Imagine a high school that started with design thinking and leadership training. Imagine having the opportunity to prototype a solution to a community problem and earn a provisional patent. Student ...

I didn't realize it, but I've been following the steps in design thinking for my entire career, which goes back to 1978. Around then, the company that would become the design firm IDEO was credited ...

Design thinking is gaining a prominent place in institutions, public spaces and organisations. It is now influencing everyone ...

In retrospect, 2023 felt like the closing of a chapter. At least for a class of design leaders, who spent more than a decade participating in a massive expansion of design’s role across every sector ...

There are multiple tools, techniques, and training programs that aim to enhance leadership performance. Yet, many leaders still struggle with complexity, uncertainty, and the inability to align ...

As an advisor to Fortune 100 companies, I’ve witnessed first-hand how inclusive design leads to products, services, and innovations that better serve our customers and clients. When it comes to ...

"Where success is concerned, people are not measured by inches, or pounds, or by college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking." – David Schwartz As a leader, ...

In today's ever-evolving corporate landscape, achieving success transcends traditional hierarchical management. The concept of systems leadership, especially in the context of commercial enterprises, ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...

For Erin Park Cohn ’00, the director of Smith’s Wurtele Center for Leadership, developing leadership skills isn’t solely about inner reflection, but also about outward impact. “As a leadership center, ...

Fire service leaders face countless challenges. The traditional reactive approach to emergencies often fails to address the underlying causes contributing to these emergencies. To maintain relevance ...