Location
Downtown Campus, Gleacher Center, Chicago IL
Drive Organizational Innovation
Learn to think like an "intrapreneur," blending entrepreneurial agility with the strength of organizational resources to drive innovation and impact.
Frequency
To be Confirmed
Cost
To be Confirmed
Admissions
To be Confirmed
Coming Soon: Master the art of driving "intrapreneurial" innovation to create value and growth within your organization.
This program equips participants with strategies to navigate disruption, reduce reliance on high-cost, high-risk initiatives, and empower leaders as catalysts for innovation. You'll develop a tailored roadmap to solve your organization’s innovation challenges, harnessing uncertainty as a driver of growth while boosting team morale and activation.
Shifting business climates, changing customer demands, and ongoing market disruptions mean that adapting to change is no longer sufficient—the future belongs to those who can proactively drive change from within. To achieve this, organizations need leaders who think like "intrapreneurs," combining entrepreneurial agility with the power of organizational resources.
This program, rooted in the Booth Approach, equips leaders with the intrepreneur's code for breakthrough innovation. You'll learn how to foster innovation by promoting experimentation and risk-taking, simplifying complex challenges into actionable, measurable plans, and creating a roadmap for initiatives that align with best practices. What's more, you'll learn how to transform your organizational constraints into a powerful competitive advantage for innovation.
You'll emerge with the capabilities to empower teams in championing innovation and solving real-world business problems.
By attending, you'll...
- Embed intrapreneurship into your organization’s strategy and culture, promoting experimentation, risk-taking, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Simplify complex challenges by designing actionable plans that deliver measurable results and meaningful progress.
- Identify and nurture internal talent to champion and lead intrapreneurial initiatives.
- Develop a personalized roadmap to scale intrapreneurial efforts aligned with proven best practices.
- Reduce risks and barriers while building a resilient, adaptable workforce.
- Leverage constraints and small-scale testing to create cost-effective, resourceful solutions.
- Streamline processes to maintain focus, avoid overwhelm, and ensure measurable outcomes.
This program offers a dynamic blend of learning methods to ensure relevance and immediate applicability:
- Interactive Discussions: Explore key concepts and share insights with peers.
- Hands-On Activities: Engage in exercises tailored to real-world challenges.
- Group Simulations: Practice intrapreneurship in collaborative, simulated environments.
- Real-World Case Studies: Analyze successful innovation strategies and their outcomes.
Key benefits include:
- Individualized Roadmap Development: Create a structured plan to guide internal innovation initiatives and foster a mindset shift across teams.
- Project-Based Activities: Develop an actionable plan to accelerate business results and improve innovation performance, even with limited resources.
- Clear Framework for Leadership: Learn to lead intrapreneurial efforts effectively, with strategies that drive measurable impact.
By the end of the program, participants will:
- Be equipped with practical tools and actionable strategies.
- Have a clear plan to implement intrapreneurial initiatives in their organizations immediately.
This program is designed for mid- to senior-level executives responsible for driving growth, creating value, and navigating transformation within their organizations. It is particularly suited to those operating in dynamic industries or sectors facing disruption and change.
Executives across industries and geographies will gain globally relevant insights and practical tools to lead with agility and achieve sustainable results.
Ideal participants include: Directors, Vice Presidents, C-suite Executives, and senior leaders with titles such as Innovation Leader, Change Manager, Senior Project Manager, Operations Manager, Product Manager, Marketing Director, Business Development Manager, Strategy Lead, Human Resources Leader, Finance Manager, or Technology Manager
Innovation Challenge: Unlocking the Intrapreneurship Advantage
At the outset of the program, participants will identify a key intrapreneurial challenge within their organization—such as launching a new initiative, driving innovation under constraints, or fostering a team culture of adaptability and creativity. With guidance from expert faculty and collaboration with program peers, participants will refine their approach using actionable feedback and program insights. By the end of the course, each participant will develop a tailored, intrapreneurship-focused plan to tackle their challenge and deliver measurable impact, empowering them to drive transformation from within.
MONDAY AFTERNOON
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Introduce your individual projects
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The Intrapreneurial Mindset
Learn how to incorporate an intrapreneurial approach for success: break through barriers and align with your organizational strategy.
TUESDAY
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Aligning Innovation with Corporate Strategy
Evaluate your projects against organizational strategic priorities. You will craft concise, high-impact presentations to gain executive sponsorship, emphasizing alignment with broader strategic goals.
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Identifying & Nurturing Internal Talent
Assess your teams to identify intrapreneurs capable of driving your projects forward, and set them up for success.
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Leveraging Constraints to Drive Creativity
Identify constraints (e.g., budget, time, regulatory) within your projects and learn how to turn these limitations into creative opportunities.
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Risk Reduction and Assumption Testing
Reduce your projects' risk: Identify key assumptions within your projects and outline a plan to validate them using small-scale experiments and real-time feedback.
WEDNESDAY
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Building Organizational Buy-In and Overcoming Resistance
Create stakeholder engagement plans that use tailored communication strategies to secure buy-in, address resistance, and demonstrate the value of entrepreneurial innovation.
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Innovation Metrics and Measuring Impact
Refine your projects' success metrics and develop measurement plans to effectively track and demonstrate impact. Develop a plan to incentivize employee intrapreneurship.
THURSDAY
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Implementing and Scaling Intrapreneurial Initiatives
Develop an implementation and scaling plan, detailing how to expand successful small-scale experiments across the organization. Create a timeline and define scaling milestones.
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Intrapreneurial Storytelling: Communicating Your Innovation Idea
Craft a compelling communication strategy for your projects and gain buy-in for market launch. Incorporate practical techniques to secure funding, resources, or validation.
FRIDAY
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Creating a Sustainable Intrapreneurial Culture
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Finalize your projects and develop long-term plans to sustain intrapreneurial efforts within your organization, fostering an enduring culture of innovation.
Sustaining Success: Post-Program Progress and Impact Session
A few weeks after the program concludes, participants will reconvene in a live-online session to report on their progress, share updates on business challenges, and receive actionable feedback from peers and faculty. This follow-up session reinforces accountability, strengthens professional networks, and ensures lasting impact, translating program insights into measurable business outcomes
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