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SHORT COURSE: INNOVATION METHODS & MINDSET
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Learn methods and approaches that drive innovation, from leading industry practitioners. Become more resilient, collaborative, and confident.
Experts in Design Research, Nightingale supports successful innovation in organisations of all sizes, across healthcare, transport, retail and the creative industries. Their team work at the very early stages of idea generation and discovery, through to the implementation of market-ready products and services.
Frances is a psychologist who worked in academic research before moving into the world of human centred design over ten years ago. She has worked with a wide range of teams, from large government organisations to early stage startups, to deliver high quality qualita- tive and quantitative research that feeds into and shapes innovative design. She is skilled at working with teams to facilitate communication, ideation and product development.
Active Matter is an experience design studio for people on a mission. They partner with corporate and scale-up teams at moments of reinvention and growth. Together, they design products and services that improve experiences, open new markets, and redefine categories.
Founder of two award-winning design studios, Tom has worked with leaders from some of the world’s biggest brands including Vodafone, Diageo, Lenovo and Mercedes to define and execute strategies that build competitive differentiation and grow custom- er loyalty. His mission is to accelerate positive ideas and the people they come from.
With a wealth of creative experience and extensive innovation management knowledge, Creative Switch offers services that go beyond traditional design. They support their clients to think about how creativity and design can help them to solve their problems, meet their purpose and create brighter futures.
Kath is a creative specialist with 20 years experience in design and innovation management. Working as a Senior Designer at Macmillan Cancer Support and other well-known charities helped cement her belief that design has the power to help transform lives. Kath works alongside a team of trusted specialists to deliver propositions, brand identities, campaigns, and creative strategies for some of the UK’s leading organisations.
Turnkey is on a mission to turn startups into scaleups. They help founders deliver sustainable growth by embedding a team of experts into their business, giving them ‘the board they can’t afford’ in exchange for equity in the venture.
Craig has over 20 years’ experience of working with the most recognisable brands in the world, such as John Lewis, BMW, LV=, Mercedes Benz and Direct Line, to design and implement customer and employee strategies. Author of ‘Beyond Brand – Why It’s The Experience That Causes People To Fall In Love With Your Brand’, Craig has turned his methodology into a model that can be used with businesses of all sizes.
Smallfry is a renowned design consultancy that’s developed commercially successful products across the consumer, medical, industrial, and service industries since their foundation in the UK’s industrial and automotive heartlands.
Steve May-Russell is a leading Industrial Design and Innovation Consultant and the CEO of the Smallfry. Steve has represented the creative industries on the UK Trade & Investment’s bi-lateral partnerships in East Asia and is regularly invited to speak to international audiences on Innovation and using Design to develop brands. Steve lectures at Cranfield, Cambridge University, Coventry University and Loughborough.
Alex is a Service Designer and User Experience Consultant who believes in the fundamental importance of user-centred transformation and instils its principles in everything he does.Alex is a Service Designer and User Experience Consultant who believes in the fundamental importance of user-centred transformation and instils its principles in everything he does.
Alex has spent over 20 years designing user-centred experiences and growing highly talented design and strategy teams. This has shaped him into an experienced practitioner, leader, speaker, coach and mentor. Alex has led on programmes of work that assess and improve the capability and culture of organisations to use user-centred outputs in effecting meaningful and measurable change.