Co-creation for
Innovative
Problem-Solving
DURATION: Two full days
FORMAT: Live in-person (instructor led)
DATES: Spring 2025, dates to be announced
LOCATION: Washington, DC
Learn how to lead collaborative work that drives innovation and impact by designing with, not for internal and external stakeholders.
(Reserve your spot now and pay later)
Why This Course?
Embark on a transformative journey into the world of co-creation and co-design to sharpen your collaborative problem-solving and human-centered design skills. This hands-on learning experience will equip you with the mindset, methods, and tools needed to orchestrate collaborative innovation in any context.
During the course you will:
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Frame complex challenges through a co-creative lens, applicable to both business and societal issues
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Engage diverse stakeholders to fuel breakthrough ideas, bridging organizational and systemic boundaries
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Design inclusive working sessions that promote collective problem-solving in varied organizational contexts
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Craft participatory experiences that turn stakeholders, customers, and citizens into co-creators
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Explore applications of co-creation and co-design in for-profit versus not-for-profit contexts
Through a combination of interactive presentation, real-world case studies, small team activities and expert coaching, you'll enhance your co-creation skills in real-time. You will tackle a live challenge, immediately applying co-creation principles and tools from the course to plan, design and run a collaborative working session.
This course fosters a collaborative environment where you will learn alongside fellow innovators and change-makers. Guest practitioners will share their insights and experiences from successful co-creation projects, providing valuable lessons from the field.
Join us to deepen your understanding of co-creation and enhance your ability to lead collaborative efforts effectively.
Learning
Objectives
At the completion of this course, participants will have learned:
- Why and when to use co-creation for problem-solving and innovation
- When and how to acknowledge issues of equity, power, and bias while co-creating
- How to frame a co-creation challenge and define success for your project
- Ways to include various types of stakeholders (customers, citizens, employees, colleagues, etc.) in a co-creation project
- How to plan, design and prepare for a co-creation working session
'Learning-by-Doing'
Online Format
We believe that experience is the best teacher. That is why our format for this course uses a hands-on, “learning-by-doing” method that fits perfectly with the iterative nature of the design process. You will connect with your instructors and fellow participants through Zoom and learn to use a set of innovation design tools using the virtual whiteboard application MURAL.
Program
This course will take you through an immersive learning journey where you will delve into the following key topics of co-creation:
Setting the stage for learning
Meet your fellow course participants, learn co-creation theory, hear about real-world applications, and prepare for the hands-on learning experience to come.
Framing the challenge
Frame your co-creation challenge and desired outcomes while exploring how co-creation can result in more customer-centric and user-friendly solutions.
Co-creating at the project level
Engage stakeholders in an inclusive, collaborative project and scope out when, where and how you will incorporate co-creation and co-design in the process.
Designing a co-creation session
Design your co-creation sessions and choose activities that encourage your participants to empathize with stakeholders and build solutions that work across the organization or system.
Preparing for a successful session
Finalize your co-creation session agenda, prepare your facilitation team, and make a plan for developing co-creation deliverables that can drive implementation of your solutions.
Applying co-creation and reflection
Practice facilitating a co-creation session with your fellow course participants, discuss tips for impactful facilitation, and apply course lessons to your own co-creation work.
Materials, Certification & Coaching
Participants will receive the following upon successful completion of the course:
- A course handbook including all templates and method instructions used in the course in both PDF and Mural formats
- A copy of course presentations and reference materials
- A certificate of course completion from reshift
- One hour of personal coaching with a course instructor after course completion
Course Instructors
Marc
Bolick
Founder
Marc is founder and managing partner of reshift, an innovation support partner for leaders and teams who seek to innovate and drive big change. He draws on decades of experience in product and service innovation to facilitate collaborative problem solving and co-creation to drive impact for the most complex challenges organizations face.
Ezequiel
Williams
Sr. Facilitator
Ezequiel is a business strategist, service designer, ethnographer, and innovation consultant passionate about helping organizations better understand their customers and create offerings that people want and drive brand loyalty. He has designed and facilitated co-creation workshops for Fortune 500 firms to help those clients develop value for their customers as well as their employees.
Bre
Przestrzelski
Sr. Facilitator & Instructor
Bre currently leads Projekt (Polish for "Design") Consulting, Inc, partnering with institutions rooted in community empowerment and equitable change. Over the past 10 years, Bre has coached a global community of learners at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University and co-taught a myriad of courses offered by IDEO U. When they aren't doing the above, Bre chases sunsets and fails miserably at cooking.
Steve
Bosak
Partner
Steve, a partner at reshift, has deep experience guiding clients in a wide range of industries to use human-centered design and co-creation to improve their services and products. Whether it’s a tech company trying to improve its customer service or an organization seeking ways to tackle climate change problems, Steve enjoys helping clients build a deeper understanding of their stakeholders and helping them develop solutions to their challenges.
Enrollment Details
PRICE:
(50% off for this first-time course)
Early Bird (first 10 tickets) $1,400 $700 USD
Regular (last 10 tickets) $1,600 $800 USD
DATES:
Spring 2025, dates to be announced
(Reserve your spot now and pay later)