Strategic Innovation Program Adelaide
Strategic Innovation Program Adelaide
- State or territory SA
- Type of program In person, Workshop
- Sector relevance InnovAGEING
- Topic relevance Innovation
Workshop overview
This two-day, face-to-face program will be held 24-25 February at the Playford Hotel, Adelaide.
Unleash your creative genius! The strategic innovation program is more than a training event, it’s an investment in your organisation’s future. We invite you to bring along your most important organisational challenge and solve it during this 2 day, in person program. Working with a small group of thought leaders, you will acquire world-leading innovation skills, realise new opportunities, collaborate with like-minded peers, whilst solving intractable challenges.
The outcomes are:
As part of Ageing Australia’s InnovAGEING initiative, this program has been designed to equip and future proof senior leaders with world leading strategic innovation skills.
At the same time, it will connect you with a network of like-minded leaders who are as ambitious and committed to change as you are.
You will meet other sector thought leaders and have the opportunity to work together in small groups on an area of shared strategic interest.
With periodic check-ins and presentations to and from the group, you will have access to live feedback from your peers and our innovation experts, with the opportunity to pitch a pilot concept on the final day.
You will take the amended pilot canvas back to your leadership team in implementation-ready form and be able make immediate progress on an aspect of your current strategy.
This is not two days ‘out’ of your business, it is two days of immersive, intense collaboration and skills acquisition to produce a strategic innovation that truly matters for your organisation.
The program is grounded in the absolute latest cognitive and social neuroscience and covers the strategic innovation essentials of:
- Framing: Thinking from first principles and identifying potent strategic levers for systemic change.
- Reflexion: Strengths-led discovery, combined with an exploration of creative alpha brain-states.
- Analogy: Mining metaphors for insight, including the 3.8 billion years of nature’s genius.
- Modelling: Mental modelling with the hand-brain connection; ‘building to think’.
- Emagination: Advanced ideation techniques incorporating empathy in artificial intelligence.
- Socialisation: Establishing credibility and emotional connection with neuroscientific narratives.
- Experimentation: Reducing cost and risk with skillful pilot design and experimentation.
- Transformation: Embedding change through collective habit formation and new ways of working.
Date: 24-25 February 2026
Time: 9.30am-5pm
Ageing Australia member
$2,750 incl. GST
Non member
$3,575 incl. GST
Location:
Playford Hotel, Adelaide
120 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Who is facilitating?
Paul Hawkins
Paul founded Crazy Might Work (the first leadership academy to be launched in Antarctica) in 2015, with a mission to bring leadership lessons from frontiers like space to the workplace. Today Crazy Might Work is ACCPA’s strategic innovation partner and the leading provider of the Four Dimensional Leadership program used by NASA. Prior to launching Crazy Might Work, Paul worked in over 20 countries, on everything from mergers and acquisitions to setting up global shared services. He chairs the Board of a Community Services organisation, as well as annual symposia like World Forum Disrupt and the Humans in Space Summit. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on the subjects of innovation and leadership, and a skilled master of ceremonies and moderator. With formal qualifications in education, business and innovation, and accreditations in neuroscience and appreciative inquiry, as well as a pending PhD in breakthrough innovation.
Booking terms and conditions
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Cancellation policy
Cancellations must be notified in writing to . Any cancellations made within 30 days prior to the webinar will be non-refundable. Delegates who, after registering, find themselves unable to attend the webinar are welcome to nominate a substitute and must inform the Ageing Australia events team in writing as soon as possible.
Payment policy
It is a condition that full payment is received within 14 days of receipt of the tax invoice or 10 business days prior to the webinar, whichever occurs first. Delegates who have outstanding payments will be asked to make payment prior to the commencement of the webinar and will not be admitted to the webinar until payment has been processed. Upon initial registration, a Tax Invoice/Receipt will be emailed to the person making the booking
Disclaimer
Information is of a general nature only and has been prepared without taking into account your organisations particular needs, circumstances and objectives. Some information presented in is of a general nature and participants may need to take into account their organisation’s particular needs, circumstances and objectives. While every effort has been made to disseminate accurate information at the time of presentation, legislative changes occur regularly. Participants are responsible for ensuring they are working to the most current regulatory requirements.
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