OUR WORK: DESIGNING CULTURE, UNLEASHING POTENTIAL

 
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Innovation and creativity arise from how we work together, driven by our individual and collective purpose. Whether a school, a startup, or a major corporation—thriving depends on how our people show up, how they support and challenge each other, and whether it is safe for them to be brave.

Eliad Group works co-creatively with leaders, teachers, managers and administrators to enhance their ability to design and hold spaces where humans flourish. Together we help you connect to purpose, develop practices that help you iterate faster and with greater clarity, and unleash your collective potential.

Our most in-demand engagements:

INNOVATION ACCELERATOR

An intensive, hands-on design thinking bootcamp for unleashing creative potential (half-day to 3 days). 

“…exceeded my expectations as well as those of our team.”

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IN AND OUT OF THE BOX

As creativity becomes a core competency necessary at all levels of the organization, it is important that we not just tell people to think out of the box, but show them how to do so. 

“Without the box, I can think of new, innovative ideas”

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ALIGNMENT AUDIT

Leave this workshop armed with x-ray clarity on the integrity of your core foundation: consensus on where you are heading, on the best road to get there and on the best vehicle to take on that road. 

“This is exactly what we needed!”

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RESHAPING SCHOOL

This day-long Launchpad for school communities is a transformative experience, a launchpad for moving from command-and-control to co-creation. 

“Eliad Group have been important partners in envisioning what is possible in education…”

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Or, what can we create together?

CONSULTING

We work with you to design an innovative and productive culture, and can help implement the strategies and systems needed to support growth.

Our team brings global expertise in leadership, culture, design thinking, and education to help your organization unleash its full potential. With our support and insights, your organization can thrive in this age of opportunity.  

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COACHING

We support organizations by building capacities that unlock individual and collective potential.

Our coaching leads to deep inner knowing and an eco-systems awareness that enable wiser, more creative leadership. Our approach cultivates presence and purpose, enabling people with the capacities to define a vision and bring it into reality.

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FACILITATION

Our catalysts, authorities on design thinking and human potential, partner with you to co-create and facilitate programs that result in empowered organizations and innovation.

Enabling people to work in creative collaboration is a key to success. Our bespoke workshops and retreats cultivate purposeful action and collective intelligence- which lead to innovation, renewal, and transformation.

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UX/CX RESEARCH+DESIGN

Grounded in research, we discover stakeholder’s needs, then design engaging, impactful, and satisfying experiences. 

Whether you are seeking to transform to a cusrtomer-centric organization, or are invested in improving people’s experience of your product or service, we can help. We offer the latest UX/ CX research and design tools.

 

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Interested, but not sure where to start? We can figure that out together. No obligation. Let’s chat.
 
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INNOVATION ACCELERATOR

Organizations that thrive in the future will have cultures of innovation, with the tools, habits, and mindsets to keep that creative fire burning. Unfortunately, school and society have conditioned us out of our natural creative mindsets, and generally our ways of working together reinforce this limitation. Our dormant creativity is there, but we need to hack our default ways of interacting and of approaching challenges to bring it forward.

The Innovation Accelerator is an intensive, hands-on bootcamp for unleashing creative potential (half-day to 3 day). Participants will utilize Meaning Centered Design as a lens for identifying untapped opportunity, uncovering valuable insights, and designing and testing innovative solutions that leverage insight. They will experience and understand the conditions necessary for high performance teams to hack default ways of approaching problems and each other, and to collectively leverage other ways of knowing. And they will move the dial on important institutional challenges.

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“…exceeded my expectations as well as those of our team.”

Joshua Ramey-Renk SPHR VP Learning & Organizational Development, Financial Institution 

 

IN AND OUT OF THE BOX

As creativity becomes a core competency necessary at all levels of the organization, it is important that we not just tell people to think out of the box, but show them how to do so.

In this program, participants take the phrase, “Think out of the box,” literally, using a physical box to represent the boundaries and barriers to their thinking. Understanding our Box improves team dynamics and creativity, and helps us as individuals identify and reduce stress that interferes with productivity.

The Box program brings profound insight into the role the boundaries of our thinking (our box) plays in our success and happiness, the methodologies for thinking beyond those boundaries, and the importance of not just thinking out of the box, but thinking back into a better box.

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“It was during the Out of the Box activity that I learned of how our strong opinions can lead to prejudice. On the inside of “The Box”, there are rules, pressures, expectations, etc. Taking off “The Box” relieves me of the heaviness on my head and mind. Without the box, I can think of new, innovative ideas”

Operations Manager, Galaxy Macau

 

ALIGNMENT AUDIT

The foundation of any healthy organization sits on alignment of vision, mission, values, and practices. Does everyone agree on where you are heading? On the best road to get there? On the best vehicle to take on that road?

Our Alignment Audit is a two day workshop during which these questions are answered visually and viscerally. Participants are guided through a co-creative experience built on the principles of meaning-centered design. Powerful tools are used to tap into other ways of knowing, hack default tendencies, and shed powerful light on individual and collective understandings.

Organizations having engaged in the Alignment Audit leave armed with x-ray clarity on the integrity of their core foundation. Strong alignment positions an organization to move into high integrity strategic planning with increased clarity and buy-in. If weak alignment is revealed, it will be clear where and why. Focused interventions can then follow to forge authentic alignment. In both cases, new co-creative habits and tools will leave increased organizational capacity for continual calibration of goals, strategy, and practice.

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“I called my wife during the break to share my excitement. This is exactly what we needed!”

Brian G., Board Chair, Bay View Academy

 

RESHAPING SCHOOL

If we are going to move from the dominant paradigm of schools: “Do what I tell you or else” to “What are your goals, and how can I help?” —the definition of a co-creative shift—we need to re-evaluate the relationships of teacher to student, student to learning, and school to community.

This day-long Launchpad for school communities is a transformative experience, a launchpad for moving from command-and-control to co-creation. Together, we examine the fundamental beliefs and structures that perpetuate command-and-control learning, re-connect to the values and outcomes we want for ourselves and our communities, and explore practices and structures in alignment with our visions. Leadership, learning principles, educative structures—all are re-visited to find the throughline of co-creative, re-humanized learning.

School communities will leave with clarity on key leverage points to get the changes they want, and the beginnings of a roadmap to get there. Just as importantly, they will leave with co-creative tools to continue the journey.

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“Eliad Group have been important partners in envisioning what is possible in education and in supporting our school community in evolving culture and teaching practices in support of our student-driven and co-creative learning environment.”

Richard Pratt, Director, Chinese International School, Hangzhou