school districts.
Michael’s list of clients include: CapGemini, Ernst & Young, Bell Canada, Cable & Wireless, Hyperion Solutions, The American Heart Association, Alegent Health, The American Board of Pediatrics, Smith & Nephew, the Federation of State Medical Boards, NASA, Stanford University Medical Center, Strategos, Rubio’s Restaurants, The Natural Step, GENI (Global Energy Network International), The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the State of Hawaii Department of Education, Nebraska State Department of Education, Marquette University, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee Public Schools, as well as San Diego and Santa Cruz City Schools.
In partnership with a network of consulting firms Michael has worked with 100’s of companies including Ford Motor Company, TRW, American Express, Netscape, Cisco, AEDC (Arnold Engineering and Development Corporation), Gulf Canada, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, and Lehman Brothers.
Other aspects of Michael’s background include producing and promoting experiential management trainings, as well as designing, producing and delivering business educational workshops that are highly interactive and dynamic. Many of these processes incorporate the principles of Buckminster Fuller’s design revolution, Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s Theory of Profound Knowledge, and facilitation processes invented by InnovationLabs LLC.
Michael Kaufman has been an entrepreneur since age 17 and has had the good fortune to know and learn from some remarkable mentors including Marshall Thurber, R. Buckminster Fuller, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and Matt and Gail Taylor.
Michael offers proven expertise in the following areas:
- Large scale interventions
- Multi-organizational collaboration
- Strategy formation
- New Product/Service Ideation and Development
- Design and Facilitation Collaborative Events
- Organization Design
- Quality and Continuous Improvement Processes
- Management Training and Development
- Experiential Learning
- Scenario Planning facilitation
- Horizons and Roadmap facilitation
Spencer Brewer
Spencer is passionate about visioning new ideas with a strong emphasis on marketing and business development and is exemplary at discovering unique ways to get goals accomplished while generating enthusiasm with teams, co-workers and employees. He is also a creative entrepreneur of unique depth and skills as well as a multi-million-selling performer, producer and promoter and has a passion for helping others, generating excitement about the cause he is working on while building community and consensus.
He is the founder of HighWired, Inc which created the first digital mixing technology for the Global Telecom messaging community. He built teams of professionals to build, market and sell technology to large global telecoms while spearheading and leading global meetings and deals with corporate telecom companies Lucent, Unisys, Cingular, Telus, Skywalker Sound, Comverse, VMA, Bell Canada and Verizon. He also built Laughing Coyote Productions, lcstudio.com, a recording facility that has produced 100’s of radio commercials, film scores, over 250 records and media productions.
With 16 solo and duet albums to his credit as well as producing over 200 recordings, he has had two #1 hit records, is a Grammy Nominee, has been awarded two patents and has founded several dozen events, companies and productions. His music has been featured on Home Alone 2, LA Law, Sex & the City, Thirty Something, The Opray Winfrey Show, The Barbara Walters Show, over 15 years of Olympic World games, virtually every airline in the skies and 100’s of other TV programs and movies across the globe on a daily basis. Early in his career he started the record label Willow Rose Productions, which duties included producing records, global promotional and marketing campaigns, negotiating record and distribution deals, working with suppliers, PR agents and graphic artists. He also produced publicity packages, releases and radio PR campaigns for hundred’s of events, tours and concerts.
He started the Ukiah Music Center in 2002 and won ‘The Mendocino County Arts Business Champion Award’ in 2008 while offering new and unique services to the musical community that helped start many new musicians into the world of music. He also created several events that received national attention like ‘Acoustic Café’, ‘Guitars for Grades’, ‘Music for Youth Program’, ‘ BandSlam’ and the Treblemakers Event Center while at UMC.