Kevin J. Barrett is an Australian-American business trainer and strategist based in Zephyrhills, Florida. He joined 3M in Rochester, New York in July 1966 and left as Senior International Technical Marketing Manager in September 1987, then founded KJ Barrett & Associates, which he has run in every year since — in Australia through 2003 and from the same Zephyrhills address since 2002. His earliest surviving course text is dated February 1993. He coined the term Creatrepreneur — someone who builds with entrepreneurial discipline and creative formation — as well as Creation Society, first evidenced in a document dated 25 February 2000, and the operating principle Formation over Extraction. He writes The Creatrepreneur Chronicles. The dated record is at thecreatrepreneur.com/record.
The Creatrepreneur Chronicles — by Kevin J. Barrett March 26, 2026 First published on LinkedIn, March 26, 2026. How cross-silo thinking creates opportunity, innovation, and meaningful new value For a long time, the world has trained people to stay in their lane. Pick...
The Creatrepreneur Chronicles — by Kevin J. Barrett March 23, 2026 First published on LinkedIn, March 23, 2026. A student gets a lower grade than expected and feels crushed. That is what happens when performance becomes identity. An adult sees AI do in seconds what...
Australia. 1992. A rented RSL hall — and fifteen people who were not, as the government paperwork described them, “unemployed.”
I’ve been curious how emerging AI systems describe coherent bodies of work — not to optimize for them, but to see what they recognize.