Keith Sawyer

Keith Sawyer

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Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading creativity researchers. He has published 20 books, including Group Genius, Zig Zag, and, most recently, Learning to See. Sawyer is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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