About

Bruce Flye is a visual practitioner, blending the creative potential of graphic imagery with positive and strengths-based practices in planning, change and innovation. Bruce serves as the Director of Planning and Partnerships at the Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, NC, and he also practices independently. In addition, he is a Consulting Partner in the Corporation for Positive Change,  and a member of the Creat!ve Conversat!ons (tm) team at the Center for Creative Leadership.

A registered architect, Bruce has applied the principles of planning and design to the physical, academic and organizational aspects of higher education for 18 years. Since 2005, he has explored and developed his skills as an illustrator and graphic facilitator to design and lead engagements that are interactive, creatively-oriented and momentum-building.

A graduate of the N.C. State University School of Design, Flye served as University Architect at East Carolina for ten years. In addition to oversight of a major expansion program, he led the development of campus master plans for both the main and medical campuses. During that time, he worked with the University of North Carolina system and Eva Klein & Associates in the design and development of the statewide Capital Equity/Adequacy Study and 10-Year Capital Plan, which involved substantial elements of system-wide policy and legislative strategy.

Bruce has been trained in a variety of practices that include Appreciative Inquiry, Systems Thinking and the Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem-Solving Method, and he has studied under  field leaders such as the Grove Consultants International, Roger Schwarz and Associates, the Society for College and University Planning and the Corporation for Positive Change. He maintains an active peer network, and holds memberships in the American Institute of Architects, the Creative Education Foundation and the International Forum of Visual Practitioners.

Recent clients include the Center for Creative Leadership, the Creative Education Foundation, The Grove Consultants International, the University of Scranton and Purdue University at Calumet.