Lonnie Lardner

Creative Voltage was developed by award-winning Los Angeles TV newscaster Lonnie Lardner, whose passion for the arts inspired her to launch dozens of art enrichment programs for inner-city children in L.A.'s most beleaguered neighborhoods. Today, she is considered one of the most inventive instructors in creative thinking in the corporate world. She has become renown for her high-energy “outrageously unpredictable” teambuilding workshops at corporate conference sites, and promises to help shift your right brain into high gear.

Lonnie Lardner comes from a long line of news and entertainment professionals. Her grandfather was national editor of the New York Times in the 1930s. Her great uncle Ring is known as one of the best sports humorists of all time, and his son, Ring Jr., earned an Academy Award for the screenplay “M.A.S.H.” Her father Rex was the head writer for the Ernie Kovacs Show in the 1950s.

Lonnie is currently producing a feature-length documentary on her personal hero--an inner-city woman who lives in a one-bedroom apartment, and offers safe haven to hundreds of children dodging gang violence and drug-addicted parents.

Lonnie's passion to paint takes her to her Southern California studio every possible opportunity. She naturally favors abstract acrylics, collage, and assemblage.