Morehouse School of Medicine employees who find themselves imagining better, different, or more efficient ways of operating

Morehouse School of Medicine employees charged with managing programs, projects, and processes within a unit or department

Morehouse School of Medicine employees seeking new professional development opportunities

Employees will be able to employ a human-centered design thinking methodology and related tools that empower them to:

• Step into others' lived experience with a program, service, process, etc. to feel what they feel while suspending their assumptions

• Frame a problem based on others' lived experience which includes shining a light on others' functional and emotional needs

• Unearth and discover creative ideas through adopting new frames or mental models

• Translate their creative ideas into their innovative masterpiece that wows the users, stakeholders, and other beneficiaries

• Refine and scale their innovative masterpiece towards full fruition and desired impact

At the completion of all four Imagine Workshops, employees will be able to:

• Develop a more collaborative and iterative style of work for groups/teams

• Identify the drivers and inhibitors of innovation

• Lead collaborative problem-solving testing and validate problem-solution fit

• Create and present a business case, using compelling storytelling

• Identify areas for improvement and drive process improvement from ideation to implementation