About
For over 20 years, Alex Leviton’s wide-ranging career has centered around one single concept:
Creativity changes the world.
Working Artist
Alex has worked as a journalist, guidebook author, one-time standup comic, poetry mentor in a juvenile psychiatric hospital, board game co-creator, editorial director, start-up co-founder, et al. Alex is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and has been a Lonely Planet author since 2002. She is the author of Explore Every Day and co-author of over two dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks (and one with the co-founding editor of The Onion). She’s been a Creativity at Work columnist for the Seattle Times; a creative side hustle series editor at The Guardian; and she’s covered culture, creativity and travel for the Independent Weekly, BBC Travel, USA Today, etc.
Business and Leadership
Alex is the rare writer/artist who also thrives in business and leadership roles; she was Editorial Director of Gogobot.com (Trip.com) in Silicon Valley, Author Liaison Manager for Lonely Planet, Senior Editor of Solimar magazine, and Executive Editorial Director and Co-Founder of Firef.ly in London. High-level problem-solving is kind of her jam, and she thrives working with creative professionals, business leaders and policymakers on coming up with out-of-the-box, innovative solutions to complex issues.
Creativity Whisperer
Alex is fascinated by the creative process itself. After struggles with her own Inner Critic and mentoring hundreds of creatives, she developed a talent for helping her employees, interns and students build their foundations, establish creative safety, and elicit their own creative bravery and flow. She now has over 120 exercises she layers to help create a safe space for creativity to connect and grow, whether that’s individually or in a group setting.
