Agenda:
12:30PM: Registration and Networking
1:00PM: Workshop
5:00PM: Happy Hour & Innovation Showcase
7:30PM: Adjourn
Innovate Your Culture: Mindset, Skills and Action for New Growth
Key Benefits:
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Become a transformational leader who fosters innovation and inspires new ideas.
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Master the principles of design thinking to teach others how to innovate.
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Make your meetings more dynamic and engaging with design thinking facilitation.
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Collaborate with peers to design an actionable innovation program for your organization.
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Leave with a toolkit of resources you can immediately apply.
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Learn simple, practical techniques to integrate innovation into daily practices.
Workshop Overview: Leading innovation across an organization is both essential and challenging in today's fast-paced world. Many teams have mastered execution but lack the skills for innovation. This workshop bridges that gap, equipping you with the tools to foster a culture of innovation that drives new growth and creative problem-solving.
Through a hands-on, collaborative experience, you’ll learn how to lead more interactive, human-centered meetings and workshops. By applying design thinking techniques, you'll confidently guide others to generate fresh ideas and solutions. This workshop isn’t just about theory—it's about putting those skills into practice right away.
Expect to participate in creative activities, co-create solutions with your peers, and leave with the knowledge and confidence to implement design thinking for innovation. Whether you’re leading a team, facilitating workshops, or driving organizational change, this workshop will help you become a catalyst for transformation.
What’s Next:
Following the workshop, you'll receive complimentary access to additional online resources, workshops, and guides that reinforce what you’ve learned and support your ongoing innovation journey.
Trainer
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.
Innovation Showcase
Network with conference attendees, speakers and event partners and hear short presentations from innovative companies who are developing products and services that are driving the future of work. More speaker announcements coming soon!
Curtis Gilbert
Co-founder and Executive Producer, p3 mediaworks
p3 mediaworks is the creative video agency helping organizations share their ‘Why’ with the world. The ‘Why’ of any organization can be found within the fabric of its culture. We exist to create videos that capture the essence of an organization’s attitudes and beliefs, so their candidates, employees, customers and followers can experience what it’s like to work for them and do business with them.
Built on more than 20 years, we choose to partner with employer brand marketing teams because we love focusing on the people and purpose behind an organization. As a creative video agency our process is fully self-contained; one team conceives, writes, designs, plans and produces every video from zero to completion. Ultimately, our clients have a tool they can use to clearly communicate the uniqueness of their company culture to their most important audience.
Dr. Maggie Redling
Co-founder, Wrestling With Talent
Wrestling With Talent is transforming the HR landscape through a unique blend of art, science, and fun in talent management. We leverage creativity and strategic thinking to tackle organizational challenges and celebrate successes, ensuring our clients thrive in a dynamic business environment.
Our leadership development programs elevate managers into visionary leaders, while our performance management solutions drive tangible results with a focus on continuous improvement. We specialize in providing fractional HR services that deliver tailored expert support without the overhead of a full-time team.
Coleman Williams
Co-founder, Wrestling With Talent
Wrestling With Talent is transforming the HR landscape through a unique blend of art, science, and fun in talent management. We leverage creativity and strategic thinking to tackle organizational challenges and celebrate successes, ensuring our clients thrive in a dynamic business environment.
Our leadership development programs elevate managers into visionary leaders, while our performance management solutions drive tangible results with a focus on continuous improvement. We specialize in providing fractional HR services that deliver tailored expert support without the overhead of a full-time team.
Beth Ridley
Founder & CEO, Ridley Consulting Group
Beth Ridley is a former corporate executive and now CEO of leadership and workplace culture consulting firm, Ridley Consulting Group. Beth helps companies turn culture into a competitive advantage. With 25 years of global leadership and management consulting experience—and deep expertise in change management and positive psychology—she equips HR teams and people managers with the roadmap and tools to build resilient, change-ready, high-performing teams without burning people out. Beth and her team deliver practical, scalable solutions that lead to real behavior change that sticks. Whether you're strengthening culture to support change, developing leadership capabilities, or improving engagement, retention, and team dynamics, Beth brings clarity, structure, and momentum that makes progress doable and energizing.
