Strozzi Institute
Denise M. Maes has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Denise M. currently serves as the Director of Enrollment at Strozzi Institute, where they drive the success and leads a consultative sales strategy for in-person public courses. Denise M. is a skilled sales professional who is passionate about supporting positive and transformational change in leaders, coaches, teams, and communities. Prior to this, Denise was a Partner, Trainer, and Founder of Apixii ~ Applied Improvisation, where they focused on teaching the business applications of improvisation and fostering workplace trust. Denise M. also has a background in the performing arts, as they were the Executive Producer, Operations & Sales at Bovine Metropolis Theater, which they founded and owned. Additionally, Denise worked at Merrill Lynch, where they held roles in corporate training and as a financial consultant.
Denise M. Maes pursued higher education from 1984 to 1989 at Colorado State University. During this period, they earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Economics and a minor in Spanish.
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Strozzi Institute
Our mission is to produce leaders who embody pragmatic wisdom, skillful action and grounded compassion. We propose a different approach to learning – embodied learning. We begin with the claim that learning is the ability to take actions that were previously unavailable to us. Secondly, we offer a new interpretation of the body that is fundamental to learning. This interpretation challenges the rationalistic tradition, the dualism of mind and body that our educational system has maintained over the past three hundred years. In contrast to this tradition we say that learning is the result of new practices that we commit our body to, not in gathering and understanding information. In the words of William Shakespeare, “By my actions teach my mind.” We challenge the notion that cognitive understanding produces the ability to take effective action. We are not suggesting abandoning cognitive learning. We are saying it is only one aspect of learning. We do see, however, that learning happens in our bodies. When we understand, for example, the power of making grounded assessments, requests, offers, and leading those we manage, but find ourselves incompetent to do so, we see it is necessary to design practices that train our bodies for these actions.
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