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SIG: Professional Development - "Design Thinking for Learning Leaders" How to Use Creativity and Innovation to Produce Better Learning Results

  • October 24, 2019
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • The United Way of Houston 50 Waugh Dr. Houston, Texas 77007
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Please join us for this Special Interest Group meeting

Topic:

"Design Thinking for Learning Leaders" How to Use Creativity and Innovation to Produce Better Learning Results

Description:

Innovation should be everywhere. Period! Design Thinking for Learning Leaders is a learning experience that leverages your creativity as a learning designer, facilitator, and manager, showing you how you can apply the basic principles of product innovation to the learning solutions you provide to your customers. You’ll benefit from identifying the different phases of design thinking, learning how to apply them in your talent development processes.

Learn how to go beyond learning facilitation, using design thinking as a practical method of strategic, decision making, and problem-solving meetings, where you can add concrete value to the success of the teams you serve. Grounded in theory, focused on practice, and designed using accelerated, cooperative, and experiential learning, this experience will improve your practice as a talent development professional, engaging you from the very beginning and keeping you enjoying while you acquire and apply proven techniques to enhance your performance.

Learning Objectives:
Why Should I Attend?

• Discover a model that you can use with your internal and external clients, being able to be innovative and effective meeting their performance expectations
• Gain knowledge about how creativity and innovation can be encouraged and used designing and facilitating learning experiences
• Grow your learning and meeting facilitation skills by incorporating a new set of tools to increase your impact and influence


Who Should Attend?

This learning experience is for talent development executives and consultants, corporate university leaders, learning designers, and facilitators who want to offer innovative learning and development solutions that are pleasant, impactful and effective.


What Will You Get as a Takeaway?

You will receive a special edition of an article written by the author, designer, and facilitator with practical ways to remember and apply the model, techniques, and tools. You will participate in a drawing to receive a fees-free learning session conducted by the author, designer, and facilitator in your organization.

ATD Competency Model - Area of Expertise This Session SupportsPerformance Improvement, Instructional Design, Training Delivery, Learning Technologies

Meet Your Speaker:  

Fernando Sanchez-Arias

As a people strategy executive, author, advisor, and coach, Fernando has more than 20 years of experience leading, designing and facilitating learning experiences in cultural and cognitive diversity, digital leadership, cultural intelligence, innovation, learning, and national/organizational culture; for Fortune 100 companies, large national and multi-national enterprises, universities, chambers of commerce, and professional associations. He has built business alliances, conducted keynotes, and facilitated learning sessions and coaching interactions in more than 70 nations for more than 10,000 people from more than 100 countries.

Currently serving as director and member of the leading corporate learning team of a major multibillionaire retailer, Fernando was part of the Work-based Learning Leadership Executive Program offered by the Wharton School and the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Master of Science in Education and is currently writing his doctoral dissertation. He is a former board member of the Association of Talent Development (ATD) and a former world president of Junior Chamber International (JCI). Fernando is an internationally certified ontological executive coach by the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Newfield Consulting, and a Certified Cultural Intelligence Trainer by the Cultural Intelligence Center. He loves running, biking, and yoga.

CONTACT US

Association for Talent Development, Houston Chapter
1321 Antoine Drive, Houston, TX 77055
Email: feedback@tdhouston.org

P 713-839-1757

F 713-839-1453

CHIP Code: CH7032 - Use for every purchase at the ATD Store


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