Piritta Kantojärvi

The Creative Facilitator will kick you out of your box! - Brand Director Grape People

Tel. +358 400 664 889 (Finland)

Piritta specializes in the facilitation of creative processes, innovation training, and methods of change. During the past few years she has worked with some of the biggest corporations in Finland, training R&D management teams and experts in various fields of business. These teams have gained a shared vision and understanding of complex challenges, future possibilities, and breakthrough ideas. Piritta is energetic and full of fresh ideas and inspires the people around her.

Piritta is a professional facilitator and art & business specialist whose background is in visual art pedagogy. She has worked as a trainer/facilitator since 2001 and has unique skills and experience in combining visual art pedagogy with organizational development processes. Her mission is to develop and utilise new and efficient facilitation tools for creating understanding and trust in complex environments. This is crucial to innovation and the transformation of organizational culture - and to making the world a better place.

Piritta has an MA in Art Education from the University of Art and Design Helsinki. As part of her studies, she majored in art therapy. Piritta has also studied art management in the Netherlands and management consulting, organizational development, psychology, and leadership at the School of Economics in Helsinki. She is also a certified SDI-trainer and ScrumMaster. Piritta is happy to work in both Finnish and English – she might even say a few words in Dutch too!

Within Grape People, Piritta is responsible for developing our international brand. She is also the director of our Grape Arte team which is specializes in facilitation through art. Piritta is a partner of Grape People Finland Ltd.

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News:

• Piritta is giving a workshop at the Berlin Change Days 6.-7.11.2010, www.berlinchangedays.com
• Piritta is giving a workshop at the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Europe Conference which takes place in Finland in 2010 >
  
• Piritta is presenting at the most notable creativity conference in June 2010:
  > Creative Problem Solving Institute, 21.-25.6.2010 in Buffalo, www.cpsiconference.com
  > Preview of the same workshop 10.5.2010 in Helsinki
  
• Interview at the Fakta magazine 11-12/2009 (pdf in Finnish) >
• Interview and a case story about a facilitation training for Eläke-Fennia 1/09 (pdf in Finnish) >