Regenerative Innovation in Complex Systems

Certificate Program: Regenerative Innovation and Complex Systems

Entrepreneurship and innovation, long celebrated as the defining trends of recent times, actively create new solutions to problems, drive systemic change, and break the mold. For over a decade, these concepts have dominated various fields, industries, and life in general, embodying the spirit of the era. The advent of the virus and subsequent political, economic and climate crises have only underscored the truth of the adage, "the only constant is change," by dramatically transforming our reality.

In partnership with NYU i3: The Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship we are excited to be able to offer a certificate in Innovation and Complexity.

June 5, 6, 7, 2024

Certificate Program: Regenerative Innovation in Complexity Systems

When it comes to leading social change, the complexity is undeniable. The systems, structures, and policies governing our civic and social lives often struggle to address the diverse challenges we face. To reimagine public and social services, and to strategize our future's investment, we need approaches that are not only creative and inclusive, but also capable of handling complexity. Change-makers in government, human, and social services need the agility to connect, learn, and innovate to address our most pressing human and social issues effectively.

Learning Goals

  • To expose participants to key concepts and practices in entrepreneurship and innovation

  • To provide them with related practical development and management tools 

  • To introduce them to key concepts and approaches for better working with complexity.

  • To build skill in designing relational approaches to innovating in public and social service settings.

  • To encourage them to think as changemakers

  • To help facilitate a dialogue between communities

Modules

  • Adaptive Innovation in Times of Disruption

  • Harnessing Complexity: Working with Emergence & Matching Method to Purpose

  • The Art of Experimentation

  • Moving from Reactive to Creative to Build Deliberately Developmental Teams

  • Intrapreneurship in Action

  • Social Chemistry and Instinctual Bias: Catalyzing Your Social Network

  • Innovating for Systems Change: A Partnership Case Study

  • Working with Other Ways of Knowing

  • Innovation and Complexity in Government & Public Service

  • Projects Presentations & Discussion <online>

Certificate Instructors & Guests

  • Dr. Nir Tsuk

    Innovation Expert

  • Dr. Jeff St. John

    Innovation & Complexity

  • Kim Ruse, MSW

    Scaling Innovation

  • Talia Bell, MA

    Innovation and Strategy

  • Sharon Blackwell

    Innovation and Government

  • David Turner

    Innovation and Indigenous Communities

FAQs

  • 20 Academic Hours over three days and one follow up online session.

  • The in-person sessions will be held in Calgary.

  • Participants will receive an NYU Executive Education Certificate

  • 4995 for the course including meals.