Innovation strategies to ignite organisational potential and drive strong business outcomes - BPTW x Cultivating Leadership Masterclass

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In a world moving faster all the time, the organisations thriving are those that innovate with purpose and agility. So, you’re not alone if you’re feeling the pressure to innovate and bring new products to market swiftly! 

Innovation isn’t just about groundbreaking new technology or new business models. It’s also about enhancing customer service, upgrading existing products, and adapting swiftly to evolving markets. 

The key to unlocking meaningful opportunities and potential? 

Understanding the nuances between innovation, imagination, and creativity. 

Maximise your innovation efforts

Research shows that there are different successful strategies for established companies, startups and disruptors. This transformational one-day masterclass will provide you with effective strategies and tools to: 

• Align innovation with your business strategy.
• Navigate change and complexity with effective leadership models.
• Identify and overcome barriers to innovation within your organisation (aka the immune system). 
• Explore the essential mindsets required to underpin sustainable innovation. 

You’ll leave with:

• Practical frameworks to apply immediately, tailored to your organisational needs
• Insights on collaboration, stakeholder buy-in and resource allocation
• Mindsets for success that drive innovation culture and personal growth
• Hands-on experiments to kick-start innovation within your team
• Networking opportunities with people who share your passion and challenge

What to expect:

Prepare for a day of high-energy learning, interactive sessions, and invaluable connections. We will explore how innovation strategies and mindsets work in real life, discussing both successes and setbacks.

• This will be a varied, interactive, fun (and hopefully mind-blowing) day.
• You’ll leave empowered and ready to implement effective innovation strategies in your workplace.
• A light breakfast, lunch, and tea/coffee will be provided.

Learn from the best!

The day will be facilitated by Melissa Clark-Reynolds, ONZM - certified Futurist and innovation specialist, and Leanne Holdsworth - author of two business books: Human Work, and A New Generation of Business Leaders.

You will also hear real-life innovation experiences - the good, bad and ugly - from some of the 2024 BPTW™ Awards finalists and winners.

Facilitators & Speakers

Melissa Clark-Reynolds Melissa delights in working with organisations that want to make an impact at scale. She loves to work with teams facing uncertain futures in complex times. As a futurist she knows that there “are no future facts” and believes we should design our organisations to thrive under multiple scenarios. As a keen strategist, Melissa likes to help organisations determine their “theory of change” or “theory of how to win” and to design experiments that advance the cause. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Wētā Workshop, Atkins Ranch, Alpine Energy Network, and Daffodil Enterprises Ltd, and has extensive experience as Chair and Director of founder driven, family and community owned enterprises as well as a member of numerous government advisory panels.

Leanne Holdsworth Leanne stands for a future where it is normal for work environments to be places where human beings thrive, enabling organisations to succeed whilst at the same time, building social capital through how those humans are able to show up with their families and communities. She is the co-author of Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising workplaces and author of the book A New Generation of Business Leaders and has spent 15 years advising organisations, predominantly in the private sector (across most sectors including banking, primary sector, FMCG, tech, pharmaceuticals), as well as the public and not for profit sectors in sustainability strategy and leadership. A big move from Auckland to the Northern Hemisphere happens for Leanne and her family in April 2025 where she is taking her passion for people-centric cultures to support clients in other parts of the world.

More to be announced...