Virtual Course: Introduction to Collaborative Innovation Virtual Course:
January 15, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Pacific US: Jan 15, 22, 29 | 11:00 am – 2:30 pm
Eastern US: Jan 15, 22, 29 | 2:00 – 5:30 pm
What It Is
An introduction to the key elements of Collaborative Innovation—a process model and set of tools that enable leaders to effectively lead impactful change within a group of diverse stakeholders across different sectors. This is a fast-paced, immersive—and at times, challenging—dive into the “Four Agendas” of Collaborative Innovation: connecting, aligning, learning, and making.
Who Should Enroll
Changemakers, leaders, facilitators, collective impact backbone staff, and consultants. If the problem you’re facing seems hugely complicated, with a lot of moving parts across a lot of different groups, this course is the perfect jumping-off point.
Duration
Three virtual sessions, 3.5 hours each.
Registration Cost
$475 USD per person | Registration includes digital copies of all course materials and resources.
What You’ll Gain
Join us for an engaging, hands-on workshop designed to empower you to lead impactful multi-stakeholder collaborations for systems change. This course is perfect for changemakers, leaders, facilitators, collective impact backbone staff, and consultants tackling complex challenges that require a collaborative approach.
The workshop centers around the “four agendas” of collaborative innovation, ensuring you build momentum, accountability, and meaningful change.
- Connecting: Learn to build trusting connections across various boundaries and unite a powerful change system.
- Aligning: Discover how to align around a clear, deeply shared intent for your collaborative work.
- Learning: Gain insights into the larger system and the human experiences within it.
- Making: Develop, test, and scale concrete, strategic solutions and interventions.
Our course is not just about learning concepts; it’s about offering practical approaches to collaborative changemaking.
We will share our learnings about:
- The critical elements of successful multi-stakeholder collaborations that thrive on real alignment, engagement, and momentum.
- How to confidently convene diverse networks across organizational, sectoral, cultural, and political boundaries.
- How to create deeply interactive and human-centered approaches to collaboration that genuinely engage participants.
You will leave this workshop with enhanced skills in:
Developing and prototyping powerful ideas and testing them in the real world.
Collaborating and co-creating at the highest levels of stakeholder engagement.
Advancing the four agendas of collaborative innovation: aligning, connecting, learning, and making.
Aligning diverse interests around a powerful shared intent.
Helping stakeholders develop a systemic understanding of challenges and an empathetic view of the human experiences within those systems.