Certificate in Strategic Leadership and Innovation: Managing the New Organization for Growth
This advanced certificate equips leaders with the framework you need to lead strategic innovation projects.
Innovation is a key part of the strategic planning process for any business, and every leader needs to know how to manage innovation initiatives.
Innovation is the #1 strategic driver to grow your business. Whether launching new products or improved manufacturing and IT systems, this program is ideal for VPs and managers tasked with finding new ways to create value for their customers and their organizations.
The Best Part:
- Create a customized innovation leadership plan with turn-key strategic frameworks
- Identify new strategies, opportunities and challenges within your department and the entire organization
Who Should Attend
Recommended for all leaders who want to develop the capability to lead and manage innovation – from strategic planning to operational initiatives.
- Directors, vice-presidents, and senior managers of business units
- National, regional and international division managers
- Strategic planners and corporate advisers
- IT operations, marketing, sales, quality and manufacturing managers
- Functional department heads
- Public sector departmental leaders
- Leaders on critical organizational priorities
What You Will Learn
- How to link innovation planning to your current and future business strategies
- Lead successful innovation initiatives in any area of your organization
- Target areas of your organization where you need strategic innovation
- Learn how culture impacts leadership success
- Apply design thinking to innovation efforts
- Embed an innovation process in your team or organizational approach
- Execute innovations through change management and innovation planning
Key Skills & Competencies
In just five days, develop new strategic skills and competencies in:
- Integrating an innovation playbook with your strategic plans
- Creating competitive advantage through innovation strategy
- Spotting and seizing untapped business opportunities
- Using design thinking to foster innovation acceleration
- Building lasting breakthroughs through cultural innovation
- Creating systemic innovation
- Rebooting stalled initiatives
- Making new ideas happen
- Creating an "open innovation" approach
- Applying systems thinking for an integrated approach to delivering growth
- Fostering an opportunity mindset with your people
Bonus Course Materials – Pre-Work
- Take the FOURSIGHT™ Breakthrough Thinking Profile
- Complete innovation survey
- Read selected innovation articles
Day 1: Innovation: The Fundamentals
Module 1: The Essential Links
- Defining innovation in your organization
- Determining the appropriate level and type
- Ensuring strategic alignment
Module 2: Embedding Innovation
- Critical nature of innovative thinking
- Challenges and strategic approaches to innovation
- Effective risk assessment
Day 2: Planning Innovation
Module 3: How Much and What Kind of Innovation Do You Want?
- From incremental to disruptive
- Techniques for determining the appropriate degree of innovation
- Ensure you and your organization are not 'blindsided'
Module 4: Making Innovation Happen
- Building the case for change
- Determining the level and degree of organizational change
- Creating an Innovation Playbook
Day 3: Design Thinking
Module 5: Innovative Company Site Visits
- Site visits with an emphasis on culture, space and engagement
Module 6: Implications for Innovation
- The critical nature of insights
- The design process and application
- Outsmarting your Competition
Day 4: The Process and the Practice
Module 7: Innovation as a Practice
- Applying the FOURSIGHT™ profile
- Shake, stir and remix your team
Module 8: Innovation as a Process
- The five-step innovation process
- Develop expertise in each critical step
- The magic of creative techniques
Day 5: Leading Innovation
Module 9: The Culture of Innovation
- Culture as an enabler
- How a culture can suppress innovation
- Transforming an existing culture into an innovative one
Module 10: Leading Breakthroughs
- Leading self, teams and enterprise wide innovations
- Mindset, tool set and skill set integration
Program Take-Aways
- An innovation playbook capturing all tools/techniques and frameworks needed to establish and implement innovation
- Your personal FOURSIGHT™ Breakthrough Thinking Profile
- Targeted and relevant take-away articles on applying innovation
- A network of current innovation practitioners, plus follow-up coaching
Instructors
 Lee-Anne McAlear
Lee-Anne McAlear is co-director of the Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation Management for the Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University.Lee-Anne is an experienced facilitator, writer, consultant and speaker with a background in innovation, leadership development, strategic planning and team effectiveness.
She has worked with teams around the world (27 countries, five continents) in many forums (planning and training sessions, conferences, key note speaking etc.) and in many sectors, both public and private. Lee-Anne has been responsible for delivering an extensive range of award-winning training initiatives; facilitating executive teams through strategic planning and consulting in the area of innovation.
Lee-Anne has led a number of leadership conferences for clients as diverse as Johnson & Johnson, Baxter Health Care, Rich’s Food Group International, CIBC, Fidelity Investments and Ontario Heart and Stroke.
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 Megan Mitchell
Consultant, speaker, author and educator, Megan is Director of Happen North America, an insight-based innovation company, and co-director of SEEC’s Centre of Excellence in Applied Innovation Management. Megan is an accomplished leader in Innovation, Leadership Development and Change Management, with nearly 20 years of experience across multiple disciplines at Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. She helps companies transform through culture and targeted innovation initiatives that push boundaries. Her passion is leadership effectiveness to build innovation capacity and helping organizations build a culture of innovation. She is a winner of the W.E. Upjohn Award for Innovation. Megan is a regular contributor to the World Future Society and Mindcamp Creativity conferences and is part of the faculty for SEEC’s Masters Certificate in Business Leadership for Human Resource Professionals, which runs bi-annually.
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