Leadership in Times of Disruption: Sustainable Innovation & Circular Design
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Leadership in Times of Disruption: Sustainable Innovation & Circular Design
The current linear system of “take-make-waste” is no longer working for businesses, people and the environment. It is time for disruption, time to make the shift towards a new system - the circular economy. Sustainable innovation and circular design is a key concept that will have a critical role in enabling this transformation.
Taking your organization on the journey to the circular economy with human-centred methods is not just about becoming more environmentally friendly and innovative. It is changing your business fundamentally in terms of minimising risks and offering a whole universe of new business opportunities. Change starts on an interpersonal level and touches the entire bandwidth of an organization - teams, products, business model, brands, and entire systems.
Content
In this workshop, you will:
- Explore the fundamentals of a circular economy
- Understand the principles of circular design
- Learn about circular strategies & business models
- Get inspired by best-practices
- Go through a hands-on experience of circular strategies
- Reflect & identify your first steps towards the circular economy
- Learn how the shift can be initiated and supported on any leadership level
Your Coaches
Irina Pfenning
Personal Information
- Master of Fine Arts in Strategic Design - Communication Design, HS Mannheim
- BfA in Industrial Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, USA
Professional Career
- 2022 - today Co-Founder of Attacoeurs, Circular Designers
- 2020 - today Lecturer on Customer Experience and Social Innovation at the Graduate School Rhein-Neckar, Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences
- 2015 - today Co-Founder of Innovate!
- 2014 - today Founder of INOVIS - Innovation Visualized
Focus and Experience
- Strategic Design
- Circular Design and Sustainable Innovation
- Innovation, Creativity, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking, Story Telling
Sven Marten
Personal Information
- Dipl.-Industrial-Designer, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Professional Career
- 2022 - today Division Manager Digitalization & Systems, JobRad GmbH
- 2012 Chief Designer, Member of the Management Team, sovanta AG
- 2000 Founder and Managing Director, echtweiss Design
- 1996 Founder and Managing Director, Planwerk Product Design
Focus and Experience
- Strategic Product Design, Circular Design
- Building innovative product-teams and organizations
- Business Design & Business Modell Innovation
- Digitalization and technology driven Innovation
- Product & Service Platforms and Applications
MANNHEIM BUSINESS SCHOOL (MBS)
Located in the heart of the German and European economy, Mannheim Business School (MBS), the umbrella organization for management education at the University of Mannheim, is considered to be one of the leading institutions of its kind in Germany and is continuously ranked as Germany’s #1.
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