Supporting innovation in higher ed.

Approaches to Innovation and Design

Generating new ideas. Unlock the creativity of your team and institution. Through guided sessions using design tools such as the Innovator’s Compass, we help you learn and engage in design processes to explore new possibilities for teaching and curriculum development, creating new programs, or reimagining current structures.

Co-Design. Working on a change initiative as a team? Don’t debate endlessly in meetings. Instead, use shared, on-the-ground experience to inform your process. We can help you adapt best practices of collaboration from the design industry to ensure that your work is productive, well-considered, and aligned. We facilitate groups of faculty and staff in structured and shared processes of “co-design” for curriculum and course design, department-remaking, or the launching of new initiatives.

Enhance Student Learning

Strengthen Teaching. The science of learning continues to show the benefits of active learning, several approaches of which are simple to implement in a variety of classroom settings. This requires more, however, than just giving students tasks. In practical workshops, we support your faculty in understanding and developing effective active learning approaches they can implement immediately in their classes, whether in-person or online, large or small.

Change Course Formats. There is more than one way to teach a course. Looking to vary your course schedule and adopt a block plan, quarter system, or other? There are many reasons to consider such approaches. Based on significant experience in teaching and training instructors in such formats, we provide practical workshops that help your faculty migrate and develop courses aligned with best practices while avoiding common pitfalls.

Develop Advanced Skills

See Blindspots. Despite even the best of intentions, many change initiatives fail. Why? It isn’t necessarily from a lack of effort, but from hidden dimensions in our perspectives that invisibly constrain our efforts. Using the powerful Immunity to Change approach, we provide workshops that help you and your team uncover your unique blindspots, the realization of which will liberate you and help your initiative succeed. These workshops are particularly effective for individuals and teams dealing with challenges, feeling stuck, or seeking a breakthrough in effectiveness.

Achieve Productivity with Ease. Stressed and overwhelmed? This is no way to work, and the wrong conditions to bring to an important change initiative. Dramatically increase your productivity while feeling at peace –– not through marginally helpful tips and hacks for getting more done, but rather through new take on time management as a whole. Using the remarkable Mission Control system for productivity, we guide you through a series of sessions that provide you with perspectives, work practices and tools that leave you with power, freedom and peace of mind to act on what matters most.

Get Valuable Support. Change initiatives at colleges and universities can be particularly challenging for those who lead them, especially when they involve adaptive challenges, not just technical problems. Our coaching and support helps you facilitate effective change as a leader of your team, area or institution. We have been in your shoes, and we know what makes the difference for success.