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Keynote activations
Sticky moments that create new habits around exponential thinking and possibility mindset, customized to the audience.
Taught at Stanford · Used at NASA, Sony, Honeywell, Roche, Citi
Tools that help every person in your organization become a better thinker.
Adventurous Thinking is a possibility-thinking system for organizations. Five Lenses push teams outside their expertise into bearable discomfort, where genuinely new ideas live.
The mindset organizations use to level up design thinking and thrive in exponential change. Developed by award-winning inventor and futurist Sally Dominguez.
AI makes expertise cheap. Originality is the skill that remains.
Adventurous Thinking amplifies creative thinking, promotes consistent innovation and helps make systems, products and strategies more robust and sustainable. It develops an agile mindset by deliberately provoking participants into a thinking state of bearable discomfort, where new neural pathways form as alternatives to the "expert" state of mind.
Each of the Five Lenses provokes a distinct and extreme point of view in a simple, comprehensible framework. Used as a set, the Lenses pluralize an existing product, system or environment to reveal its multiple meanings, and push individuals and teams outside their expert neural pathways for more diverse ideas and solutions.
Five Lenses. One multifarious perspective.
Negative Space · Thinking Sideways · Thinking Backwards · ReThinking · Parkour
Select a lens to see its provocation and a micro-example. Together they turn teams into Multifarians, people who view issues and opportunities from a diverse set of viewpoints.
The Five Lenses
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Negative Space
What is missing that everyone else is ignoring?
Look at the gaps between products, markets and assumptions. Opportunity often lives in what is absent.
How Adventurous Thinking is delivered.
From activated keynotes to multi-day workshops, tertiary curriculum and leadership coaching, AT is designed to stick.
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Workshops
90 minutes to multi-day. Hands-on group and individual exercises with customized prompts, debriefs and critical feedback.
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Curriculum
Taught at Stanford and Singularity Universities, and at tertiary level in the USA and Brazil.
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Coaching
Individual and group moonshot leadership coaching, including Sony Corporation's leadership team.
Build Multifarians in your organization.
A Multifarian views issues and opportunities from a diverse set of viewpoints. Characteristics include curiosity, an openness to new ideas, and a healthy disregard for failure. Adventurous Thinking's Five Lenses coach leaders and teams into that multifarious mindset.
Video interview series exploring how multi-faceted creative people do their thing.
A workshop changes a room. Xpollinate changes an organization.
Adventurous Thinking tools exist as AI-assisted digital tools inside Xpollinate. The same lenses, available to hundreds or thousands of employees, with governance, provenance and collaboration built in.
High-touch teaching builds the skill. The platform embeds it in daily work. Many organizations do both.
From the workshop floor.
“This material needs to be taught in corporate environments where innovation and critical thinking intersect.”
“Sally is very engaging, articulate and informative teacher and instructor. Her passion is very infectious and she can inspire her audience with her energy, knowledge and presentation. She brought a lot of ideas, helped execute well and kept everyone engaged. For a soft skill course like this, it was a great process and worked very well. I would like to recommend this course to others if offered in next schedules.”
“....Today you teach us many different ways of thinking and inventing in a very vivid way. We interact and participate in the project practice and learned it in a pleasant way. The whole lesson impressed me so deeply. :-)”
Bring Adventurous Thinking to your organization.
Book a workshop, keynote or coaching engagement with Sally, or scale the methodology across your workforce with Xpollinate.
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