A recent IBM-sponsored survey of 1,541 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders worldwide reported “that events, threats and opportunities aren’t just coming at us faster or with less predictability; they are converging and influencing each other to create entirely unique situations. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity—which has become a more important leadership quality than attributes like management discipline, rigor or operational acumen.” The study uncovered three primary findings...
To answer these challenges, the Georgia State University Robinson College of Business, in partnership with the new Atlanta Innovatrium, has designed a new Certified Professional Innovator Program, which is an executive development program that helps a company generate new ideas, advance collaboration on critical projects, and train an elite group of innovation leaders within the enterprise.
This program features the new Atlanta Innovatrium, which is designed to have three purposes:
The Certified Professional Innovator Program is designed for individuals who want to become part of an elite group of professionals who will lead a company’s innovation and growth projects, and ultimately be responsible for enterprise-wide innovation. It is especially suitable for managers, directors or executives who want to become a future Chief Innovation Officer for either a for-profit company or a not-for-profit organization. Entrepreneurs will also find this program of great value. If you are serious about dramatically improving your innovation knowledge and skills, then this program is for you!
Participants will return to their organization with the knowledge and skills to:
The professors and facilitators use multi-media presentations, case studies, small-group exercises, simulations and “best-practice panels” to deliver the program content. The program agenda includes:
Every journey has a beginning. Day one of the program presents the fundamentals of leading innovation and an in-depth report on your personal, and organizational, approach to innovation as measured by the Competing Values Framework (CVF) online assessment tool. This phase of the program is designed to create the excitement and energy needed to start making innovation happen everywhere, everyday, in your organization. You will also learn about the practices and processes used by the best-in-class innovative organizations. Another objective is to establish a common innovation vocabulary that you can take back to your organization. The anticipated agenda topics include:
What is Innovation?
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Operationalizing Innovation: Understanding
The Competing Values Framework
Diagnosing Your Organization for Innovation—The Competing Values Assessment
Get Smart About the Challenge—Looking Through the Competing Values Quadrants
Day two features DesignThinker® a simulation developed by ExperiencePoint® that builds innovation skills to solve business challenges. This simulation received the Gold Award for Best New Product at the 2011 Edison Awards Gala held in New York City on April 5, 2011. The simulation is a simple, engaging tool that brings design thinking to all aspects of business. It is especially designed to help organizations remove innovation barriers and reach breakthrough ideas faster and more consistently. ExperiencePoint® developed DesignThinker® in collaboration with the innovation and design firm IDEO.
During the simulation, participants are placed into small teams to use the terms, techniques and thought patterns of design thinking to solve a realistic and complex challenge. Facilitated exercises and a computer-mediated game give participants hands-on experience with a process they can apply to any business issue, whether they need to create innovative products and services or connect better with customers. The anticipated agenda topics include:
Pre-Program Assignment
Design Thinking by Tim Brown
Reinventing the Shopping Cart
Introduction to the DesignThinker® Simulation
Experiencing Innovation through the DesignThinker® Simulation—you will learn how to:
This part of the program will provide you with a proven process to rapidly identify innovative ideas while also identifying replicable innovation practices. Program participants will form teams—it is highly recommended that your company send a team of 5-6 employees to the program—to identify a key growth project. Day three will again be a fast-paced, highly-interactive session. As Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and author of Change by Design states; “Ultimately innovation skills are best acquired through doing.” The anticipated agenda topics include:
Drivers of the Future—Where to Find Innovation?
Metrics Within the Competing Values Framework
Group Think Tank
Making the Pitch to the Other Program Participants
Bringing It All Together
The purpose of this session is to help you develop an Innovation Action Plan that will best implement your winning idea. The goal is to identify the best ways to capture the value of the innovation while also integrating the learning into core business practices such as strategic planning, budgeting, and talent management. You will learn how to improve your “creativizing” skills.
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The anticipated agenda topics include:
Action Plan: The Starting Point
Creating the Action Plan: The Three Levels
The Core Competencies Diagnosis
Communication During the Innovation Process
Making Innovation Happen
The key to capturing the value of innovation is mastering the change management process. The ability 
to both innovate and manage organizational change at the same time is a major competitive differentiator in an increasingly complex world. Organizations may have similar objectives, strategies and resources, but those that execute change better, faster and smarter will outdistance the competition.
Day five of the program features the ExperienceChange® simulation, a powerful tool that allows managers and leaders to explore and quickly apply change best practice in a challenging business simulation. The simulation focuses on a fictional company Global Tech which is fraught with realistic change challenges. Through careful application of change management best practices, participants will learn how to build stakeholder buy-in during the change management planning and implementation process. The anticipated agenda topics include:
Pre-Program Assignment
Change Management by John Kotter
Simulation Introduction and Context
Simulation Phase One
Simulation Phase Two
Simulation Phase Three
After program completion, participants will receive a Certificate in Leading Innovation and Growth from Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, and a “Creativizer” Certification from the Atlanta Innovatrium Institute for Innovation. The College offers innovation coaching services for those individuals or teams desiring assistance in implementing the innovation ideas generated during the program.
The Certified Professional Innovator Program can also be customized to fit the unique needs of your organization and industry. The program can be held at your site or at the GSU Executive Education Center in Buckhead Custom clients also qualify for membership in the Atlanta Innovatrium Institute for Innovation which includes exclusive access to lunch-time innovation webinars, white papers written by innovation experts, best-in-class website offering innovation videos, blogs and discussion groups. For details contact Dan Stotz, Senior Director of Executive Education, by phone at 404.413.7407 or by email at dstotz@gsu.edu.
The professors, executives and practitioners who facilitate the program will be determined by the needs of the companies and industries presented in the program and may include the following:
Steve Olson, Ph.D., is a GSU Robinson College of Business Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. He is Co-Faculty Director for the program. Steve fuses theory and practice in leadership, leadership development and ethics in addressing current issues of corporate responsibility. His current work focuses on corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining the Robinson College faculty, he co-founded The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility and then founded the programs in Business and Professional Ethics for Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He taught at Emory’s Goizueta Business School (1992-99) where he served as the Recorder for the Luce Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar. He was also co-founder and managing partner of Generative Consulting, a leadership development firm (1999-2007), whose clients regularly appear on Fortune’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in America” (including the #1 Best Company in 1999).
Arun Rai, Ph.D. is Regents’ Professor and Harkins Chair in Information Systems at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He is Co-Faculty Director for the program. Professor Rai has held visiting appointments at universities in Germany, France, Hong Kong, and Australia. His expertise is in IT-enabled innovation and business value, and IT-enabled governance of interorganizational relationships. He co-founded the Robinson College of Business’ Center for Process Innovation, an interdisciplinary research center that also promotes industry-university partnerships on research. He has received J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Awards for both Outstanding Teaching and Distinguished Contributions in Research. He was appointed Regents’ Professor in 2006 by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia for outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service. Arun has published over 75 refereed journal publications that include publications in leading scholarly journals. He has applied an engaged scholarship model of industry-university partnerships to address scientific problems of practical importance and has collaborated on research projects with major corporations, such as Daimler-Chrysler, Gartner, Georgia-Pacific, IBM, Intel, SAP, SunTrust and UPS, using this model. His research has also been sponsored by thought leadership forums of major corporations such as IBM and SAP. He has chaired 24 doctoral dissertations. Arun has taught in several executive education programs, and has developed successful customized executive education programs for numerous major corporations.
Dave Forquer, M.B.A., is Assistant Dean and Lecturer for Executive Programs at the GSU Robinson College of Business. His specializations include strategy, planning, and supply chain management. Dave’s areas of interest include a broad range of topics around organizational effectiveness, strategic planning, and supply chain management. He has significant experience developing and delivering executive education programs in the above areas using a variety of methods including simulations. He also has experience as a corporate manager, a start-up manager, a university administrator and a teaching faculty. Dave has developed numerous executive development programs for Fortune 500 companies including NCR Corporation, Regions Bank, and UPS to name just a few. He earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Georgia State University.
Lars Mathiassen, Ph.D., is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Professor at the Computer Information Systems Department and Co-Founder of Center for Process Innovation at Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research focuses on development of information services, on IT-enabled innovation of business processes, and on management and facilitation of organizational change processes. He approaches innovation and improvement initiatives with a strong focus on people skills and collaboration while at the same time emphasizing adoption of state-of-the-art technologies and methods. Lars has co-authored several books and has also published extensively in leading academic and practitioner journals. He supervised 23 doctoral dissertations. Lars has served as visiting scholar at Warwick Business School (UK), London School of Economics (UK), Institute Theseus (France), and the Viktoria Institute (Sweden). Lars currently serves as academic director of the Executive Doctorate Program at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
Richard Welke, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Process Innovation, professor and previous chairman of the CIS department at Georgia State University. Prior professorships include appointments in the Netherlands (TU-Delft as Cor Wit Research Professor, Erasmus/RSM as HL, Business Informatics) and Canada (McMaster University). Dr. Welke was co-founder of the information systems discipline's now-major academic organizations, (ICIS, AIS, TIMS College on IS, and IFIP WG 8.2). He has been the ICIS program chair (1986) and co-conference chair (1996) of ICIS as well as serving on its executive committee. He has started, owned and managed two Computer-aided Software Engineering (CASE) companies. More recently he was CIO for two large engineering companies in Atlanta (Law Group, H.J. Russell). His research is published in various books, refereed journals and conference proceedings, primarily in the areas of systems development, methodology engineering and meta models. His current research is focused on ICT-enabled enterprise services and process innovation.
Everett V. Darby, M.B.A., has a proven track record of outstanding organizational leadership in the areas of innovation, strategy, marketing and sales. Everett brings 26 years of executive experience from The Coca-Cola Company and the Monsanto Company to his coaching approach. He has successfully led global cross-functional teams who have launched new products in the consumer goods, chemical, and food industries. Everett earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Morehouse College and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Kimberly Douglas, M.S., SPHR and President of FireFly Facilitation, is a nationally-recognized expert with more than 25 years of experience building the effectiveness of teams. Her unique ability to read group dynamics and think “on the fly” is a product of her natural talent and executive experience. She has consulted and coached with numerous clients including ADP, AT&T, Cbeyond, Cisco, Delta, and McKesson. Kimberly is a former senior executive of The Coca-Cola Company and author of The Firefly Effect: Build Teams That Capture Creativity and Catapult Results (Wiley).
Dan Stotz, M.S., is Senior Director of Executive Education and Lecturer at the Georgia State University Robinson College of Business. He has 23 years of experience designing senior-level training programs that integrate the topics of leadership, strategy, change management, and innovation. Past and current clients include Cox Communications, FBI Crime Labs, GE Energy, GE Healthcare, McKesson Technology Solutions, NCR Corporation, and the NASA Johnson Space Center. Dan is a popular speaker on the subject of innovation in strategic marketing. He earned a M.S. in Management from Colorado State University.
Deborah Butler, Ph.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Managerial Sciences at the Robinson College of Business and Faculty Director of the College’s Innovation Coaching Services. Professor Butler has been with GSU since 1997, during that time her teaching focus has been organizational behavior, organizational theory, and leadership coaching. She has been a champion for bringing the world of business into the classroom. Her international teaching and coaching experiences have been in Baku, Auzerbaijan, Miaguez, Puerto Rico, Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, and Poznan.
Tom Akins, President of BrightStar Leadership Consulting, is a master coach and consultant with more than 25 years of coaching, consulting and corporate banking leadership experience. He is often called upon by CEOs for individual and team coaching in the areas of leadership development, change management, M&A, organizational innovation and strategic planning. Tom has extensive global consulting experience with clients including Disney, Merck, Lowes, Lockheed Martin, Turner Broadcasting, Home Depot, Bank of America, FedEx, GE, and LifePoint Hospitals.
Adam Billing is a Senior Associate of Bridge Consulting International and Director of Bridge Collaboration Ltd in London, UK. He is an experienced consultant and facilitator, specializing in large group accelerated design programs. His career began at Ernst & Young LLP where he utilized a wide range of accelerated and collaborative design techniques to support innovation. Adam has worked with clients across industries to foster and embed new product/service and business model innovation. He has an MBA and a Masters in International Affairs, special focus on India & China.
Everett V. Darby has a proven track record of outstanding organizational leadership in the areas of innovation, strategy, marketing and sales. Everett brings 26 years of executive experience from The Coca-Cola Company and the Monsanto Company to his coaching approach. He has led global cross-functional teams who have launched new products in the consumer goods, chemical, and food industries. Everett earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Morehouse College and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Kimberly Douglas, M.S., SPHR and President of FireFly Facilitation, is a nationally-recognized expert with more than 25 years of experience building the effectiveness of teams. Her unique ability to read group dynamics and think “on the fly” is a product of her natural talent and executive experience. She has consulted and coached with numerous clients including ADP, AT&T, Cbeyond, Cisco, Delta, and McKesson. Kimberly is a former senior executive of The Coca-Cola Company and author of The Firefly Effect: Build Teams That Capture Creativity and Catapult Results (Wiley).
Ted Kneidl, Certified Professional Coach, has 30+ years of business experience including rapid advancement in corporate America and successful entrepreneurial ventures. His coaching approach combines a proven process, a focus on results, and adaptability to the client’s needs. For over seven years, Ted has coached executives, “high potentials,” and teams for clients such as: AT&T, Turner Broadcasting, KBR, HealthSouth, Siemens, Nestle, Regions Bank, Milliken, Fast Company Magazine, CARE, UCB, and others. Ted holds a BS in Industrial Management and an MBA.
Tony Klingmeyer, Master Certified Coach, has coached hundreds of executives in companies as diverse as American Express, Newell Rubbermaid, Pfizer, Host Marriott, Auto Trader, and KPMG. With more than 15 years of coaching experience, he specializes in on-boarding newly-hired or promoted executives and developing high-potentials identified for executive promotion. Prior to coaching, Tony has held multi-functional leadership roles during 15 years in Hospitality Management and Development, culminating as the GM/VP Operations of several large business units.
Augusta Horsey Nash, Master Certified Coach, is the Director of CPS, an executive coaching business. She is know for achieving impressive coaching results based on self-trust, confidence and a dedication to implementing innovation. Augusta has 25 years of varied professional experience in academia, industry, and government. Prior to coaching, she worked in Her Majesty’s National Curriculum in Great Britain, SunTrust Bank, and The Coca-Cola Company. Her executive coaching clients have included CH2HILL, Google, Hewlett Packard, KPMG, Quaker Oats, and many more.
Tamara O’Neill, President of Careers on Course, “inspires and ignites her clients to connect with people and organizations in ways that bring out the best in them, lifting them to a higher level of integration with their own values, goals and skills.” (G. Jones, Chief HR Officer, a leading direct marketing agency). Tamara is a Registered Corporate Coach and has a B.S. in Communication Arts and MS and MBA, University of Maryland University College. Presently she serves as President of SHRM-Atlanta. A partial client list includes The Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Carnival Cruise Lines, Comcast Cable, Randstad USA, Habitat for Humanity International and Global Payments.
Betsy Pickren, M.Ed., PCC, is Co-Founder of Exceleration Partners and President of Facilitated Learning. She specializes in working with senior leaders responsible for translating positive intentions into positive action. Betsy is a credentialed coach through the International Coach Association. While at Zenger-Miller, an award-winning leadership development organization, she pioneered cutting edge learning methodologies for the Client Services Division. Betsy’s clients include HealthSouth, St. Jude’s Children's Hospital, and Turner Broadcasting to name just a few.
Shannon Schultz, ACC, is Managing Partner of Affinity Leadership Group. Through a seasoned blend of systems change strategy, group process facilitation and executive coaching, Shannon is consistently recognized as a guiding presence in transforming the way organizations operate to improve performance. She earned an MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management at the University of Georgia and has consulted and coached clients across numerous industries, including the Centers for Disease Control, Furniture Brands International, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Michelin.
Karen Steadman, Ph.D., is an executive assessor and coach that optimizes the performance of leaders in complex systems. Her specialty is advising analytical leaders who are “beyond smart” of the best strategies for leveraging the human factor with their teams, organizations, and shareholders. She is a licensed psychologist who graduated with highest honors in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia. She has been a leadership coach all over the world.
Paul J. Voss, Ph.D., president of Ethikos and an Associate Professor at Georgia State University, provides a unique approach to leadership and executive coaching. His innovative style (employing classics from literature, history and art) moves a person from theory to practice, from the imagined to the real. Dr. Voss publishes widely on a variety of topics and regularly appears on television and radio. His corporate clients include McKesson Technology Solutions, General Electric Energy, Chubb Insurance, Best Buy, the FBI Crime Labs, Global Payments, Duke Realty, Cox Communications, and many others.
Patricia Wheeler, Ph.D., is Managing Partner of The Levin Group, a global leadership advisory firm. With more than 25 years of coaching and consulting experience, she works with leaders around the world who must innovate and deliver exceptional business results within an environment of rapid change and increasing complexity. Her management experience is within the healthcare industry. Her clients have included Johnson & Johnson, The Coca-Cola Company, Marathon Petroleum, Lowe’s, Ernst & Young, The Gap, and Raytheon. She is a contributor to Best Practices in Organizational Development and the AMA Handbook of Leadership.
Jenny Whitener, CEO of Bridge Consulting International, LLC, is known for accelerating business transformation by maximizing the power of leadership, creativity and collaboration. She is an experienced facilitator and architect of large scale collaborative design. Clients include Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, Kaiser Permanente, Premier Inc, Prudential, and many others. Prior to founding Bridge, Jenny was a member of the global leadership team for Capgemini/Ernst & Young and co-led their new service innovation capability. Jenny is a UGA graduate with advanced studies in design thinking. She coaches senior leaders around the globe.
The Innovatrium (Innovation + Atrium) is an innovation development community that combines private and public entities including leading companies, universities, top faculty, students, and best-in-class growth and innovation experts. The focus is on growth through the development of innovation practices and leaders quickly generating ideas. The mission of the Innovatrium is to be to the business of innovation what the Julliard School is to music, bringing together master artists, teachers and students in a collaborative effort to create new ideas, skills and practices.
The Atlanta Innovatrium is an active space for generating new ideas, advancing collaboration on critical projects, and training innovation leaders. The Innovatrium combines the latest workplace knowledge from Haworth with leading innovation practices to illustrate how space can support collaboration and innovation. The Atlanta Innovatrium is located within the Haworth Atlanta Showroom located in the Terminus 200 building at the corner of Piedmont and Peachtree Roads in Buckhead.
For more information about the Atlanta Innovatrium, the Certified Professional Innovator Program and Innovation Coaching Services, please contact Dan Stotz, Senior Director of Executive Education, by phone at 404-413-7407 or by email at dstotz@gsu.edu.
| INNOVATION FOUNDATION COURSE: Regular price: $6,000 Early bird/team price: $5,500 Custom client, non-profit and GSU alum/faculty/staff price: $5,500 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: $3,750 When:The Innovation Foundation Course is offered in a cohort format, which means the three three-day modules will start when a minimum of 20 individuals have applied and been accepted into the CPI program. The five-day Leadership Development Program is offered three different times during a year. See the LDP website for the latest dates » Location: Buckhead Centerdirections » Brochure: download » Application: To begin the application process, contact Dan Stotz, senior director of Executive Education, at dstotz@gsu.edu or 404-413-7407. |
