How Human-Centered Innovation Labs Manifest Empowered Employees

Innovation labs can get a rep as an insular hangout for moonshot goofballs, an expensive office with a whole bunch of wacky furniture off in the corner somewhere — an unfulfilled promise.

That’s why it’s crucial to craft your innovative initiative from the inside out and build a human-centered, embedded lab that will empower your employees and generate a homegrown army of SMEs.

My guests today are revolutionary thinkers, teachers, and iconoclasts:

• Karen Tilstra, Ph.D., the Founder and President of Creativity Effect, a visiting professor at AdventHealth University and Rollins College, and the Executive Fellow for Innovation at the University of Santa Clara.
• Andy Tilstra, the Chief Information Officer at Creativity Effect, an adjunct professor at AdventHealth University, and a curriculum contributor at Rollins College, who holds a Masters from the University of Chicago.

Join us as we dive into:

• Manifesting highly engaged employees and frontline workers through participation and ownership of innovation
• Utilizing the five steps of design thinking methodology: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
• Using improvisational theater methods to create a safe space
• How leaders do things to either kill or enhance innovation

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