F**k ups may be inevitable, though staying stuck doesn’t have to be. This workshop helps participants break free from the mental traps that keeps us dwelling on past mistakes, learning how to shift our focus toward growth, resilience, and action. Through a mix of cognitive reframing techniques and practical action-oriented strategies, participants will learn how to bounce back with confidence, reignite our motivation, and turn failures into fuel for future success.
Leaders Aren’t Born – They’re Made.
At The Leadership Laboratory, we forge cutting-edge team + leadership development workshops specifically designed for innovation teams and change management professionals. We understand that transformation specialists operate in forward-thinking, evolution-focused environments that require leadership approaches emphasizing adaptive strategy, creative problem-solving, and organizational transformation facilitation. Our methodology centers on cultivating innovation and change leadership capabilities that thrive through breakthrough development opportunities, transformation initiatives, and future-focused organizational evolution.
From innovation labs and change management consultants to transformation project leaders, organizational development specialists, and digital transformation professionals, our future-oriented, transformation-focused approach ensures immediate application and accelerated change leadership effectiveness. We recognize that innovation and change management teams bring exceptional visionary thinking, adaptive problem-solving expertise, and transformation facilitation skills – our workshops multiply these change-catalyst strengths while introducing leadership frameworks that enhance stakeholder engagement, innovation collaboration, and transformation execution excellence. Our innovation and change leadership workshops integrate design thinking principles with advanced team development, creating experiences that inspire transformation professionals while driving measurable improvements in team adaptability and innovation delivery success. This transformation-specific approach celebrates the forward-thinking, possibility-focused mindset that defines successful innovation and change organizations, providing strategic preparation for senior transformation leadership roles.
Suggested Leadership Workshops: Innovation & Change Management Teams
Bouncing Back from a F**k Up
Approaching Setbacks with a Learning Mindset
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the five common THINKING TRAPS where individuals get stuck, and discover the ESCAPE ROUTE strategies to help ourselves and others to break free
- ILeverage positive psychology to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset
- Inspire a culture of resilience, trust, and psychological safety
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Confidence
- Emotional Intelligence
- Effective Communication
Learning Objectives:
- Determine personal approach to conflict conversations, and discover the five differing conflict styles
- Identify benefits and potential obstacles for each style to clarify effective conflict communication strategies
- Develop an action + implementation plan for positive, long-term behavior change
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Effective Communication
- Adaptability + Assertiveness
- Consensus Building + Alignment
We Can Work It Out
An Experiment with Conflict & Consensus Building
While frequent conflict can certainly be taxing or uncomfortable, disagreements can often lead to enhanced respect, open-mindedness, and innovation. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to understand various reactions to conflict, and discover which response is most appropriate for a given situation. Participants leave this session with a deeper understanding of their natural communication style during times of conflict, and a refreshed outlook on how to approach these conversations in the future.
Shift Happens: Innovation in Times of Change
Leveraging Design Theory for Strategic & Creative Transformation
In times of change, innovation isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. This workshop equips participants with practical tools and strategies to embrace uncertainty, reframe challenges as opportunities, and foster a culture of creative problem-solving. Using principles of design thinking and adaptive leadership, teams will explore new ways to generate ideas, test solutions, and drive meaningful change, ensuring they stay agile and future-focused in an ever-evolving landscape.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the CURRENT STATE and FUTURE STATE of the team’s collective goals and objectives
- Experiment with design thinking methodology to begin ideation of creative, implementable action plans to fully realize your team’s ideal future state
- Leverage positive psychology to create future-focused, behavior-based outcomes
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Strategic Thinking + Goal Setting
- Creativity + Innovation
- Positive Psychology & Growth Mindset
Learning Objectives:
- Differentiate between the topics of CHANGE and TRANSITION, exploring “the people side” of change
- Identify key actions to successfully navigate each phase of transition
- Develop an action + implementation plan, fit with details of specific steps to support others during times of ambiguity
Key Themes & Leadership Behaviors:
- Change Agility + Adaptability
- Increased Empathy + Awareness
- Team-Focused Strategy + Mindset
Taking Charge of Change
Navigating Ambiguity During Change + Transition
Until we can predict the future, we all must rely on an increased change agility to handle the surprises we’re thrown each day. Whether preparing for an upcoming transition, or reflecting on change scenarios we’re currently navigating, this session helps to delineate between the concepts of change and transition, showcasing key frameworks and tools that help individuals identify their own responses to change, and support one another to successfully navigate times of ambiguity.
Why Innovation & Change Management Teams Choose The Leadership Laboratory
Innovation and change team development requires sophisticated understanding of transformation psychology, stakeholder adoption strategies, and innovation process management. Change professionals need leadership strategies that enhance their ability to inspire organizational evolution while building resilient, adaptive team environments that accelerate both individual transformation effectiveness and collective innovation impact. The Leadership Laboratory delivers transformation leadership workshops that are forward-thinking, strategy-focused, and designed to maximize the innovation potential within progressive change management organizations.
Our data-driven innovation and change workshops blend the art and science of leadership development to create adaptive, experiential learning experiences – strengthening transformation leadership effectiveness and change management performance. We understand that innovation and change professionals demonstrate remarkable future-focused thinking, creative solution development abilities, and organizational transformation insight. Our approach focuses on expanding these existing transformation competencies while introducing change leadership skills that improve stakeholder influence, innovation team coordination, and transformation strategy implementation.
Whether your team encompasses design thinking facilitators, organizational change consultants, innovation strategists, or digital transformation managers, The Leadership Laboratory creates adaptive, research-supported workshops that reinforce current innovation excellence, enhance transformation leadership presence, and generate superior creative collaboration, stakeholder engagement strategies, and organizational change outcomes. Established on innovation research and change management psychology studies, our framework emphasizes transformation potential maximization over change resistance, highlighting innovation excellence and organizational evolution success.
The Leadership Laboratory operates nationwide with both in-person and virtual healthcare leadership development workshops. We proudly serve healthcare organizations around the world and throughout the United States across the country, including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.
Strategic Considerations for Innovation & Change Team Development
Innovation and change leadership workshops address the distinctive balance between creative vision and systematic transformation execution that characterizes effective change management organizations. Our approach recognizes that innovation and change professionals excel when equipped with advanced stakeholder influence skills, creative facilitation methodologies, and transformation communication frameworks that enhance both individual change contributions and organizational innovation outcomes.
The Leadership Laboratory's innovation and change leadership training integrates creative thinking development with transformation management expertise, ensuring participants develop both the visionary mindset and systematic execution skills necessary for senior transformation leadership advancement. We focus on building influence capabilities across resistant stakeholder groups, creative communication abilities for complex organizational changes, and the emotional intelligence required to lead diverse innovation personalities while maintaining transformation momentum and organizational change objectives.
Our methodology acknowledges that innovation and change teams navigate unique leadership opportunities including transformation vision development, stakeholder adoption facilitation, and innovation culture creation that require specialized change leadership expertise. We create workshop experiences that honor transformation-focused mission while introducing leadership concepts that enhance creative team effectiveness and organizational change influence.
Our innovation and change leadership development workshops implement specialized approaches created exclusively for transformation environments, generating significant improvements in change team communication, creative transformation thinking, and collaborative innovation leadership to inspire sustained transformation excellence throughout your innovation and change management organization.
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The Leadership Laboratory works across multiple industries - including start-up and established technology firms, non-profit and government agencies, finance companies, healthcare organizations and more. We are proud to collaborate with individuals and teams of all sizes.
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Collaborating Partners
“I laughed harder than I have in a while!”
Our workshop was engaging, informative, rejuvenating and pure fun. I laughed harder than I have in a while! This was a phenomenal way to get more comfortable as a team.
— Director of People, SpotHero
“You made this easy to apply and implement”
You listened to our needs and adapted on the spot to incorporate leadership lessons. Every element was backed up by research, and you made this easy to apply and implement.
— VP / HEAD OF PEOPLE, WARBY PARKER
Meet Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein is the founder of The Leadership Laboratory, and leverages his experiences in education, the performing arts, and corporate learning & leadership development to his work. As a performer, Jacob has sung as a backup vocalist for musical artists such as Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, and Patti LuPone, as a recording artist for Netflix series Sense8, and at venues including The United Center, The Chicago Theater, and Chicago Symphony Center. In the education space, Jacob has served as an educator for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, and has been a Guest Lecturer at Northwestern University since 2016. As a Learning & Leadership Development Consultant, Jacob has worked as a one-on-one coach and group workshop facilitator to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, non-profit, and fashion/apparel. Jacob holds a Bachelor’s degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s of Science in Communication from Northwestern University.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Typical Size of Innovation & Change Management Leadership Development Workshops?
At The Leadership Laboratory, we customize each learning experience to align with your team and culture. Traditionally, we recommend between 20 – 30 participants per workshop, though often work with groups as small as 5 to as large as 5,000+. Knowing your audience size can help us to design a workshop partnership to maximize engagement and participation, and honor each participant at their respective knowledge and experience level.
Are Innovation & Change Management Leadership Development Workshops Available Both In-Person and Virtually?
Yes! All of our programming can be facilitated on-site, virtually, or in a hybrid format (virtual facilitation to an in-person audience). For both on-site and virtual workshops, we traditionally recommend a lead time of 6 – 8 weeks to get your top choice of date for a facilitated partnership.
How Do We Choose Innovation & Change Management Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
When working with a new partner, we leverage a process called backwards design theory to curate a tailored learning experience. One of the first questions that we ask is “what would you like this audience to do differently as a result of this collaboration?” – in other words, what are the skills or behaviors you’d like this group to have, or the knowledge they want to possess?
Once we know and define these learning objectives, we can work backwards and partner with you to determine what content can support in making those goals a reality. For a sample list of workshops, feel free to check our Workshop + Experiments pages, or browse the Workshop by Industry or Workshops by Role pages for additional recommendations.
How Long are Innovation & Change Management Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
Each of our workshops is designed to be approximately 2.5 – 3 hours in length. For on-site partnerships, most groups opt for two back-to-back workshop topics to create a full day of learning. For teams looking for sessions outside of the standard length, please contact The Leadership Laboratory to discuss more customized options.
Can We Customize Innovation & Change Management Teams Leadership Development Workshops?
Yes! At The Leadership Laboratory, we leverage a process called backwards design theory to curate a tailored learning experience. As we collaborate with you to learn more about your goals, we can incorporate information about your team’s culture, organizational strategy, and industry trends to design an experience that truly resonates, with easy-to-apply concepts that lead to long-term, positive behavior change.
We know that each participant has their own unique learning goals, and have designed our leadership development experiences to customize our content to each person in the moment. We kick-off each workshop with an opportunity to learn more about the goals of each participant in the room, and align the experience to what is most top-of-mind for them. This differentiated learning allows us to adjust to each unique participant, as well as honor the diverse perspectives, roles, and experience in the room.
Does The Leadership Laboratory Work with Individual Innovation & Change Management Professionals?
At The Leadership Laboratory, most of our workshops are designed for teams or groups of leaders within organizations. As we focus on customizing each leadership development experience to the unique elements of each organization’s culture and team’s communication style, our work is focused on sessions that departments or groups within the same organization can participate in together, as opposed to sessions that individuals can sign up for on their own.
For individuals looking for one-on-one development, The Leadership Laboratory offers select executive coaching and thought partnership opportunities. Feel free to reach out directly for more information.