Innovation into Action (D2)

• Recognize why many leaders and members of organizations confuse innovation with the creation of ideas.
• Explore how systems-thinking developed for large corporate businesses can be applied to the nonprofit sector and involve staff and stakeholders at all levels to work together toward greater outcomes.
• Learn how to apply an innovative systems mindset, in a world of continuous change and complex technological and societal changes to bring ideas to implementation.

FACULTY:
Jesse Bechtold, CEO, Innovation Engineering Network, Eureka! Ranch, Cincinnati, OH
Nancy Toscano, PhD, Vice President, Strategy and Organizational Improvement, UMFS, Richmond, VA