A culture of innovation is built in the moments when people practice new ways of working together. Our culture of innovation programs give teams those moments: hands-on workshops, interactive keynotes, and pre-conference experiences where people experiment, create, and connect around real challenges in their organization.
Dr. Darin Eich designs and leads every program. He has worked with more than 100 organizations, from Silicon Valley companies and Ivy League institutions to regional employers and conferences across the Midwest. Programs are delivered at your site, at a retreat or conference venue, or virtually, and each one is customized to your people and your goals.
“Darin makes you think differently than you ever have before, which is necessary to inspire innovation. I recommend Darin Eich with the highest regard.”
Zach, Founder & CEO, CultureCon (now WorkPossible)
Culture of Innovation Workshops
These full and half day workshops are ready to customize for your organization. Each one combines a proven approach with practice on a challenge your group actually faces.
Harness the Power of Design Thinking: Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Learn a human-centered process, mindset, and toolkit, then use it with colleagues to grow a culture where new ideas are tested and improved.
The 3 Cs of an Innovation Culture
Connect, communicate, and co-create through fast, focused one-on-one conversations in an interactive innovation culture workshop that turns colleagues into collaborators.
Enact Your Innovative Mindset to Grow a Culture of Innovation
Practice the curiosity, openness, and bias toward action that innovators share, and turn an innovative mindset into everyday behavior.
Design Thinking in Your Organization: Organizational Innovation Practices
Identify the practices, rituals, and habits that help innovation spread across departments instead of staying in one team.
Leading and Facilitating Innovation
Leading Innovation: Mindset, Skills, Action, and Renewal
Help leaders model innovation, support experiments, and sustain their own energy for leading change.
How to Innovate Swiftly and Systematically with Teams
Move a team through an innovation process step by step, from framing a challenge to generating ideas and leading innovation in groups.
Train the Trainer: Facilitate Design Thinking for Innovation
Equip internal facilitators to lead design thinking sessions that keep a culture of innovation growing after the workshop ends.
Culture Events, Keynotes, and Gatherings
Pre-Conference and Conference Workshops
Open your event with an experience where attendees connect, work on real challenges, and arrive at the main conference already energized.
Interactive Culture Keynotes
Turn a keynote into a participatory session with an organizational culture keynote that gets the whole room thinking and talking.
Offsites and Retreats
Bring a team together away from daily work with offsite workshops and retreats designed for your place and people.
Case Study: WorkPossible (formerly CultureCon)
WorkPossible (formerly CultureCon) brings together HR leaders, culture officers, and change practitioners who want to build better workplaces. We have designed and led an innovative design thinking experience for the conference since its inaugural event in 2018. Each pre-conference workshop is designed fresh around the people in the room and the culture challenges they bring.
Participants experience the methods instead of hearing about them. Through storytelling, play, reflection, rapid ideation, and prototyping, culture leaders from different organizations explore real challenges and leave with ideas they can take back to work. Read the full pre-conference workshop case study on innovating culture with design thinking.
“The room was ELECTRIC at yesterday’s Pre-Con, which kicked off CultureCon! We experienced design thinking in action, through play, improvisation, and a strong bias toward action. We practiced the mindsets and methods that make innovation real and human-centered. Participants co-created solutions, prototyped ideas, and walked away with actionable options for innovating culture in our workplaces. Thanks to Darin’s masterful leadership and facilitation, we also created real connections in a short time.”
Jennifer, pre-conference participant
The same approach shaped the pre-conference workshop for the conference’s AI Summit, where leaders explored AI adoption as a culture and leadership challenge. Learn more about the WorkPossible AI Summit workshop.
“What makes CultureCon special isn’t just the keynotes or the big stages; it’s the small circles, breakout rooms, and preconference workshops where people lean in and create understanding about what’s happening in their workplaces and imagine something better together.”
Daniel, AI Summit participant
Where to Start
Many organizations begin by taking a quick culture of innovation assessment to see where mindset, leadership, process, and culture are strong and where they need support. From there, we design a workshop, keynote, or event experience around your goals, your group, and the challenges you want to make progress on.