About
Adam L. McMath
Arts administrator, writer, cultural architect, and multi-hyphenate artist.
I stumbled into this work. A former colleague, starting a new job, asked me to run a team-building exercise for her staff. The assignment I handed them: make a music video for "Rapper's Delight." Strangers in a conference room picked parts, argued over the chorus, taught each other the words, and shot the whole thing in an afternoon. By the end they weren't a department anymore. They had built something together, and you could see it on every face — they felt like they belonged.
That afternoon named something I'd been circling my whole career. Belonging is something people build, usually with their hands and usually together. Creative Belonging grew out of that one finding: shared making is how connection forms.
I lead this kind of facilitation with communities and organizations across the country — nonprofits, companies, schools, rooms full of people who have everything in common except a reason to trust each other yet. The work outgrew one set of hands, so a small group of facilitators now carries the approach into rooms I can't reach myself. Each of them found their way here the way I did: by using art to work through their own struggle with belonging.
Alongside Creative Belonging, I run an arts nonprofit whose work reaches across the country and, increasingly, past its borders.
The Art of Belonging — the book and the 30-day program — is the distilled version of what I've watched happen in those rooms.
Lead Facilitator
Angela Harvey
Angela Harvey has spent more than 25 years changing how people and organizations learn, lead, and connect. She founded Angie Harvey Speaks and serves as lead facilitator for Fortune 500 teams through Mind Gym and Cappfinity, building sessions that move a culture, not only a curriculum.
Her work draws on adult learning theory, strengths-based facilitation, and behavioral science. What sets it apart is that Angela is also a working artist — a documentary filmmaker, published author, and photographer, and the creator of the Head of Statements hat exhibition, shown at festivals, galleries, and Pride events around the country. She treats creativity as a way people find each other and grow, and that runs through everything she facilitates.
For HR leaders, she holds the strategic and the human at the same time, tying an organization’s learning goals to experiences that leave people feeling seen — where any real culture starts.
Angela holds a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University, along with certifications from Mind Gym and Cappfinity. People leave her sessions with new skills and a clearer sense of what’s possible, for themselves and the teams they lead.
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Facilitator
Kenan Cooper-Gilmore
Kenan Cooper-Gilmore has spent more than twenty years in corporate training and management, working from one conviction: a company grows only as far as its people do. He has built learning across some of the most tightly regulated industries there are — telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, utilities, and healthcare — turning complicated operational demands into onboarding frameworks and workforce systems people can actually follow.
He works both sides of the table. Alongside his corporate career he founded his own business and serves as executive director of a nonprofit, which gives him a wider view than most learning designers carry. He builds programs that answer to the bottom line and to the people doing the work at once, on the belief that those two were never really separate.
His path runs through more than the classroom. As a licensed Realtor with Crye-Leike, he brought the same attention to community and story into the housing market, including work representing Southern Serenity Homes, the builder for the St. Jude Children’s Hospital Dream Home Giveaway.
Kenan grounds his facilitation in adult learning theory, years of corporate training, and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis certification. He treats data, structure, and human capability as one system: fix a bottleneck at its root instead of patching the surface, and a training department stops being a cost and becomes something the whole organization leans on. At Creative Belonging he brings that same mind to rooms full of strangers, using shared making to build the trust an org chart can’t hand you.