Leadership Programme
Building & Leading a Culture of Innovation
Overview
Innovation is no longer an option for organizations to stay relevant in the future. In the pre-pandemic era, the growing need to stay relevant was forcing companies to innovate and transform themselves. Many enterprises attempted to copy the DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by merely implementing exponential technologies in the name of transformation, without putting people first. Progress was slow and they struggled to improve profitability from these efforts. They failed to realize that to be more innovative, we must be more human. According to research published by HBR magazine in January 2020, just before the pandemic hit us, “culture” was identified as a critical factor than can catalyze or undermine business success.
Since culture is easy to sense but hard to measure and change, we continue modernizing our past and fail to let go of our old ways of doing business. With the increasingly uncertain business environment in the post-pandemic world, humancentric transformation and innovation becomes even more relevant. In addition to enabling business with technology, leaders not only need to drive innovation while being more empathetic, resilient, and agile, but now also have the added responsibility of building purpose-driven organizations with well-being, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion ingrained into their DNA. This highly experiential, ‘hands-on, lean-in’ workshop will help participants gain a first-hand understanding of the processes, mindsets and behaviors necessary to build and foster a culture of innovation and accelerate change by engaging in dynamic, collaborative activities.
Programme details
Important Dates & Time
*Dates and Schedules are subject to change
| Duration | Mode | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| 2 days | In-Campus | Rs. 30,000/- + GST Per Participant |
Dr. Avinash Jhangiani
Dr. Avinash Jhangiani is a visiting faculty in Executive Education at Mahindra University. He is a senior award-winning design-led innovation and digital transformation leader with more than two decades of experience in USA and India with Big 4 US Consulting, large MNC (Chief Information Officer) and global marketing agency (Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer). From the time Jhangiani won Deloitte CEO’s Innovation Quest Award in the US for his idea on Enterprise Sustainability Services in 2006 to leading the digital and mobility team at Omnicom Group’s agency – PHD Media – that took home 4 Gold Lions along with a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions festival of creativity in 2014, he has been at the forefront of driving disruptive innovation for global brands and businesses.
As a founder, CEO and Chief Facilitator of Play2Transform Group, Dr. Jhangiani uses principles of human-centric design and play as a catalyst to accelerate innovation and transformation. These strategic training, workshop, coaching, and consulting services activate new age mindsets while fostering a culture of co-creation, empathy, disruptive creativity and agility for large enterprises across industries, such as Amazon, HP, LinkedIn, Cipla, Coursera, Deutsche Bank, Essar Group, Belden, Tata Communications, InMobi, Dentsu Inc, Samsung, among others. He also serves as a senior Design Thinking and Leadership faculty at Emeritus’ ISB and Wiley’s IIM Lucknow Executive Education Programs, NMIMS, S. P. Jain School of Global Management, among others. Jhangiani obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA, and a doctoral degree in business administration with a specialization in play and design-led innovation from Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva, Switzerland. As a part of a large social impact project called ‘Dream On, India!’, Jhangiani curated India’s first Book of Dreams co-authored by more than 10,000 children, that has been endorsed by ASG, Supreme Court of India and a Nobel Peace Laureate.
Programs Objectives:
- Understand and apply proven, new age leadership strategies to foster a culture of innovation and develop necessary mindsets and behaviors to break silos, build trust and psychological safety for effective cocreation
- Drive innovation with a shared purpose enabled by empathy, vulnerability, futures thinking, disruptive creativity, and agile collaboration within and across teams in the hybrid workplace.
- Utilize proven frameworks and methodologies to build lean startup mindset while applying design thinking coupled with systems thinking for holistic innovation outcomes
- Apply learnings from innovative organizations such as 3M, Pixar, Zappos, Microsoft, Dr. Reddy’s, Apple, P&G, Google, Pepsi, among others for building highly successful innovation teams and spaces
- Understand how to address organizational challenges and the role of leaders in overcoming these barriers to driving human-centric innovation
- Play seriously with experiential toolkits, such as LEGO, playdough, chocolates, spaghetti, and other playful material to rediscover their inner child, think unbiasedly and arrive at meaningful outcomes
Who Should Attend ?
This course is suitable for middle to senior level executives, who habitually need to work with multiple stakeholder groups, internal and external, to achieve their organizations’ objectives.
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