Introduction to Innovation and Collaboration

This interactive and motivating session will guide you through an exercise to identify your organization's hidden superpowers. Organizations come in with a problem they need solved. Paul and Kelly, will help your group discover ideas that are mission-aligned and have the potential to create new revenue streams to help your organization address the rapid, ever-changing challenges of this time.

Using our MAD Ideation Canvas we will take you through an example of how to understand the full capability of your organization’s Mission, Assets and Demand - MAD. Once identified, members of your team will use that information to inform potential ideas for your organization. Those ideas will be assessed by a group of pre-set criteria and some that you identify as important to you and your organization. Teams leave with a rank-ordered list of viable potential solutions.

Presented by Innovation Accelerator

About Founder and Lead Instructor, Paul Silva -

Paul is a lifelong entrepreneur and educator passionate about helping people and teams create economic prosperity through innovation. During his career he has inspired thousands of people to innovate, helped hundreds of startups launch, and proudly watched as those businesses significantly increased local employment rates.

About Co-Founder and Director of Operations, Kelly Minton - Kelly brings experience from the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. She has worked as a marketing associate in the corporate world, launched two startups and has worked in nonprofit advancement. She is well versed in traditional fundraising and board governance.

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