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Whether your thing is reducing carbon emissions, cleaning up the oceans, defending biodiversity, eliminating poverty, making waste circular or some other social or environmental challenge – sustainability is a complex issue.
You’ve probably got ambitious targets like net zero emissions, zero waste or going circular.
But … you are finding that progress is difficult, attracting the right resources and investment is a constant struggle, stakeholders are dug into positions and the status quo feels impossible to change.
Without the right tools many sustainability efforts start off with positive beginnings but eventually get stuck and are unable to scale.
You probably feel like you are going around in circles (and not the good circular economy kind!).
You don’t have to do this on your own. Our menu includes a variety innovation workshops, training, and full service sustainability programs that will take your teams from stalled to making real progress.
New!! – 1 Day Circular Economy Kickstarter Course Coming Soon
Our Circular Economy Kickstarter workshop is coming soon where you will learn how to turn your circular economy ambitions into actionable projects so you can start kicking some circular economy goals!
In this workshop you will:
- Get hands on experience in systems thinking tools;
- Discover how to quickly identify circular economy opportunities;
- Understand the data you will need to track and report on your circular economy outcomes; and
- Map out a plan to develop your own Circular Economy Action Plan.
By the end of the workshop you will know how to move your circular economy objectives from ambition to action.
Starters
Brief and to the point – our starter menu includes short 2-3 hour workshops that will get your project moving in the right direction.
Rapid Strategy Planner
Helps teams define a sustainability vision of where they want to go. Then, the exercise will help them identify risks, what slows them down, and what contributes to them achieving their objectives. This exercise is a great way to key people from within your business engaged (finance, procurement, engineering etc) and does not require any specific level of maturity.
Duration – 2 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Business Model Design
One of the most impactful ways to deliver sustainability outcomes is with the right business model. This workshop helps you to visualise a new sustainable business model idea or an organisation’s current and/or future business model in order to create a shared understanding and highlight key drivers.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Lightning Idea Jam
Need to quickly generate ideas for your sustainability action plan? Don’t waste time with useless brainstorming session. This workshop includes an incredibly flexible combination of activities, taking the best of the world’s problem-solving processes (Design thinking, gamestorming, Design Sprints, and Agile, to name a few) and crushing them down to their absolute essence to help you rapidly create game-changing ideas.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Stakeholder Mapping
Identify and prioritise your key stakeholders to assist in designing new products or services, developing your strategies, or executing a project.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Stakeholder Profiling
Successful sustainability strategies require engaging with stakeholders. This workshop draws upon design thinking and human centred design to help you get “inside” your stakeholder heads! Understand stakeholders better to effectively communicate your strategy and engage with stakeholders.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online or In-person
Ecosystems Mapping
Ecosystem mapping is a useful tool that can be used to visualise your business or product and the stakeholders, systems, processes, and the material and financial flows that surround it. It this workshop your team will discover how to leverage ecosystem mapping to identify opportunities, come up with product ideas, identify potential customers, and even develop whole business concepts.
Duration – 3 hours
Format – Online – In-person
Team Building
Short fun activities where learning and laughs are the name of the game. Great for team building whilst improving sustainability skills and knowledge.
Pitch It
1 day workshop where your teams learn the art of storytelling as they work to create a fun and engaging pitch for their innovation idea. The day culminates with a pitch off to determining the best pitch of the day.
Duration – 1 day
Format – In-person
The Apprentice
If the TV show ‘The Apprentice’, ‘Shark Tank’ and ‘The Amazing Race’ had a baby it would look a lot like this workshop. A fun challenge based workshop where teams work to come up with the best sustainability ideas possible, implement them, and get results in under 8 hours!
Duration – 1 day
Format – In-person
1 Day Prototype
Go from idea to prototype in just one day. In this one day workshop teams ideate, sketch and produce a lo-fi prototype to bring their idea to life and then present it to the group.
Duration – 1 day
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version for remote team working in face to face groups
Multi-day
Need something a little more substantial? These 2-3 day workshops will hit the mark.
Idea to Prototype
3 x 1 day “hackathon-style” workshops where your teams work to ideate, validate, prototype, and pitch their idea for a new sustainability product or initiative for your organisation.
Duration – 3 days
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version available
Back to the Future
Using a technique called Futurecasting this 2 day workshop gets to the fundamental issues about designing a strategy roadmap to deal with potential future scenarios. Futurecasting is essentially a disruption simulator. The process is fun and interactive and involves getting people design roadmaps that are resilient to disruption.
Duration – 2 days
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version available
Behavioural Design
This 2 day training program will teach you the fundamental skills of how to use behavioural science to improve the performance and impact of your sustainable product or initiative.
Duration – 2 days
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version available
Innovation Bootcamp
This 2 day training program will enhance your teams innovation superpowers. We’ve taken the best of the world’s innovation methods (Design thinking, gamestorming, Design Sprints, to name a few) and crushed them down to their absolute essence to give your team practical innovation skills they can immediately apply in your business.
Duration – 2 days
Format – Best done In-person but a modified online version available
Full Programs
More extensive programs for creating full sustainability strategies.
Sustainability and Circular Economy Accelerator Programs
Our accelerator programs are designed to bring cross functional teams together to quickly and efficiently develop your sustainability or circular economy initiatives. The accelerators include four modules that take your team from foundational knowledge and skills through to building a business case for the accelerator outputs.
Duration – Typically 12 – 26 weeks
Venture Builder
We work with established organisations to imagine, build, and scale new businesses and develop the capabilities needed to do it again and again. Our business-building methodology brings together the flexibility of a start-up with the resources and experience of a corporation. We build with clients, not for them, as one integrated team. By focusing on capabilities, we create businesses that continue to thrive after we’ve gone.
Our Venture Builder program offers you the chance to build your own start-up inside an incumbent business.
Duration – Typically 9-12 months
Getting started is as easy as 1,2,3…
Schedule a Call
Schedule a free 15min online consultation where we will get a bit more information from you on your needs. After this consultation we will send you a custom proposal.
Accept the Proposal
Simply accept the quote and let the innovation begin!
Unleash your Innovation Superpowers!
We’ll deliver your workshop or program that will help make innovation so easy you will feel like you have superpowers!