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UPCOMING SESSIONS:

These workshops are now complete 

 

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Twenty first century business leaders need to be flexible, knowledgeable and be able to inspire people to think creatively and critically about the myriad of problems that confront them daily. This short course provides participants with knowledge and tools to become constructive and reflective agents of change.

The course aims to:
  • Generate alternative ideas, practices, and solutions that are unique and effective,
  • Explore ways to confront complex, messy, ambiguous problems, make new connections, and see how things could be otherwise
  • Gain practical skills to facilitate creativity and enhance innovation
  • Learn how to work effectively with and in teams to solve problems, produce creative outcomes and design solutions in business and other contexts
  • Encourage participants to identify and overcome barriers to creativity and innovation in their businesses
  • Understand what elements foster a creative culture and what distinguishes creative organisations.
Participants will:
  • participate in a variety of activities that require the application of tools, skills and knowledge
  • complete a reflective task
  • have the opportunity to present ideas and receive feedback
  • network with other likeminded business professionals

A pre-recorded session will be provided as will a resource list

Presenters from Federation Business School: Dr Helen Weadon & Dr Shelley Bowen
Dr Helen Weadon

Dr Helen Weadon has had extensive experience as an educator and leader in the education field. Helen is currently the Associate Dean Teaching Quality in Federation Business School where she has lectured in Human Centred Design, Business Communications, Principles of Responsible Business Education and the role of Business Schools in preparing ethical leaders for the future. She is on the Executive Committee for Learning and teaching for the Australian Business Deans Council. Helen teaches in the MBA program and has supervised students in Industry projects spanning many sectors. She is involved in researching in creativity and lifelong learning and has presented her work at international conferences. Helen has delivered short courses to industry in the area of Design Thinking. She is a member of AICD and currently sits on a NFP Board. Helen’s passion in design thinking emanates from her belief that asking the right questions underpins innovation.

Dr Shelley Bowen

Dr Shelley Bowen is a founder and CEO of Health Futures Australia, a not-for-profit health promotion charity based in central Victoria, with a vision of building a healthier Australia. She has worked at state, national and international levels. Her previous role was the Senior Public Health Advisor for the Victorian government, where she led the redesign of preventive health in Victoria. Awarded recognition as one of Australia’s most influential women in 2014 Shelley’s preventive health entrepreneurship has led to a focus on working to create a new social market for health and wellbeing outcomes in Australia through the design of transformative policy, practice and social change processes. In February 2020 she graduated from Stanford Business School Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship, gaining valuable insight to social innovation, entrepreneurship, and enterprise. She subsequently has set up a start-up, and social enterprise businesses under Health Futures Australia. Shelley has facilitated hundreds of design-thinking and innovation sessions with business, government, academia, and practitioners. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Education, a Master of Public Health (Management) and a PhD in Public Health (NHMRC Award). Shelley is also a Westpac Social Change Fellow (2019).