Discover the Realm of Possibilities

Explore how to flip problems into opportunities

Presented Denise Reed

Event Sponsor

Meet our featured expertMeet Mona Patel is the CEO & Founder of Motivate Design, a user-centered design agency based in New York City. Motivate Design helps clients discover customer needs and designs solutions to meet those needs. In recent her book, Reframe: Shift the Way you Work, Innovate and Think, Mona demonstrates how her 8-step creative process can help companies innovate and design simple, beautiful experiences. In addition to helping clients and other Fortune 500 companies become unstuck, Mona is also a teacher at Parsons, the New School for Design.

Lean In: See Problems As Opportunities

Discover the Realm of Possibilities

● What’s first? The exploration of possibility.

● What creates a shift?

● How will your possibilities change?

What’s first? The exploration of possibility.

● Define the opportunity for improvement○ Include:

■ People■ Resources■ Process (how you currently do it/how it currently happens)

● Are there gaps contributing to or taking away from this opportunity to improve?

○ Include:■ People - training, different procedures■ Resources - should they be different■ Process - should this change

What creates a shift?

“Can’t is a mindset that can be designed around.”

- Mona Patel

What creates a shift?

● Create a positive perspective:○ Create a list of negative and think the opposite.○ Ask, what if…○ Ask, how might we...

What creates a shift?

The famous Rubin’s vase is a perfect example of switching your perspective from vases to faces.

Sometimes switching from negative to positive means everything to creating opportunity,which vase are you?

What creates a shift?

Always look for opportunity, so you can create it.

How will your possibilities change?

● What opportunity will you create?● How can we help?● What’s your greatest takeaway?

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