ADVENTUROUS THINKING incorporates the best of design thinking, maker thinking, empathy and disruptive thinking and augments it with tools gleaned from over a decade of expert frugal innovation practice, adjudication and observation.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING amplifies creative thinking, promotes consistent innovation and assists in making systems, products and strategies more robust and sustainable.ADVENTUROUS THINKING has been successfully applied to education curriculums, product design and business strategy in the USA, Australia and China. Combining the latest research on neural pathways with modern design thinking, ADVENTUROUS THINKING presents tools and techniques that allow every user to be more actively curious and more consistently innovative.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING is based on the Five Lens tools. Each Lens 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 work as tools to push individuals and teams outside their "expert" neural pathways for more diverse ideas and solutions. Each Lens can be used to diffuse and proliferate thinking at ideation stages, and to focus thinking where convergence is needed. ADVENTUROUS THINKING amplifies creative thinking, promotes consistent innovation and assists in making systems, products and strategies more robust and sustainable.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING develops an agile mindset by deliberately provoking participants into a thinking state of bearable discomfort where they are forced to develop new neural pathways as alternatives to their “expert” state of mind. Read more about neural plasticity and the ADVENTUROUS THINKING strategy here.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING ACTIVATES AN AGILE MINDSET FOR A CONSISTENTLY INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE
I have loved your class––the concepts, your presentation style, the state-of-the-art design ideas, the reading, the examples you have provided, and especially the group interactions as we applied the concepts. Thank you for your knowledge and your preparation to ensure that we would have a great, hands-on and insightful experience.
Communication Coach & Stanford Adventurous Thinking student 2014
Sally's podcast for the Gemba Academy of Lean Thinking is here.
The course gave me a completely different perspective on design thinking and problem solving, and I would highly recommend it to friends and colleagues. This material needs to be taught in corporate environments where innovation and critical thinking intersect. Sally is an amazing and inspirational force of nature, very grateful to have had the chance to be in her class. Systems Designer & Stanford Adventurous Thinking student 2015