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Equip your students with the entrepreneurial skills to innovate, launch, and lead!
When you bring us into your school, we teach your students and educators the skills and competencies of entrepreneurship, problem-solving, innovation, creativity, and design thinking.
the design thinking methodology
pioneered by Apple and Stanford’s design school
As you well know, innovation and resilience are becoming increasingly critical in today’s ever-changing economy. To succeed in today’s world, students need to develop a resilient mindset and creative problem solving skills. They need to be able to adapt and pivot. This is what entrepreneurs do and this is what we teach.
We believe innovation can happen anywhere. It’s not confined to the Silicon Valley or Stanford or an MIT incubator. It’s fueled by students’ intellectual curiosity. And it starts with the design thinking methodology and the entrepreneurial resilient mindset.
The skills we teach will ensure students’ success in high school, college, and beyond!
Empower your students and your educators to innovate, launch, and lead by bringing our workshops to your school.
What is design thinking?
It is a straight-forward, step-by-step approach for innovating routinely and systematically. Sometimes called human-centric design, it is an approach to problem solving that puts real people squarely at the center of the design process.
When you embrace design thinking, you develop a new outlook, a new self image, and a new sense of empowerment. It’s wonderfully hopeful and optimistic because it gives you the tools to bring about positive change in the world.
Design thinking is the ideal way to approach solving problems because it is not a static or rigid process. It can adapt with our rapidly changing times, helping us generate workable solutions and lots of them.
What competencies do our workshops develop?
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Students will be able to apply their understanding of the process and characteristics of business development and promotion in order to apply strategies of innovation to personal and professional business pursuits.
Students will be able to use their understanding of idea generation, design thinking, product and business development in order to introduce and process new and effective ideas.
Students will be able to learn from challenges, set-backs, and failure in order to adapt strategies and continue efforts to achieve personal goals.
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Students will be able to use their newly acquired knowledge of personalized service, market demands, and fearless pitching to secure successful sales interactions
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Students will be able to use their critical thinking skills to generate and evaluate solutions as they relate to the needs of the team, customer, and company
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Students will be able to creatively problem solve in order to implement and communicate solutions.
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Students will be able to goal setting to achieve professional goals and understand personal impact.
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Students will be able to use time management skills to plan effectively and accomplish assigned tasks.
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Students will be able to working cooperatively with others to complete tasks, achieve mutual goals, and create professional pitch materials.
About the instructor
Kate Jackson, MA, MBA currently teaches at Northwestern University’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She also led a globally and nationally recognized college entrepreneurship and innovation program. Kate is known for her innovative pedagogical approach to teaching which favors active learning over theory to help students master entrepreneurial habits of mind, resilience, human-centric design, business skills, and persuasive pitching. In addition to being an entrepreneurship and design-thinking educator, Kate is a founder herself. Before launching her own ventures, she worked for some of the largest global corporations, including Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, JP Morgan, and PBS. She received her BA and MA from University of Chicago and MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
