Innovation Leadership

A 12-module, on-demand program for busy executives who need to lead teams and make strategic decisions under the constant risk of disruption.

Real Projects

Get individual feedback on your real projects at your job.

Interactive Sessions

You will interact with the facilitator and the other attendees to run exercises.

Focused Teaching

Get 2-4 hours of focused teaching on a specific skill.

Materials & Frameworks

Get self-paced learning materials and frameworks.

Our Innovation Leadership Program is a 12-module, on-demand curriculum for busy executives who need to lead teams through times of uncertainty and under the constant threat of disruption.

We work with executives accustomed to operating through top-down leadership, introducing you to new methods of working to find the best fit for your organization.

Our leadership coaches help you decentralize the decision-making processes that acts as a blocker for most intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs. Instead, we'll use resource allocation methods that ensure decisions are made by the people with the most information. We also examine governance models used to manage your company strategy and portfolio, to make sure that the guidelines for making these decisions are comprehensible and usable.

Our focused modules help you set goals, map innovation obstacles and metrics of success, and manage a sustainable innovation ecosystem

Real Projects
Receive individual feedback on your real projects at your job.

Interactive Sessions
Interact with the facilitator and your peers to run exercises.

Focused Teaching
Get 2-4 hours of focused teaching on a specific skill.

Materials & Frameworks
Access learning materials and frameworks that you can complete at your own pace.

All Modules

Lean, Agile, & UX Principles

Lean Startup was born from a need for companies to innovate in high-risk environments in constantly changing markets. Like its predecessor, Agile Software Development, Lean Startup methodology aims at applying a scientific approach to innovation, identifying business assumptions, and then validating and invalidating business model hypotheses.

Customer Segmentation for Simple Sales (B2C)

Demographics used to be a marketer’s only tool, but it's insufficient for early-stage customer discovery, and almost useless for designing user experience. Now we use customer personas to generate an intense focus on early adopters and empathy with end users. In this session, we learn how to identify early customers through segmentation and customer personas.

Storyboarding & Metrics

Qualitative data and quantitative data do not exist in opposition. Qualitative data from UXers should not compete with the quantitative data product owners need for their business model. Both are necessary to a complete understanding of where the desirability of the product meets the viability of the business. Storyboarding is a simple way to start integrating both perspectives into a complete picture of how the user experience impacts the business model.

Practical Statistics for Quantitative Experiments

Support your customer discovery, landing page, and comprehension test processes with a basic grasp of applicable statistics. You will learn how to recognize false signals in your experiments, determine sample sizes for experiments, calculate margins of error in your results, and understand the impact of population, sample size, and confidence interval. Ultimately you will be able to identify the winning experiment given a variety of test results.

Leadership Habits

Become a better leader by identifying habits that work and don’t work in startup environments. This module helps you identify your own bad leadership habits and design better habits that work for your team. You will create a plan for collecting feedback on your behaviors, break down good and bad leadership habits in a matrix exercise, and create OKRs for continuous self-improvement

Setting Personal & Team Goals

Goal-setting is an important step before any major journey. Defining effective goals allows you and your team to make progress and then measure it. This module covers program goal-setting, and how to use these techniques to create a dashboard to keep your innovation project on track.

Innovation Strategy

Define a vision for the future, a path to get there, and effective watchtowers to see when disruption is coming. This module puts your company on the path towards self-disruption, helping you stay on the leading edge of your market and allowing you to get out in front of your competitors -- and stay there.

Innovation Ecosystem Triage

Innovation Ecosystems are complex, and they challenge some of the traditional models of R&D and innovation. A holistic view of how culture, people, and processes interact is vital to allow a system to disrupt and reinvent itself. This workshop focuses on how to map out your ecosystem and identify obstacles that are putting the brakes on innovation.

Innovation and Portfolio Management

Why don't stage gates work? Why doesn't spending more money on R&D lead to more innovation? How can I drag my company into the future? This module dives into how to understand the ROI of innovation, explain it to stakeholders, and make a case for a dedicated innovation budget using metered funding.

Business Model Design

This module shows you how startups use business models to drive innovation, including how uses of a business model differ between startups seeking product/market fit and larger corporations that have already found it. Learn how to fill out a business model canvas, how to identify risk in your business, and how to prioritize your tasks based on our business assumptions.

Financial (and Mission Impact) Modeling

Every entrepreneur needs to understand how to create a basic financial model of their business. This module teaches you the most important elements to model for the most common business types, and to project how your business will grow based on the relationship between specific customer and product metrics and engines of growth.