Design Thinking is quickly becoming a fundamental tool for innovation. It is a creative problem-solving methodology that can help business leaders find new, creative solutions to increasingly complex global challenges. This session will introduce the basic elements of design thinking, including empathy, ideation, and iteration and provide examples of how to use those techniques to develop new products and identify new business opportunities. Participants will learn a human-centered approach for generating and evaluating new ideas and will identify opportunities to apply that process in their daily work. Learning Objectives: Through interactive experiences in the Design Thinking course, attendees will:

• Learn how design thinking works and consider how they might apply these skills and practices to their own work.
• Learn how to develop empathy with stakeholders and translate their needs into innovative ideas
• Practice ideation and rapid prototyping techniques to generate better ideas faster