Pass on Perfection

When you have struggled to define a minimally viable result then you need a way to not only brainstorm ideas, but also a way to cut the unnecessary waste out. Pass on Perfection is an exercise for discovering and co-creating a solutions or products with what is minimally necessary. It mashes up Yes and… thinking for co-creation, and the essence of The Perfection Game (from the Core Protocols) for negotiation and prioritization in a collaborative round-robin game format. This workshop will provide the opportunity to try out the exercise and give you the opportunity to co-create something you or another participant desires. We’ll share our perfection results and discuss our learnings; including how psychological safety is created in its use. This is a no decks learning experience.

Learning Outcomes
Contribute without being emotionally held to ideas
Co-create solutions that give everyone a voice
Co-own removing waste in solutions
Build trust with positive collaboration

Session History
Session has presented at Agile Games 2018, Path of Agility 2018, and local meetups in Detroit & DC and upcoming CRAFT 2019 in Budapest

My co-speaker is Paul Boos

Design Thinking Powered by Improvisation for Product Development

The power of design thinking with improvisation is explored in this fast paced and laughter filled experience. This is a learning experience that could enhance how you ideate, collaborate, create, learn, design, and innovate. We will leverage problems you would like to solve whether routine or wacky.

Session History
Session has presented at Agile DC, GLASScon, and coming to Agile2018

Investigating Your Purpose

Discover your purpose. Be prepared for a mind and heart expanding journey into what matters most to you, and how you can immediately begin walking in your purpose.

You’ll come away with . . .
a deeper understanding of what matters to you.
discernment of what you can control, and what you want to let go of.
a written reminder of what you discover about your purpose.
specific immediate goals and intentions for living out your mission.

Undividing a Land on Immigrants: Reframing Hearts with Design

We hypothesis that curious minds will emerge with a new understanding of the core of people's beliefs around immigration. We will share the story of our quest to nudge hearts and minds with empathy, positivity and design to explore and reframe polarizing facets of immigration, dividing our social sea with design thinking.

You will learn if our people-centered engagement methods leveraging design thinking at the enterprise can be applied to create a shared understanding of how to view immigration and co-create potential solutions to redefine social constructs.

At Design Action Lab we've prototyped a unique model to address relevant and local social issues with the goal to forge new relationships, opportunities and design solutions.

Get excited for the experience report to learn what happened when we gathered together souls for a series of workshops on the facets of immigration while challenging participants to explore immigration using the design thinking process.

We proceeded by expecting the unexpected! You will learn what methods we tried, what failed, what worked, our challenges, and how we adapted. Moreover, if indeed any hearts and minds were nudged overtime, our data will tell the story as we will define and capture metrics throughout the series with the help of participant’s feedback.

Design Action Lab has crafted similar experiences since 2016 on topics such as police brutality, poverty, hate crime and more.

We can recreate this experience or share our experience report.

Journey to Unlock Human Potential

Potentiality is distinctive and living with a consciousness composed of an ecosystem that is unlocking our human potential.

The road to uncover better ways is not lonely. It’s a collaborative exploration with mindsets converging into one heartbeat on a continuous journey of improvement.

Unearth what could harness and foster potential and what outcomes are present when releasing potential to discover what learning brings to light the talent within.

Be prepared for your experiences to come back to life with the co-operative storytelling game Tabi created by April Jefferson and Brielle Maxwell.

Gamestorming * Storytelling * Improvisation * Innovation Activity * Interactive Applied Learning Exercise * Lively Retrospectives

Agile Games Keynote, Agile Charm, Women In Agile Open, Mid-Michigan Agile Meetup

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/tabi

Learning Through Reflection

Get uncomfortable at an interactive applied learning experience that exposes the outcomes of cooperation through gamification and retrospection with the game Hanabi. The learning is endless! Come and expose learning and have others revealed in this rollercoaster of a session that could have you nodding, clenching fist, or shouting.

Hanabi is an inexpensive card game with endless agile concepts that gets teams collaborating and delivering. Discover how it can unleash potential.

Session given at Business Agility Midwest, Women In Agile Open, Craft Conf, and multiple meetups.