Claire Kruesel

Claire Kruesel (KREE-zuhl) is thrilled to be leading the Creative Confidence for Innovation workshops! With an intersectional background in STEM, mindful movement, and the arts, she believes that innovators in every field can benefit from creative thinking—and that everyone can activate their creativity with a little practice and mindset shifting. It is a privilege to meet with students ready to invest in their innovation skills.

You can read more about Ms. Kruesel’s ISU work at her BBMB Department profile.

Ms. Kruesel's top strengths are creativity (VIA), individualization, strategic, connectedness, ideation, input, achiever, futuristic, learner, restorative, and activator (Clifton/Gallup).

Conversation starters with Claire:

• Study abroad in France
• Your favorite Ames parks (bonus if your dog likes them)
• Recommend a sci-fi or well-narrated audiobook
• Tell me about weird and/or old objects you collect
• Undergraduate research (ask me about Stupka Symposium)