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Organisations' ongoing transition to the "imagination age" calls for a rethink of work-life balance, and for HR to facilitate more creative workplace restructuring, a leadership specialist says.

Beginning with the advent of the internet, the information age made knowledge a commodity, but with information now available at everyone's fingertips, creativity and ideas are more valuable, psychotherapist and corporate consultant Katharine McLennan explains.

The imagination age calls for "creator workers" who can look at patterns of the past and come up with fresh ideas for the future, she tells HR Daily.

This includes "corporate athletes" who have the "ability to think of new ways to do things that haven't been done before"...