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Innovate Your Culture:

Preconference Workshop

Agenda:

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People-Powered AI Change: Culture, Mindset & Momentum​

Connect, Learn & Lead Together

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This preconference workshop is a microcosm of what makes a great conference experience so powerful. Before the main event even begins, you are already stepping into a culture of connection, collaboration, creativity, and learning. You are not just attending a session. You are engaging with others, sharing stories, exploring ideas, solving challenges together, and experiencing the kind of human interaction that can lead to real insight, inspiration, and momentum.

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In this workshop, you will:

  • connect with thoughtful people and build real relationships

  • collaborate, create, and problem-solve together

  • hear stories and discover new insight through the stories of others

  • experience innovation and design thinking by doing it

  • stretch your thinking through engaging activities and conversations

  • gain encouragement, fresh ideas, and energy for the conference ahead


Why This Session Is Different

Many AI sessions are all about the tech. This one centers on people: the mindsets, relationships, and collaborative muscles you’ll need to guide an organization through AI-driven change. This preconference workshop jump-starts the networking, peer learning, and momentum you’ll carry into the CultureCon's AI Summit. Today’s AI wave is as much a people transformation as a tech upgrade. It’s time to learn and lead.
 

  1. Exchange real-world challenges and co-design solutions.

  2. Build the confidence and competence to guide people through rapid, AI-driven change—without losing the culture that makes them thrive.

  3. Lead the human side of transformation with adaptability and continuous learning so people stay future-ready in a changing organization.

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Key Benefits

  • Build Your AI-Change Network - Forge meaningful connections with fellow culture, HR, strategy, and org leaders before the conference even starts.

  • Cultivate a Learning Growth-Mindset Playbook - Practice habits that keep you and your team curious, learning, adaptable and ready to experiment in a fast-moving, rapidly changing landscape.

  • Translate Big AI Shifts into Human-Centered Action - Co-design quick-win experiments and prototypes that make AI learning and adoption energizing.

  • Supercharge Collaboration & Facilitation - Learn simple moves (live) that blend design thinking, facilitation, and light-touch AI techniques to spark richer dialogue and faster alignment.

  • Leave with Immediate Tools & Long-Term Resources - You'll receive access to additional online resources, workshops, and guides that reinforce what you’ve learned and support your ongoing innovative journey.

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If you guide people through uncertainty while AI reshapes work, this workshop is for you.

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Join us to connect, co-create, and walk into CultureCon’s AI Summit with a community at your back, and a transformational AI+people powered action plan in your pocket.

Trainer

Your Trainer
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Dr. Darin Eich

Founder

InnovationTraining.org

Dr. Darin Eich is the founder of InnovationTraining.org and author of Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Create & Develop Ideas for your Challenge and Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs. He is a widely sought after design thinking expert, innovation workshop leader and keynote speaker as the CEO of Innovation Learning. Darin is known for making innovation fun, simple, and contagious to pass on. Darin has helped over 100 organizations from Silicon Valley to Boston to Singapore and Berlin with their culture of innovation. Darin designs and facilitates programs used by over 1 million people that have been featured in USA TODAY and offered dozens of times by the University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth College. He started in design thinking more than 10 years ago as the president of BrainReactions where he led projects for clients like P&G and the United Nations.   

Attendee Testimonials

Thank you for generously sharing your insights, expertise, and valuable resources. I especially appreciate the gift you have for creating an environment where participants can learn from one another, are challenged to try new activites in a safe space, and have fun all at the same time. The best part of the workshop is that it never really ended!

Thank you for teaching state of the art techniques on how to build a more innovative workplace culture through design thinking.  I've already used several of your techniques to make our team meetings more engaging, fun, and productive. We're generating more ideas, cultivating empathy, and taking action more so than we ever did before!

 During the workshop, I picked up a lot of tips and simple techniques that can be used throughout the workday. Things that will help me translate [innovation] theory into the practice. For me, the workshop was about affirmation and confidence for becoming a more transformational leader that helps others learn and start new ideas. 

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