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Design Thinking for Leading Innovation

 

Jennifer Kenny is global leader in design thinking. She delivers new models for teams looking to build better things by changing the way they think & work together.

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Design

Design Thinking for

Leading Innovation

 

The pandemic has accelerated change in how innovation is inculcated into organizations, scaled, and monetized. Design Thinking challenges and changes persistent dogma and creates new innovation efficiencies based on process design, operational innovation efficiency, and conversations for design.

Employed successfully by Fortune 500 organizations in large-scale transformation efforts, Design Thinking is a powerful tool to create sustainable, scalable advancements where technology innovation is a "must have." It helps you create new frameworks to move from silos of product development to cross-functional, game-changing innovation.

We can apply Design Thinking to the design and development of products AND to the design and development of the human interactions needed to design great products. Design Thinking applies both to the design of things and to the design of work. This is what we call Human Innovation.

Best For: Senior executives and high performing teams where innovation is core to success including AI, IoT, Mobility, Robotics, Blockchain, and the Spatial Web, and other technical domains.

This Program is
Available in 4 Ways

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Workshop

Half-day introduction to Design Thinking for Human Innovation

Workshop

Half-day introduction to Design Thinking for Human Innovation

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Program

Mastering Innovation Leadership

Program

Mastering Innovation Leadership

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Executive Coaching

Designed for Innovation Leaders

Executive Coaching

Designed for Innovation Leaders

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Executive Offsites

Executable Strategy

Executive Offsites

Executable Strategy

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Work

Workshop

This workshop is designed to be a deeply interactive learning experience for participants to think about work and innovation differently. To understand innovation as a human practice and so see how co-ordination, co-invention, knowledge creation, empathy, and courage play a foundational role in all innovation.

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Innovate

Program

Mastering Innovation Leadership

Increase the innovation capacity of your team by supporting innovation team leads so you become game-changing leaders of the innovation ecosystem.

This Program is for your next level innovation leaders if:

  • If your team leads are inexperienced in Mobilization and Transformation.

  • They don't want to have to manage people, they want to lead.

  • They are committed to do and lead their own research and want to dig themselves out of the vicious cycle of lack of coordination and overwhelm, resulting in waste, re-work, and demo death marches that result in even more overwhelm.

  • They want to apply their learning to a specific project and increase the value of the impact and outcome.

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Coach

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching for Innovation Leaders

A 6-month intensive one-on-one coaching program for senior executives who want to break silos, build innovators, and amplify their teams.

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Offsite

Executive Offsite

Executive Offsite: Executable Strategy

Executional excellence is the #1 challenge facing corporate leaders in the U.S., Europe, & Asia, with ~75% of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. Cross-functional coordination is key to executional excellence, but these skills are not fostered by traditional workplace models. By guiding teams to develop strategy that is built on cross-functional coordination, co-invention and knowledge creation, Jennifer helps organizations can build their capacity for executional excellence and develop strategies that are truly executable. It also helps that she is a strategist and has been a C-Level exec.

This is for your team if:

  • Have a BIG agenda and goals but are really struggling to execute on strategy

  • Have alignment among your team (you get on well) but you still don’t seem to be able to pull it off

  • Try to stick to the plan but the market and competition is changing fast

  • Prioritize communication but still nothing seems to stick

Changes the way technology teams think and act to create clarity and alignment across roles to bring innovation strategy to life.

Executable Strategy is delivered via a 2-day format using Systems Thinking, Design Thinking and Promise-Based Management methodology.

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Unifying & Effective

Jennifer has a startling ability to turn teams within an organization who have warred with each other for years–in some cases unable even to talk to each other civilly–into a coherent, effective, single team.

Doug Okun

SVP Enterprise Digitalization | Wells Fargo

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Bring your innovation strategy to life.

Before engaging with most clients, Jennifer offers a complementary 55-minute session to understand your challenges so she can discuss an executable strategy on the call.

Click here to learn more, or click below to schedule your session.

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