The average age of a company has fallen from almost 60 years old in the 1950s to less than 20 years currently, due to the the disruption from technology. It's just one of the numbers that indicates the importance of your business being constantly moving and developing in order to not be overtaken and made redundant.
To ensure that your business is on the forefront of market and customers, and ahead with product development and services, you need to know what creativity and innovation is and how to use it. And more importantly, your organization needs to know and use it.

The Creativity and Innovative Leadership Program is built for you as a leader to learn tools that enable you to drive creative thinking and innovation into your organization through a proven, science-based and expert-led leadership program.
By combining insights, concrete tools and personalized strategies from neuroscience, agile methodology, digitization, psychology, and change management, the program is designed to help leaders transform their organizations to be more agile and to meet the demands of a digital era.

At the end of the program, you will 

• Be able to enhance creative problem-solving processes in your workplace.
• Use innovative thinking and lead others to be innovative.
• Have improved your understanding, navigation and decision-making capacity in relation to digitalization.
• Be familiar with key tech developments and what possibilities they entail.
• Be able to lead agile project management processes and digital transformation
• Have gained scientific techniques and tools for creative problem solving processes and design thinking methods.​

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• Autumn program 2019
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Program duration: 8 days spread over 3 modules.
Program dates: 
Module 1, Denmark, 2 days: September 2019, dates TBC
Module 2, Kenya, 4 days: October 2019, dates TBC
Module 3, Denmark, 2 days: November 2019, dates TBC
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Price:  € 5,995 / DKK 44,695
Incl. meals and accomodation in Denmark/Sweden
Excl. Flights, Visa and accommodation in Kenya (we will advice) ​

Module 1: Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden
Module 2: Nairobi, Kenya - multiple locations
Module 3: TBA, Denmark

Program Managers: 
Jacob Lennheden, Technology and Creativity Expert. 
Mette Bohnstedt, Learning Design and User Research Expert.
Teit W. Knudsen, Innovation and Agile Methodology Expert. 
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Creativity and Innovative Leadership Program.
8 days program in 3 modules.
Sweden, Denmark & Kenya.

€ 5,995 / DKK 44,695

Keywords

• Leading creativity & innovation
• Human centered design thinking
• Frugal innovation
• Enhanced creative problem solving
• ​Mentoring & leading innovation process

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Program Overview

The program consists of eight days’ intensive training divided into three modules, two in Denmark and one in Kenya.
The structure of the program enables participants to operationalize key learnings between each module - and to share, support and learn from each other's efforts. In module 1, participants receive rigorous creativity, tech and personal optimization training.
In module 2, participants expand their transformation tool box, among other things by acting as external consultants to local tech startups in Kenya.
​In module 3, participants discuss and create concrete action plans for the implementation of a transformation strategy in their work place.

​​LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND METHODOLOGY
The programme combines lectures, workshops, practical hands-on exercises, individual and group work, field work and online learning.
Heavy emphasis is put on creating a “safe” collaborative learning environment conducive to open discussion, conversation and learning from mistakes.
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Both during and in between modules, participants and instructors will make heavy use of online collaborative platforms to better communicate and continue working together in order to progress and achieve results.
This is of particular importance between the modules, where the working groups are expected to reflect on the learning process and seek and share new insights, as well as completing their assigned “homework”.
Furthermore, this is meant as a place to share experiences and create partnerships for development projects beyond the span of the programme.
​During the training, all documents and materials will be made available in one place online for easy access by all participants.

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Why Kenya?

To boost your creativity and innovation skills, challenge your perspective as a leader, give you in-depth knowledge of agile processes and startup mentality, the second module of the program takes place in Nairobi, Kenya. Here you will “learn through teaching” by facilitating the creative design thinking tools from module 1 with local tech startups. Kenya has been named the “cradle” of Africa’s technological revolution - colloquially known as Silicon Savannah - and is a hotbed of frugal innovation (i.e. high-tech low-cost solutions). This makes it a great destination for challenging assumptions and collecting inspiration.

All facilitators have experience from Africa and we have local partnerships to ensure safety. 

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Program Details

Pre-Program Interviews

Each participant has a brief conversation with a program manager to better understand expectations and needs. This enables us to fine-tune the final-program to best meet individual participants where they are.
Venue: Skype / Phone

Module 1

Participants are introduced to the neuroscience of creativity and how this knowledge can be applied to enhance creative problem-solving in the 21s century workplace.
Participants are introduced to agile methodologies and some of the latest technological trends that will come to impact work processes. Participants learn about the science behind optimal personal performance - the physiological and mental underpinnings - and receive individual guidance in goal setting.

Venue: Turning Torsoe, Malmö, Sweden ​
Duration: 2 days program, 9:00-17:00, plus evening program the first night

Applied learning: between module 1 and 2, participants will apply pieces of the methods they have learned so far in their everyday context.

Module 2

Participants use the creativity tools and agile work processes from module one to advise and lead a problem-solving process with a local Kenyan tech startup.
Participants are introduced to frugal innovation and the importance of constraints to the creative process. Participants learn about design thinking methodologies and the importance of human centered design to the success of innovative initiatives. Participants receive individual feedback on their physiological well-being and refine their personal performance goals.

Venue: Nairobi, Kenya - multiple locations (iHub, Nairobi Garage, IBM, Microsoft)
Duration: 4 days program, 9:00-17:00, plus evening programs

Module 3

​Participants deepen their understanding of agile methodologies in a public sector context and create individual action plans for how to transform and optimize their workplace by boosting creativity, digital processes and their individual leadership performance.

Venue: TBA, Denmark ​
Duration: 2 days program, 9:00-17:00, plus evening program the first night

feedback from latest program

"The facilitators’ ability to adjust according to feedback was excellent and this was a very important building block. Made us feel that we were listened to"
- ​Marjo Bruun, Director General, Statistics Finland - talking about the CCDL Program hosted by CINC and Escalino.  ​

Download the executive summary from the CCDL Program hosted by CINC and Escalino.
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 "The program has provided me with knowledge and practical tools to promote innovation in a structural way in my work and my organization"
​- ​Oebele Tolsma, Director of Strategy at Office for the Senior Civil Service, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands - talking about the CCDL Program hosted by CINC and Escalino.  ​

  "One of the best programs I’ve ever participated in, and I’ve been in many" 
- Lasse Skog, Director of Development at the State Treasury of Finland - talking about the CCDL Program hosted by CINC and Escalino.  ​

Contact Jacob Lennheden on jacob@escalino.com to sign up or learn more.