Individual coaching and training for solo innovators—even those who don’t yet believe in their own creativity.

Develop skills and tools for creative problem-solving:

• Finding enthusiasm on boring problems

• Boosting personal creativity & getting unstuck

• Selling innovative ideas to colleagues and stakeholders

Or else solve the problem now:

• Tackle a creative problem

• Test & iterate on your ideas

• Decide among possible solutions

• Recover from failure

Individual coaching and training for leaders of emerging creative teams. Learn how to lead your team to innovation, even when your team doesn’t believe that they’re “creative.”

• Foster a culture of innovation

• Choose the right people for your innovation team

• Overcome apathy: find the fun in any problem

• Overcome negativity: respond to the chorus of “No” and the pain of failure

• Lead productive brainstorms

• Shake up “the way we’ve always done it” 

Team coaching for emerging creative teams—even those that don’t believe they’re “creative.”

Solve the problem now, together:

• Brainstorm toward your next innovation

• Organize an unconventional conference to solve large organizational problems

Or develop foundational tools for the long-term creativity:

• How to find the fun in anything

• Creating and Innovating as a team

• Improv-theater games to unlock creative thinking

Team workshops on design thinking for business innovation.

• Human-Centered Design: innovating through analysis of your target audience—how they feel, think, and behave

• Medium-Centered Design: innovating through analysis of your delivery system and how it works

• Content-Centered Design: innovating through analysis of your mission or message and the design solutions it suggests

• Game-Design Anything: how the fundamental principles of game design can unlock innovation anywhere

• Lightspeed prototyping

• Testing and iterating like a game designer

Improv theater classes for business teams.

Boost creativity:

• Break past routine thinking

• Develop comfort in uncertainty and ambiguity

• Grow adaptability in the face of changing conditions

• Turn failures into insight for innovation

Unite your team:

• Think as a team rather than fighting for airtime

• Overcome habits of critique and dismissal of new ideas

• Amplify listening and presence in meetings and collaborations

• Unite your team with deeper trust and vulnerability

Get off Zoom, get away from the desk, and get on your feet. It’s out in the world and out of our heads that the greatest discoveries are made.

Learn more about the Trespass Leadership Project.