Description
Innovation labs can get a rep as an insular hangout for moonshot goofballs, an expensive office with a whole bunch of wacky furniture off in the corner somewhere — an unfulfilled promise.
That’s why it’s crucial to craft your innovative initiative from the inside out and build a human-centered, embedded lab that will empower your employees and generate a homegrown army of SMEs.
My guests today are revolutionary thinkers, teachers, and iconoclasts:
- Karen Tilstra, Ph.D., the Founder and President of Creativity Effect, a visiting professor at AdventHealth University and Rollins College, and the Executive Fellow for Innovation at the University of Santa Clara.
- Andy Tilstra, the Chief Information Officer at Creativity Effect, an adjunct professor at AdventHealth University, and a curriculum contributor at Rollins College, who holds a Masters from the University of Chicago.
Join us as we dive into:
- Manifesting highly engaged employees and frontline workers through participation and ownership of innovation
- Utilizing the five steps of design thinking methodology: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
- Using improvisational theater methods to create a safe space
- How leaders do things to either kill or enhance innovation
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