Innovation Training
Blade Kotelly teaching at MIT
Teaching Design-Thinking and leadership For your organization
Blade is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been teaching undergraduates and professionals about innovation and leadership for 17 years. He teaches his proven methodologies online or in-person, with formats ranging from a block of 1 hour webinars plus live online office hours, to intensive 2.25 day training sessions. They are highly interactive, energetic, and impactful sessions that will change the way your staff thinks about their work, forever.
How it’s delivered
4-hour Webinar Series with 4 Office Hours
Classes delivered asynchronously
Office hours take place after each module. Small office hours group size allows for rich interaction / unstructured time with Blade
Live 2.25 Day High Impact Class
(Zoom or in-person)
Groups up to 30 people 2 days of teaching, 6 hours/day with student project presentations the morning of day 3
Customization options available
THE TOPICS
The value of innovation
The 10-step innovation process
Managing uncertainty
Leadership skills for innovation
Articulating the vision of experiences
Mapping the network of stakeholders
Psychology of user-experience
Usability testing
Innovating in large organizations
Ethics of innovation
Advocating and presenting concepts
Small-group project with feedback
Enhancing brain chemistry for innovation
Why everyone needs this
Radically improve your problem-solving
Your teams need a common understanding of an innovation process to enable individual contributors and managers to generate higher value ideas, faster.Improve internal and external partnerships
Teams and individuals work together, better, by using methods that help them deeply and quickly understand the needs of stakeholders.Manage risk better & avoid hazards
Innovation and design-thinking skills can develop the ability to see uncertainty as opportunity, discovering hazards before they become a problem. This will increase your organization’s resiliency when the future of the business is uncertain, and the demands of internal and external partners increase
Why leadership needs this
Empower their teams
When leadership has a common understanding of innovation and design-thinking, they can better recognize how their teams can improve, and know who should be positioned to lead innovation.Avoid letting Great be the enemy of Good
Only when leadership believes that breakthrough solutions are possible by encouraging iterative problem solving, and by expecting early (safe!) failures, will their teams act the same way.Solve “impossible” problems
The leadership team must use a single approach to tackle the most complex problems, allowing them to capture the value that each group brings and leverage each other’s strengths to solve seemingly “impossible” problems.
““Presenting design thinking can be approached as a sleepy academic subject, or supercharged for busy leaders who want the know-how now.
Blade delivered. He is a very quick study who identified the opportunity for us to apply design thinking to our unique and urgent business needs. He tailored an action-packed workshop at our North American Innovation Conference where he introduced the foundations of design thinking including brief breakout sessions to ensure participants had sufficient understanding of the process. He then led us through a custom exercise to break through previously insurmountable barriers. The session was engaging, energizing, and effective. Historic non-participators joined in as they saw actual results building.
This was one of the most productive working/skill building sessions I have participated in, and Blade’s expertise made it worthwhile.””
““Never took such a dynamic course like this.””
““Everything exceeded my expectations. The organization was brilliant and the content was very deep ...””