Online Innovation Course

expand your Personal awareness of psychology, tech and your fit with opportunities — and advance your probabilities for success

Today’s tech, social media and societal shifts create opportunities for new and bolder design, new hybrid business models, life-style products and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, this — combined with the wild advance of today’s AI — calls for young professionals to gain deeper, and earlier, personal understanding of themselves and broader happenings around them — of design, perceptions and people challenges, and broader awareness across career disciplines. This, because the Cross-discipline Creative is then able to better leverage today’s amazing access to information, and more easily explore opportunities rapidly with quick sketching, AI, computer design, mock-ups and 3D printing, and better convey and explore your ideas and concepts with others. This expands capabilities for success, whether your interests are Art, Food and Entertainment, Software, Tech, Service Business, Engineering, Architecture, Manufacturing, Logistics or other. Advance yourself and your friends as a power base for cross-discipline thinking, innovation and “next level” outcomes.

Think Deeper, Grow Personally and Connect with Cross-Discipline Creatives — And Expand Innovation!

Russ Strong works across industries, across the engineering, arts and styling/design fields, across “making” and management consulting. A proven innovator with over 60 patents and major products in use around the world, Russ believes in broadened awareness, awareness of fields and experiences outside of your normal — to better connect insights from across STEM, arts, business, psychology, anthropology, political policy, education, health, wellness, and community. Join Russ as he brings his experience and inspiration to helping you advance your innovation power and creative differentiation in life endeavors.

8-week course

— or 16-week course

Utilize the 8-week course format to fit your studies into a summer time frame — or hold yourself to more rapidly working through this material and growing your innovation capabilities. Do this course with a friend and advance your grasp of concepts ever more firmly via discussing together the key review points provided.

Utilize the 16-week course format to fit your studies to a college semester time frame. During this, or equivalent period, you will develop a notable advance in your innovation capabilities. If you do this course as a team with other students, your efforts together will further enhance your growth as a cross-discipline innovator.

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Group Study opportunity

This course is structured well for groups desiring to hold in-person review & panel discussions on study topics every 2 weeks

SUggestion for “Innovation hubs”:

organize an 8-event series, where every two weeks, 2 regional leaders/mentors lead Review of the Course material of those two weeks (these Panel Members of that week being experienced and sharing further stories in the disciplines and review topics of those 2 weeks). Advantage: both deepen the students’ learning, and advance the connectivity of students/”creatives” and Region’s Mentors — greatly expanding later probabilities in regional economic development

Lead a group program with your young people of talent and creativity on a 8 or 16 week workshop course on increasing innovation. Expand your ability to imagine and execute business goals that include differentiating yourself from competition — whether in engineering, marketing, retail, architecture, food services and other businesses.