Workshop attendance requires advanced registration. Those who register will receive the direct link to the workshop.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022

10:00-10:55am Eastern Time: Innovation Workshop

• “Bright Spots & Blind Spots: Managing Opportunities and Threats While Innovating,” Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

  Innovative is one of the most cherished but ubiquitous descriptors of leaders and their work.  Despite scores of methodologies, tools, and how to guides on how to innovate, innovation remains elusive and challenging for even the most creative, determined and well-resourced individuals and teams. Frequently, the pre-determined plans make concessions for experimentation, but constraints of time, financing, rigid design parameters, or even personalities and preferred options can stymie the real potential of innovation.  In this interactive workshop, we’ll take a candid look at the real life issues, experiences and examples that make innovation a hands-on, all-in endeavour, and how to handle some of the thornier challenges that aren’t normally covered in the playbooks (e.g., personalities and politics, risk aversion, the ever-present vuca dynamics.)  Capitalizing on both opportunities and threats within the dynamism of innovation can be improved through three key activities done well:  i) infusing consciousness by design—improving sensing, ii) effective, real-time contextualizing and analyzing, and iii) choosing and pursuing alternatives.  Join us for a different conversation about innovation than what you may normally have.

11:00-11:55am Eastern Time: Bridging Research and Action Workshop

• “Bridging Research and Action,” Elizabeth Johansen, Founder, Principal Consultant, Spark Health Design

  Use human-centered design to craft a program point of view statement that enables teams to keep the need, stakeholders, and context in mind when designing an innovation. In this workshop, you will join a team focused on medical devices, professional training/education, family healthcare services, or hospital infrastructure. We will take a photographic tour of hospitals throughout Southeast Asia, and each team will develop their own point of view on the proposed challenge.

12:00-12:55pm Eastern Time: Advocacy Workshop

• “NFTs 101 for Global Health and Sustainable Development: How Advocates and Creatives Can Utilize the Space for Improved Advocacy and Fundraising,” Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker and Founder, Create2030

  NFTs have a lot of hype recently, but what exactly are they? And how can they accelerate the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Join Lisa Russell, Emmy-winning filmmaker, UN arts curator and Founder of Create2030 as she introduces her ARTS ENVOY NFT Collection aimed at linking artists and storytellers with the sustainability movement. During the workshop, participants will learn about cryptocurrencies and NFTs, about various NFT collections on the market whose utilities are supporting and funding programs related to gender equality, girls education, climate change, LGBTQI rights, and more. They will also learn about solutions to the environmental concerns minting of NFTs has brought up and will get a step-by-step tutorial on how to open a new cryptowallet and purchase their first NFT.

1:00-1:55pm Eastern Time: Mentorship Workshop

• “Maximizing Mentorship: Opportunities for Professional Development,” Marie Martin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine; Associate Director for Education and Training, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH).

  This workshop serves as an introduction to current best practices in mentorship to empower individuals, foster independence among mentees, and positively influence the mentoring culture of an organization. It is intended to equip participants with a cross-cutting set of competencies focused on career guidance, professional development, and documented principles of effective mentoring. By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand the benefits and obstacles of mentorship, considering mentoring frameworks and functions of mentorship, and identify tools for effective mentorship.

2:00-2:55pm Eastern Time: Nonprofit Leadership Workshop

• “The Art and Science of Nonprofit Leadership,” Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

  In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the six styles of leadership as documented by the Harvard Business Review. Attendees will walk away with a clear understanding of the styles (Coercive, Authoritative, Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting and Coaching) as well as best circumstances to use and not to use each style. Additionally, the workshop will discuss the Four Principles of Nonprofit Leadership (Vision, Constituencies, Individuals and Implementation) and how each distinctly relates to their own jobs, careers, and the sector as a whole.

3:00-3:55pm Eastern Time: Bringing Innovations to Scale Workshop

• “Going from Good to Great: Bringing Innovations to National Scale,” Laura Stachel, Co-Founder and Executive Director, We Care Solar

  How does a nonprofit organization bring innovation to scale? We Care Solar, an NPO working at the nexus of maternal health care and energy access, has delivered thousands of Solar Suitcases to maternal health facilities in Africa and beyond. We Care Solar team leaders will share key questions they addressed during their own scaling journey, and review how the organization evolved from conducting user-centered field testing and ad hoc programming to launching their international Light Every Birth initiative. Participants are invited to bring their own scaling challenges for this interactive session.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022

11:00-11:55am Eastern Time: Transparency Workshop

• “What do we Really Mean by Transparency?” Ned Breslin

  Transparency is a commonly used, but often misunderstood term. This workshop will ask how you use transparency in your organization, what it means, where the lines are on transparency, and some of the challenges you have faced and strategies used to create a more transparent organization.

1:00-1:55pm Eastern Time: Advocacy Workshop

• “Visualizing Information for Advocacy,” Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Houston Downtown; Founder and Director, Design Global Change

  This hands-on workshop offers attendees an introduction to how to influence issues using the right combination of information design, covering storytelling, visual design, and communication strategies to consider when developing campaigns for advocacy. Examples of data visualizations tools for information campaigns will be shared with participants.