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Innovate Your Culture:

Preconference Workshop

PreCon 2025

Tuesday, August 5th, 2025

The Madison Concourse Hotel

Madison, WI 

Agenda:

12:30PM: Registration and Networking

1:00PM: Workshop

5:00PM: Happy Hour & Innovation Showcase

7:30PM: Adjourn

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Innovate Your Culture: Mindset, Skills and Action for New Growth

Key Benefits:

  • Become a transformational leader who fosters innovation and inspires new ideas.

  • Master the principles of design thinking to teach others how to innovate.

  • Make your meetings more dynamic and engaging with design thinking facilitation.

  • Collaborate with peers to design an actionable innovation program for your organization.

  • Leave with a toolkit of resources you can immediately apply.

  • Learn simple, practical techniques to integrate innovation into daily practices.

 

Workshop Overview: Leading innovation across an organization is both essential and challenging in today's fast-paced world. Many teams have mastered execution but lack the skills for innovation. This workshop bridges that gap, equipping you with the tools to foster a culture of innovation that drives new growth and creative problem-solving.

Through a hands-on, collaborative experience, you’ll learn how to lead more interactive, human-centered meetings and workshops. By applying design thinking techniques, you'll confidently guide others to generate fresh ideas and solutions. This workshop isn’t just about theory—it's about putting those skills into practice right away.

Expect to participate in creative activities, co-create solutions with your peers, and leave with the knowledge and confidence to implement design thinking for innovation. Whether you’re leading a team, facilitating workshops, or driving organizational change, this workshop will help you become a catalyst for transformation.

What’s Next:

Following the workshop, you'll receive complimentary access to additional online resources, workshops, and guides that reinforce what you’ve learned and support your ongoing innovation journey.

Trainer

Your Trainer
Darin Eich Innovation Training

Dr. Darin Eich

Founder

InnovationTraining.org

Dr. Darin Eich is the founder of InnovationTraining.org and author of Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Create & Develop Ideas for your Challenge and Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs. He is a widely sought after design thinking expert, innovation workshop leader and keynote speaker as the CEO of Innovation Learning. Darin is known for making innovation fun, simple, and contagious to pass on. Darin has helped over 100 organizations from Silicon Valley to Boston to Singapore and Berlin with their culture of innovation. Darin designs and facilitates programs used by over 1 million people that have been featured in USA TODAY and offered dozens of times by the University of Wisconsin and Dartmouth College. He started in design thinking more than 10 years ago as the president of BrainReactions where he led projects for clients like P&G and the United Nations.   

Attendee Testimonials

Thank you for generously sharing your insights, expertise, and valuable resources. I especially appreciate the gift you have for creating an environment where participants can learn from one another, are challenged to try new activites in a safe space, and have fun all at the same time. The best part of the workshop is that it never really ended!

Thank you for teaching state of the art techniques on how to build a more innovative workplace culture through design thinking.  I've already used several of your techniques to make our team meetings more engaging, fun, and productive. We're generating more ideas, cultivating empathy, and taking action more so than we ever did before!

 During the workshop, I picked up a lot of tips and simple techniques that can be used throughout the workday. Things that will help me translate [innovation] theory into the practice. For me, the workshop was about affirmation and confidence for becoming a more transformational leader that helps others learn and start new ideas. 

Innovation Showcase

Innovation Showcase

Network with conference attendees, speakers and event partners and hear short presentations from innovative companies who are developing products and services that are driving the future of work. More speaker announcements coming soon!

Dr. Maggie Redling

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  • LinkedIn - Black Circle

Wrestling With Talent is transforming the HR landscape through a unique blend of art, science, and fun in talent management. We leverage creativity and strategic thinking to tackle organizational challenges and celebrate successes, ensuring our clients thrive in a dynamic business environment.

Our leadership development programs elevate managers into visionary leaders, while our performance management solutions drive tangible results with a focus on continuous improvement. We specialize in providing fractional HR services that deliver tailored expert support without the overhead of a full-time team.

Coleman Williams

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  • LinkedIn - Black Circle

Wrestling With Talent is transforming the HR landscape through a unique blend of art, science, and fun in talent management. We leverage creativity and strategic thinking to tackle organizational challenges and celebrate successes, ensuring our clients thrive in a dynamic business environment.

Our leadership development programs elevate managers into visionary leaders, while our performance management solutions drive tangible results with a focus on continuous improvement. We specialize in providing fractional HR services that deliver tailored expert support without the overhead of a full-time team.

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