Programs

One Day Certificate in Scaling Human Impact Innovation

We are offering the one day Certificate in Scaling Human Impact Innovation program for live audiences. Please contact us to arrange for a program in your area. We can arrange for virtual options as well.

Program Description and Agenda

This one-day program teaches you how to use innovative entrepreneurship to create exponential solutions to solve issues of opportunity, equality, autonomy, safety, justice, creativity, health, education, and the lessening of human suffering. The program is a friendly “how to” guide that combines the best thinking from the world’s most innovative companies, NGOs, and nonprofits with leading research on leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and working with scarcity and trauma affected populations. The program is intended for aspiring and current impact entrepreneurs, donors, and those who wish to transform their communities.

8:30am – 9:00am Bagels, Donuts, Coffee, and Conversation (live sessions only)

9:00am – 10:45am
Session One: Overview, Core Principles, and Lean Impact

  1. Why Innovative Entrepreneurship Matters and the Core Principles
  2. What Is Impact? and the Tyranny of Artificial Barriers
  3. Building From Nothing and Lean Impact Methodology

11:00am – 12:30pm
Session Two: Humanizing and Scaling Impact

  1. Human Centered Design, Agile, Growth Hacking, and Data Analytics
  2. Driving Innovation: Models for Exponential Growth, Disruption, and Structured Creativity

12:30pm – 1:15pm
Lunch
(which may be combined with an additional discussion period)

1:15pm – 2:15pm
Session Three: The Limits of Innovation, Sustainability, and Funding

  1. A Word of Caution: the Limits (and Potential Hubris) of Entrepreneurial Solutions
  2. Transcending the Fundraising Trap with Economically Sustainable Models
  3. Changing the Donor Mindset

2:30pm – 4:00pm
Session Four: Leadership, Communication, Scarcity, and Trauma

  1. Leadership, Communication, Hard Conversations, and Conflict Resolution
  2. Trauma Informed Projects and Crisis Conversations

4:00pm – Onward
Open Q&A and Discussion