Great videos can do real work in a training session. A well-chosen talk sparks discussion before a brainstorming round, reframes how a team thinks about failure, or gives a leadership cohort shared language for the innovation process. This guide collects the best innovation and creativity videos we have curated over the years, organized by how you might actually use them in a workshop, team meeting, or training program. For each video we include what it covers and a practical way to use it with a group. If you want help designing a full session around any of these themes, see our innovation workshops page.
Videos on Where Ideas Come From
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson’s animated talk makes the case that breakthrough ideas rarely arrive as lightning bolts. They develop slowly as “slow hunches” that collide with other people’s hunches. Workshop use: show this before a group ideation session to set the expectation that half-formed ideas are welcome and that building on others’ contributions is the whole point.
From Inspiration to Implementation (Tina Seelig, Stanford)
Stanford’s Tina Seelig walks through her Innovation Engine model, connecting imagination, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship as distinct stages with different requirements. Workshop use: excellent framing for teams who generate lots of ideas but struggle to move any forward.
How to Manage for Collective Creativity (Linda Hill, TED)
Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill studied leaders of exceptionally innovative organizations and found they do not act as visionaries with the answer. They create spaces where collective genius can emerge. Workshop use: strong opener for leadership cohorts learning to facilitate innovation rather than direct it.
You Have to Break the Egg
Cyriac Roeding, co-founder and CEO of mobile app company Shopkick, shares personal stories and insights on dealing with the essential questions facing entrepreneurs. He also provides unique perspectives on the nature of mobile interaction, and offers essential tips for building truly awesome teams.
What is Strategy?
Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University’s School of Business discusses competitive strategy and the role it can play in solving the world’s challenges.
There is Always a Way Forward
Serial entrepreneur Dr. Matthew Rabinowitz discusses how letting go of ego can empower entrepreneurs to solve problems that change the quality of life. As the founder of molecular diagnostics company Natera, Rabinowitz also shares unique financing insights, the value of being irreverent, and ways to manage your entrepreneurial destiny for as long possible.
The Path to More Inclusive Innovation
Astia CEO Sharon Vosmek shows how behavior shifts in entrepreneurial ecosystems can lead to more robust levels of inclusive innovation. Vosmek also highlights research on how access to business networks, expertise and capital play out across gender lines.
The Music Industry Unplugged
Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses the creative process and music industry dynamics with Nate Ruess, lead singer of the band fun., and Cameron Strang, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and Warner/Chappell Music. As a kick-off to Seelig’s Stanford Online course, Creativity: Music to my Ears, the conversation explores issues of artist development, evolving business models and the shape and future of the music industry.
The 3 A’s Of Awesome
Neil Pasricha’s blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life’s simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that’s truly awesome. (Filmed at TEDxToronto.)
Neil Pasricha uses the power of blogging to spread a little optimism each day about the awesome things that make life worth living.
The $170 Million Idea
Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com, shares his experiences starting with a simple idea and ending in a $170 million acquisition deal of his company with Intuit Inc.
Aaron is both the visionary and technical mind behind Mint.com, now the leading free, online money management in the US. He designed Mint.com to meet the needs of people who value the immediacy of the web, simplicity and their free time. Prior to founding Mint, Aaron was an architect and technical lead for the San Jose division of Nascentric. Before Nascentric, Aaron worked for IBM and founded two web development and online marketing companies: PWeb and International. Aaron holds an MSEE from Princeton University and a BS in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering from Duke University. He has 10 patents filed or pending.
This talk was sponsored by Princeton University’s Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education.
A Visual History of Human Knowledge by Manuel Lima
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data — from languages to dynasties — using trees of information. It’s a fascinating history of visualizations, and a look into humanity’s urge to map what we know.
Paper Towns and Why Learning is Awesome
Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us … well, we don’t. But we still love to learn, to find out new things about the world and challenge our minds. We just need to find the right place to do it, and the right community to learn with. In this charming talk, author John Green shares the world of learning he found in online video.
Disrupting the Discourse
Speaker: John H. Jackson, Ed.M.’98, Ed.D.’01, president and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
John H. Jackson will present the opening keynote for The 10th Annual Alumni of Color Conference (AOCC). The AOCC seeks to inspire and impact the improvement of the education sector by annually convening Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni, students, and friends concerned with issues of race, class and education as they pertain to all people, and in particular to communities of color. This year’s conference theme is Disrupting the Discourse: Discussing the ‘Undiscussable’.
Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?
On September 7, 2012 the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School filmed “Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?” The event brought together individuals with a breadth of experiences and viewpoints to explore questions around the promise and risks of innovation in financial services and the potential of financial innovations to advance the public good and goals. This project was completed in conjunction with the Fred Friendly Seminars.
The speakers included David Abrams, Caroline Baum, Ed Conard, Wilson Ervin, Representative Barney Frank, Gary Gensler, Linda Gibbs, Robert Solow, Alicia Glen, Bruce Greenwald, Blythe Masters, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Peter Stringham
Moderated by Professor Robert Jackson of Columbia Law School.
This discussion is part of the Individual, Business, and Society curriculum that uses a series of discussions to foster a community dialogue on tradeoffs, choices, and accountability related to values-based leadership, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.
Investor, Risk-taker, Innovator
Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it. In an energetic talk, she shows how the state — which many see as a slow, hunkering behemoth — is really one of our most exciting risk-takers and market-shapers.
Getting Behind the Perfect Pitch
“Pitch often replaces a business plan in today’s VC world. Learn how to put together the perfect pitch that gets your venture the attention and the funding it deserves. Find out what really matters to investors and use those insights to gain unfair competitive advantage.”
Building Capacity For A Pluralistic Society
This presentation was given by Daryl Smith, professor of education and psychology at The Claremont Graduate University, on Friday, March 27, 2009, at 1:30 in the Assembly Room of the Nittany Lion Inn.
Big Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs
Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder & Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discusses his philosophy on investing in technical founders and the role of technology in today’s startups. Andreessen also addresses the kind of entrepreneurs and ideas his venture capital firm look for: “Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.”
Building Social Business
The IMPACT Speaker Series, presented by the College of Management and the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship from Thursday, August 26:
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank were awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in equal parts for their efforts to create economic and social development from below through a microcredit delivery system to provide banking services for the rural poor.
Dr. Yunus’ vision is the total eradication of poverty from the world.
The Grameen Bank, which began as a research project by Dr. Yunus in 1976 to explore a credit delivery service system for the rural poor, has reversed conventional banking wisdom by focusing on women borrowers, dispensing of the requirement of collateral and extending loans only to the very poorest borrowers.
Today, more than 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate micro-credit programs based on the Grameen Bank model.
Videos on Creative Problem Solving
Got a Wicked Problem? First, Tell Me How You Make Toast (Tom Wujec, TED)
Tom Wujec’s short talk introduces a deceptively simple exercise: ask people to draw how to make toast, then use the drawings to reveal how groups model complex problems. Workshop use: this one doubles as an activity. Run the toast exercise live after showing the talk, then apply the same drawing method to your team’s real challenge.
Smart Failure for a Fast-Changing World (Eddie Obeng, TED)
Eddie Obeng argues the world changed faster than our working assumptions did, and that organizations need to distinguish smart failure from incompetence. Workshop use: pairs well with a retrospective or an experimentation planning session where teams define what a good failed experiment looks like.
Disruptive Innovation Explained
A concise explanation of disruptive innovation theory: why successful companies get overtaken by simpler, cheaper entrants serving overlooked customers. Workshop use: assign as pre-work before a strategy or threat-mapping session so the group shares vocabulary.
Marketing to the Global Economy
Antonio Lucio, chief marketing officer at Visa, explains his views on how to market for a company with true worldwide reach as part of the course Strategic Marketing Leadership: The Role of the CMO, co-taught by Ravi Dhar and Arun Sinha.
A Taste of Innovation: From Farm to Table
A conversation on innovation in the agricultural value chain. Moderated by Mark Bomford of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, this panel of entrepreneurs and authors will explore some of the ways that we can redesign our current food systems and how to develop the regenerative food systems of tomorrow.
Toward an Open-Solution Society
On February 11, 2014, the Duke community came together to celebrate the life and work of Professor J. Gregory Dees, founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) and the “father of social entrepreneurship education.”
The event included a welcome and introduction from CASE Executive Director, Erin Worsham; a touching video tribute from Fuqua alumni whose paths Greg helped to shape; reflections from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation and David Bornstein, journalist, author and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network; and a discussion of Greg’s work by Cathy Clark, Director, CASE i3; Tom Tierney, Chairman and Co-Founder, The Bridgespan Group; and, David Bornstein.
Thirsting for a Life of Service
Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of charity: water, shares his entrepreneurial path from a life of pure self-interest to one driven by a desire to bring clean water to millions. In this compelling talk, Harrison shares his interest and approach in re-inventing the charity sector, along with the powerful stories of those affected by his organization’s work.
Negotiation – Getting What You Want
Negotiation is problem solving. The goal is not to get a deal; the goal is to get a good deal. Four steps to achieving a successful negotiation: Assess, Prepare, Ask, Package. Women increase the chance of a success when a proposal is framed in terms of benefits to your counterparts, team, or organization. Three questions to prepare women to enter a negotiation: Why are you asking? How are you asking? For whom are you asking?
Margaret Neale’s research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. Her work has extended judgment and decision-making research from cognitive psychology to the field of negotiation. Neale was the Graduate School of Business John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution from 2000-2012. Trust Faculty Fellow in 2011-2012 and in 2000-2001. Neale received her BS in Pharmacy from Northeast Louisiana University, her MS from the Medical College of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University and her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Texas.
Moonshot Thinking
Moonshot thinking is a type of creative problem-solving approach that involves setting ambitious, seemingly impossible goals and working to achieve them. The term “moonshot” refers to the United States’ Apollo 11 mission, which sent the first humans to the moon in 1969. This mission was considered a “moonshot” because it was an ambitious, high-risk project that required significant resources and effort, and seemed unlikely to succeed when it was first proposed.
Moonshot thinking involves setting bold, audacious goals that require significant innovation and creativity to achieve. It is based on the idea that by setting these types of goals, organizations can drive progress and create significant impact. Moonshot thinking often involves taking a risk-tolerant approach, and embracing uncertainty and failure as a part of the learning and innovation process.
Moonshot thinking is often used in a variety of contexts, including business, technology, and social impact. It is often used in conjunction with other problem-solving approaches, such as design thinking and lean startup, to help organizations develop innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Videos on Prototyping and Testing Ideas
Pretotyping: Build the Right It (Alberto Savoia, Stanford)
Alberto Savoia’s pretotyping approach tests whether an idea is worth building before you build it, using experiments even lighter than prototypes. Workshop use: show this at the action stage of a design thinking process, then have each team design a pretotype they could run within a week. This connects directly to the prototyping work in our design thinking workshops.
Creativity, Inc. (Ed Catmull, Stanford)
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull shares how the studio protects new ideas (“ugly babies”) from being judged too early, and how candor mechanisms like the Braintrust keep quality high without killing creativity. Workshop use: great for teams designing their own feedback rituals.
What If 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?
What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over … slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that’s 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?
Power & Influence
When people want to make an impression, most think a lot about what they want to say. Stanford Business Professor Deborah Gruenfeld cautions you to think twice about that approach. The factors influencing how people see you are surprising: Words account for 7% of what they take away, while body language counts for 55%. There is a body language of power. Gruenfeld introduces the body languages of authority and being approachable. Becoming fluent in matching body language to each situation can be a source of power and influence. Gruenfeld also shares leading social science research on the ways in which body language affects your psychology, in addition to influencing how others perceive you.
Impact Innovations – Doing Good for Society, Environment, and Business
Kevin Trapani, President and CEO of The Redwoods Group and CASE Advisory Board Member, Maria Kingery, Co-Founder and CEO of Southern Energy Management, and Paul Sansone, Daytime MBA ’92 and CFO of Better World Books speak at the closing keynote conversation of the Duke Conference on Sustainable Business and Social Impact SBSI 2014. The topic was: “Impact Innovations: Doing Good for Society, Environment, and Business”. Recorded on February 12, 2014.
Innovate Like IDEO: Meet the Dynasts of Design
They designed the first Apple mouse and created one of the first educational iPad apps. They developed a heart defibrillator that gives voice and visual instructions on how to use it. They’re helping improve access to safe drinking water in the developing world. And now they’ve written the book “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All.”
At this Milken Institute Forum, David and Tom Kelley – brothers who are the driving force behind the storied design firm IDEO – will discuss their book, their human-centered approach to design and the genesis of some of their favorite projects.
In “Creative Confidence,” these innovators argue that there’s no such thing as haves and have-nots when it comes to creativity. Often squelched in childhood, creativity can be coaxed from adults if approached the right way. “Creativity is something you practice, not just a talent you’re born with,” the authors say. “The process may feel a little uncomfortable at first, but … the discomfort quickly fades away and is replaced with new confidence and capabilities.”
India’s Hidden Hotbeds of Invention
Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world’s unsung inventors — indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many people’s lives. He shows how the Honey Bee Network helps them build the connections they need — and gain the recognition they deserve.
Anil Gupta created the Honey Bee Network to support grassroots innovators who are rich in knowledge, but not in resources.
How Innovative Non-Profits Go Beyond The Dollar
A growing number of Chicago Booth students and alumni are founding and managing innovative social enterprises — both for-profit and non-profit. In this session, alumni and current student social entrepreneurs discuss their ventures and the challenges and opportunities they face in the evolving environment for social sector institutions.
How Do Economies, And Individuals, Thrive?
How do economies, and individuals, thrive? It’s largely a matter of values and motivations, in the view of Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps. At this private Milken Institute event, presented in partnership with RAND Corporation, the renowned economist will offer a sweeping argument about what makes nations prosper and why those sources of affluence are in jeopardy. That argument fills the pages of Phelps’ new book, “Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change.”
Phelps credits the Western world’s prosperity to what he terms “modern” values, such as the desire to create, explore and meet challenges. That explosion of innovation and productivity gave rise to not only unprecedented wealth, but “flourishing”–meaningful work, self-expression and personal growth. Yet the West’s vigor is waning, threatened, he believes, by the return of values that stifle individual aspirations. Phelps asks whether industrialized nations will recommit themselves to modernity, grassroots dynamism and widespread personal fulfillment, or will only a few in those societies flourish.
Five Trends Reshaping the Global Economy
Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company, highlights the five trends he sees reshaping the global economy:
1. The Great Rebalancing
2. The Productivity Imperative
3. The Global Grid
4. Pricing the Planet
5. and the Market State
He concludes his presentation with a discussion about the implications of being a leader in the face of these ongoing changes.
Barton appeared as part of the Center for Global Business and the Economy’s Global Speaker Series at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Big Oil Is Ripe For Innovation
Marvin Odum, President of Shell Oil, speaks to Stanford Graduate School of Business students about the global implications of America’s changing energy markets and why the old, big oil industry is ripe for innovation. Odum addresses innovative, industry-leading solutions to the challenge of securing safe, secure and sustainable energy sources.
Odum also discusses the importance of maintaining your current business while driving innovation and strategic change to create a long-term sustainable company.
Energy for Tomorrow – Accelerating Energy Innovation
In the wake of unprecedented growth in global demand and ever-pressing environmental issues, industry experts agree that the energy sector is at a crossroads. This challenge inspired the Energy for Tomorrow program, where top business school students from around the world were asked to submit their ideas for a sustainable energy future.
Now we turn our attention to distinguished business leaders. Moderated by TIME and Fortune editor Michael Elliott, this important panel will discuss what can and must be done to accelerate innovation.
Realizing Innovation at Enterprise Scale
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology and strategy officer, offers a vision of how value will be created as the magnitude of technology change rapidly increases. Warrior also touches on balancing analytical and empathetic leadership, cultivating a culture of innovation at enterprise scale, and how the Internet of Everything will shape the future of individuals and organizations.
The Future Of Distributed Energy Finance
In a post cash grant, post tax credit world, what will the U.S. energy portfolio look like and how will financing evolve to make distributed energy viable and profitable?
Join Travis Bradford, President and Founder of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, for his captivating lecture on the future of distributed energy finance at Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business.
… not to be missed by anyone interested in venture capital, entrepreneurship, private equity, and project finance.
Videos on AI, Technology, and Creativity
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Ethan Mollick)
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, author of Co-Intelligence, makes the practical case for treating AI as a creative teammate: always invite it to the table, stay the human in the loop, and expect a jagged frontier where it excels at some creative tasks and stumbles on others. Workshop use: show before an AI-augmented ideation round. Have teams brainstorm without AI first, then with it, and compare the idea sets. The difference becomes the discussion. This is the approach we take in our own AI innovation workshops.
How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory (Refik Anadol, TED)
Media artist Refik Anadol, whose generative AI installation hung in MoMA’s lobby, shows what human-machine collaboration looks like at the highest creative level: data as paintbrush, AI as instrument, human intent as the art. Workshop use: a stunning visual opener for sessions on AI and creativity. Ask participants: in Anadol’s work, what does the human contribute that the machine cannot? Their answers map directly onto how their own teams should divide work with AI.
The Power of Big Data in a Networked World
At the BRITE ’13 conference, David Rogers, Executive Director of BRITE, speaks to the power of “big data” generated by a world of social networks, mobile computing, and billions of smart sensors. Big data poses new challenges, and demands new kinds of leadership from CEOs and marketers alike. But for the businesses that can integrate human creativity with the power of algorithms, big data will spur incredible innovations and provide the answers to some of marketing’s most vexing questions
The BRITE conference on brands, innovation and technology is hosted by the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School.
Sustainable Energy, Internet and Making Life Multi-planetary
At the 36th annual ENCORE Award event on October 2, 2013, Stanford Graduate School of Business honored Tesla Motor CEO and Product Architect, Elon Musk.
Shaping the Future of Data
Ayasdi Co-Founders Gunnar Carlsson and Gurjeet Singh discuss building a company based on technology developed inside a university, in conversation with Floodgate Partner Ann Miura-Ko. With deep insights on data visualization, Carlsson and Singh talk about developing technologies and the process for evaluating high-impact applications.
Singularity University
Despite the staggering economy, researchers agree that technology advances will only accelerate. This is known as theory of singularity, which states that artificial intelligence will soon surpass human intelligence. Sound scary? Don’t worry, Ray Kurzweil has found a way to deal with this inevitability called Singularity University.
Singularity University is Kurzweil’s vision that will allow mankind to cope with the inevitable changes in technology. Leaders in technology, with the help of NASA, are in the midst of collaborating and developing a plan to work alongside the constantly growing world of technology that will benefit mankind and the environment.
Opportunities Abound in the Big Data Space
Cloudera Co-Founder Mike Olson shares his insights on the present landscape and possible future of big data and the data management industry. In conversation with Ping Li of Accel Partners, Olson also discusses the advantages of building a business on top of open source technologies and the many surprising benefits of competition.
Innovating Media Models for a Mobile Consumer
At the BRITE ’13 Conference Liz Schimel (Chief Digital Officer, Meredith National Media Group) talks with Ava Seave (Principal, Quantum Media Group) about the challenges faced by consumers that are always “on the go.” What does that mean for the brands that want to reach them? Is it about the screen? The timing? The offer/message? Or a specific combination of all three? Schimel shares her insights on how Meredith’s brands – including Better Homes and Gardens, and Allrecipes.com – are shifting the mobile engagement and conversation with consumers and marketers.
The BRITE conference on brands, innovation and technology is hosted by the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School.
Ideas & Technology Can Change the World
Jack Ma, the founder of China’s most profitable e-commerce company Alibaba Group, made his last public speech at Stanford University on May 4th, 2013 before stepping down as CEO. In his talk, Ma discussed why embracing change is critical for global leaders managing the fast turnover of technology.
The event was co-hosted by Alibaba Group and the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)
Body Parts on a Chip
It’s relatively easy to imagine a new medicine, a better cure for some disease. The hard part, though, is testing it, and that can delay promising new cures for years. In this well-explained talk, Geraldine Hamilton shows how her lab creates organs and body parts on a chip, simple structures with all the pieces essential to testing new medications — even custom cures for one specific person. (Filmed at TEDxBoston)
Deep Inside Facebook
Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein takes us on a trip inside the innovative culture of Facebook. In this illuminating conversation with STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig, Goldfein explains why code wins arguments, employees must have the right to take risks, and how Facebook strives to remain a hungry, yet humble, company.
Videos on Building an Innovation Culture
Scaling Up Excellence (Stanford)
Based on the research behind the book Scaling Up Excellence by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, this talk covers how pockets of great practice spread, or fail to spread, across an organization. Workshop use: fits change management and transformation programs where the challenge is spreading what already works.
How equal do we want the world to be? You’d be surprised
The news of society’s growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies … then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.
How to Build with Clay… and Community
Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture… He wanted to go home to Gando in Burkina Faso, to help his neighbors reap the benefit of his education. In this charming talk, Kéré shows off some of the beautiful structures he’s helped to build in his small village in the years since then, including an award-winning primary school made from clay by the entire community.
Creating a Culture of Rapid Experimentation
At the BRITE ’13 conference, Kaaren Hanson, Vice President of Design Innovation, Intuit, talks about how to build successful innovative campaigns in your company by empowering employees at all levels to run fast, cheap experiments, and challenging them to bring that learning and data into the discussion, allowing the best ideas to win out.
The BRITE conference on brands, innovation and technology is hosted by the Center on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School.
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Creating a culture of innovation is very important to many organizations seeking to innovate. They want to not only develop new product, service, or marketing ideas, but also innovative continuously. This requires a “culture of innovation.” Karl Ulrich, Wharton Professor of Operations and Information Management and Director of the Wharton Innovation Group, talks to alumni about creating a culture of innovation during the Seattle stop of the Knowledge for Action Lifelong Learning Tour.
Advancing Women – Challenges and Solutions
Our panelists bring deeply informed viewpoints on the goal we all share of advancing women’s leadership in business and government. Their work ranges from ‘boots on the ground’ actions for advancing women’s leadership in particular organizations, to capacity building of future women leaders, to building powerful women’s networks, to state-of-the-art research on the challenges women face and the solutions organizations have found most useful. Together we will learn about advancing women’s leadership and the actions that ensure organizations have the benefit of women’s aspirations, talents, and abilities.
A World of Changemakers
Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton shares new ideas on how the world can transition to a place where everyone is a contributing change-maker. Drayton also sits down in conversation with Stanford Professor Tina Seelig to discuss critical skills for changemakers, the possibilities for collaborative entrepreneurship, and the importance of giving yourself permission to make change.
Videos on Education Innovation
What we’re Learning from Online Education
Excellent information on the future of higher education and Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). From TED: “Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed. With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.”
What the World Can Learn from Educational Change in Finland
What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? Pasi Sahlberg, director general of the Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, discussed Finland’s approach to education at the Askwith Forum on Tuesday, April 23.
Transformative Change in America’s Schools
On October 23, 2013, Michele Cahill headlined an Askwith Forum entitled “Transformative Change in America’s Schools” in Longfellow Hall at HGSE.
Reinventing Education
HGSE Dean James Ryan introduces Anant Agarwal, the President of edX.
Let’s Use Video To Reinvent Education
Education Innovator Salman Khan speaks about Khan Academy and the future of education. From TED: Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world each day.
Educational Innovations for the Future
Joel Klein, chief executive officer of Amplify and former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, discusses innovation in education at the Askwith Forum on Monday, October 1.
Innovations in Teaching
Part of HGSE’s Teaching and Learning Week, on October 8th, 2013, an Askwith Forum on Innovations in Teaching was held in Longellow Hall. HGSE Dean James Ryan hosted and moderated the speakers, Robert Kegan and Meira Levinson.
The Millennial Youth Opportunity: Uncapping Next-Level Global Prosperity
CEO Muhtar Kent discusses Coca-Cola’s perspective on how businesses can capture the opportunities of our generation, as well as Coca-Cola’s sustainability and women’s economic empowerment initiatives.
The Human Knowledge Project
Siva discusses dangers in Google book project as a flawed model for a global knowledge library. This was the SILS 2007-08 Henderson Lecture.
Leading Voices in Higher Education
Undergraduate Education for the New Millenium: Starting From Scratch— President of Quest University Canada David Helfand discussed modern problems with higher education and potential solutions on October 1, 2012 in the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth. The founders of Quest University departed from traditional educational models to design a campus and curriculum equipped for the twenty-first century. Quest has no departments, no tenure, and no classes larger than 20. President Helfand’s lecture was part of Leading Voices in Higher Education, a speaker series that is part of strategic planning at Dartmouth.
Innovation in Education: MOOCs, Scalability, and Pedagogy
Andrew Ng speaks about Coursera and its mission to bring education to everyone. Ng shared his views on how MOOCs can optimize and personalize education experiences at a seminar co-hosted by the Stanford Chinese Faculty and Family Club and the China 2.0 initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also discussed the opportunities opened up by the collection of massive amounts of data from MOOCs. Andrew Ng is a cofounder of Coursera and the director of the Stanford AI Lab.
Videos on Healthcare Innovation
Revitalizing Healthcare Innovation
Innovate to improve care patient outcomes, our healthcare systems, and medical devices and products with our healthcare innovation training resources. Below is a video on revitalizing healthcare.
The long-overdue application of information technology to healthcare is enabling unprecedented innovation in the field. This discussion, led by Tom McKinley, Partner at Carindal Partners, explored how entrepreneurs are approaching health innovation in the digital age and how they’re using technology to disrupt the status quo. The panelists included Hamid Tabatabaie, CEO and President of lifeIMAGE; David Van Sickle, co-founder and CEO of Asthmapolis; and Chini Krishnan, founder and CEO of Getinsured.com.This session took place at the 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit sponsored by the Stanford GSB’s Program in Healthcare Innovation.
Rethinking Healthcare Delivery – Choosing New Technologies
In recent years, a plethora of new technologies have been released that can enable new models for delivering health care–and more are on the way. This discussion explored how two major providers screen, choose, adopt, and integrate new technologies into their standards of care, taking into account the larger context of their organizations.
The session featured Yan Chow, Director of Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation and Advanced Technology Group, and Molly Coye, Chief Innovation Officer of the UCLA Health System. It was moderated by Arnold Milstein, Director of Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center, and Stefanos Zenios of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
This session took place at the 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit sponsored by the Stanford GSB’s Program in Healthcare Innovation.
Accelerating Real Change in Healthcare
Halle Tecco, co-founder and CEO of healthcare accelerator Rock Health, shares how technologists, designers and other professionals can play a role in bringing innovation to the healthcare industry. Tecco identifies systemic challenges facing healthcare in America and shares examples of companies working to address these opportunities for change.
How to Use Videos in a Workshop
A few guidelines from our experience facilitating hundreds of sessions:
- Keep clips short. Five to ten minutes of video is plenty inside a live session. For longer talks, assign them as pre-work and use session time for discussion and application.
- Always pair a video with an activity. The talk provides shared context. The learning happens when participants apply the idea to their own challenge, ideally on sticky notes or a whiteboard within minutes of watching.
- Ask one focusing question before pressing play. For example: “As you watch, note one thing this speaker does that our team does not.” A question turns passive viewing into active hunting.
- Close the loop. End with each participant writing one action they will take, a move we build into every session we design.
Videos are a starting point. The organizations that build real innovation capability go further by practicing these methods with a skilled facilitator, on their own real challenges. That is exactly what we design in our creativity and innovation training programs and our expert brainstorming workshop series. If you would like help bringing these ideas to your team, contact us to talk through what a custom session could look like.