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Mid-Atlantic Facilitators Network

Design Thinking: Building Creative Confidence in Organizations to Tackle Strategic Planning and Other Efforts

  • 06/24/2016
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Government Accountability Office (GAO), 441 G St, NW, Washington, DC, 7th floor, Room 7N36, classroom 9

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Design thinking is an approach to innovation that, through effective facilitation, can unleash energy, creativity, and powerful new ideas. While often associated with product and service design, the principles of Design Thinking can be used in a variety of facilitated processes to reframe common tasks and engage meeting participants in fun ways. This workshop will introduce participants to the Design Thinking process and demonstrate how it can be applied in a variety of settings, including strategic planning. Specifically, participants will walk away with the following:
•    Awareness of the principles and practice of facilitating a Design Thinking process
•    Insights from examples and cases of Design Thinking in action
•    New skills gained through an experiential design thinking activity
•    Understanding of how the Design Thinking framework can be applied to the strategic planning process


Mariana Balgurevich

Mariana Balgurevich is an experienced innovation consultant and will be leading the workshop. She is a passionate advocate of collaboration as a source of innovation, and she's been inspired by the Design Thinking methodology to approaching complex problems and to build the creative confidence in organizations. She has led or co-led ten Design Thinking workshops and will be sharing her most recent experience in putting together a 3-day public Design Thinking Bootcamp and the elements that made the event a success.


 
Patrick Tallarico, CPF

Patrick Tallarico will be assisting Mariana in the delivery of the workshop. He has been facilitating for over 20 years. Although his work has focused primarily on environmental topics, he has also provided facilitation support for organizational improvement efforts, strategic planning, supplier engagement efforts, and change management initiatives. He has a certificate in Design Thinking obtained through the Acumen/OPEN IDEO program and has been finding ways to integrate Design Thinking principles into his work as a result of this experience.

If you pay for an individual MAFN workshop session and cancel before the registration deadline, MAFN will either credit your full registration fee towards a future workshop or process a refund, less a processing fee.


There will be no refunds or credits for cancellations received after the registration deadline.


Refunds, less a processing fee, are only available for workshop series subscribers until the September workshop of each year.

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