The Power of Using Design Sprints to Develop Leader Talent

A Design Sprint, commonly called a "hackathon", is an exciting, experiential experience which uses the process of design-thinking to accelerate ideating and vetting potential options to solve a specific challenge. It is also a transformational development tool that senior executives genuinely love to have their employees experience, largely due to the timely, relevant positive impact on the business.

Come learn more about using design sprints to further individual and group learning.  And as a special treat, attendees will get to participate in a mini-hackathon, to get a little taste of the power of design-thinking. This will be a fun, fast-paced, hands-on experience, where you will be rapidly led through the first 3 of the six steps of the Design Sprint process (Empathize, Define, & Ideate).

Participants will accelerate their creative problem-solving skills while learning:

• How to break down a complex problem into a manageable target of focus.
• The benefits of having a diverse, cross-functional group tackling a challenge.
• The power of learning through quick-and-dirty ideating versus months of product/service/project development.

Facilitator:  Karan Rhodes, CEO & Lead Strategist

Shockingly Different Leadership is a human capital professional services consultancy that partners with executives of Learning & Development, Human Resources, and Organizational Development teams, to execute business- critical, talent-related initiatives - on an on-demand, project, or contract basis.

Following a long tenure as an executive at the Microsoft Corporation, Karan founded SDL around the core belief that HR, Talent, and Learning functions deserve to have the right resources to do their best work. As such, the firm's differentiating value is being its clients’ favorite ally to provide strategic advice & expert resources to help them help their organizations become future-ready, today.

https://www.shockinglydifferent.com/

Agenda:

Doors Open - 5:30 PM (Networking, Food, etc.)

Program Begins - 6:00 PM

Program Ends - 7:30 PM

Door Close - 8:00 PM