Workshops: Start Building Your Change, Creative, and Leadership Capacity

Workshops designed to take one key capacity (e.g. Innovation, Adaptability, Experimentation, Collaboration, Self-Leadership) explored in the keynote into the practical realm— offering frameworks, on-ramps, hands-on practice, and powerful takeaways.

Topics can be framed to focus on individual skill building (e.g. Make Creativity a Habit, Build Your Leadership Capacity, Future Proof Yourself) or organizational capacity building (Everyday, Everywhere Innovation; A Short Course in Experimentation; Architecture of Collaboration).

Format is highly customizable:
• Timing: from 20-75 minute post-keynote session to 2.5 hour, half-, whole-day immersive workshops
• Highly structured and scripted experience – individual and group work; moderated discussion
• Materials include: diagnostics for self-scoring where you are on each vector of change; cheat sheets framing up big themes, leading questions, takeaways; templated worksheets designed to generate deep work and tangible outcomes in compressed timeframes

Outcomes:
• Shared definitions (of innovation, creativity, collaboration, leadership, experimentation, etc.) and understanding of where the organization/team is along desired vector of change, what barriers exist, and how to make progress individually and collectively;
• A set of tractable methods, mindsets, and practices that support creativity, adaptability, collaboration, and agency;
• A portfolio of takeaways (dependent upon workshop focus), including: a portfolio of innovative ideas; a portfolio of experimental designs; a set of limiting assumptions and potential opportunities; a collection of agenda-setting questions; replicable templates and processes; capability diagnostics

Examples:
• A Short Course in Experimentation: A deep dive into the mindsets and methods that rapidly and cheaply generate options and deepen insight; a short course in experimental design; a portfolio of experimental designs your team can implement tomorrow
• Future-Proof Yourself: Powerfully practical strategies for learning as fast as the world is changing— Challenge Defaults, Explore the Edge, Run your Growth Loops; a set of models, methods, and self-experiments
• Scaffold Up Your Architecture of Collaboration: Learn the design principles for collaborative community; take the first steps in building an architecture of contribution and collaboration; portfolio of gateway experiments for promoting collaboration
• Expand Your Change Capacity: explore multiple modes and pathways for scouting the future, generating new ideas, developing and testing ideas, re-imaging organizational process and structures to expand change capacity.  Produce a portfolio of experimental designs for capacity-building organizational innovation