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Participants will have the chance to apply the Critical & Creative Design Thinking Process to a familiar problem they may encounter at work!
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Thursday, September 14 · 8 – 9am PDT
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About this event
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In the final installment of their webinar series, Greg Smogard + Helene Robinson will demonstrate how to engage your slow brain!
Session 3 will provide attendees with an overview of:
Tips and tools to slow down your thinking to mitigate making assumptions or biases.
How to collect empathy data and understand the impact of using empathy data to reframe the core problem of a situation.
Digging deep into assumptions and biases, and their impacts on collaboration in the workplace.
This will be an interactive webinar. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the Critical & Creative Design Thinking Process to a familiar problem they may encounter in their workplace.
Assistant Vice President of Innovation and Business Development
Dr. Smogard is the Assistant Vice President of Innovation and Business Development. He leads the Sarasota-Manatee campus’ business engagement efforts with a focus on creating and enhancing mutually beneficial opportunities between business and our faculty and students. Additionally, he teaches a course on Student Consulting and works with the Critical and Creative Design Thinking Program to design and deliver external training courses to individuals, businesses, and organizations.
He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and global brands in more than 40 countries and held management positions at American Express’ Latin American Division, and Blockbuster/Viacom. Dr.
Smogard is author of the book, “A World of Opportunities for Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Creating Your Own Job in the New Normal.”
Director of the Critical & Creative Design Thinking Program, Arts Integration Coordinator, Associate Professor of Instruction
Dr. Robinson is the director of the CCDT program, the Arts Integration coordinator, an associate professor of instruction in the College of Education, and affiliate faculty in the department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee campus.
Her research, teaching, and writing focus on arts integration methods to create inclusive learning environments, applied behavioral analysis to create multi-tiered systems of support, special education pedagogy, social/emotional skill development, developing empathy and cultural reciprocity for effective and innovative designs, and curriculum and pedagogical development applying critical and creative design to develop positive self-beliefs, resiliency, self-regulation, critical thinking, a growth mindset, and effective collaborations in multi-cultural contexts.
USF is an Equal Opportunity/ Equal Access/ Affirmative Action Institution. Please notify USF CONNECT, 3802 Spectrum Blvd., Suite 100, Tampa, FL, 33612, call 813-974-1082, or email [email protected], a minimum of five (5) working days in advance, if an accommodation for a disability is required.Disclaimer: The University of South Florida and USF Research Foundation, Inc. are committed to the free exchange of ideas, reasoned debate and intellectual dialogue. Speakers and scholars with a diversity of opinions, perspectives and professional experiences are invited to the campus to provide the community with important or differing points of view, some of which may be deemed controversial. The views, opinions and conclusions of those invited to speak on the campus do not necessarily reflect the views of the university administration or any other segment of the university community. Nor are those invited to speak on campus necessarily authorized agents or representatives of the University or Research Foundation. The use of University or Research Foundation facilities for an event or presentation does not constitute an endorsement by the University or Research Foundation of the views, opinions and conclusions of those invited to speak.
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USF CONNECT is the business and economic development initiative of the University of South Florida (USF) that provides support for technology start-ups and serves as the point of entry for companies looking to do business with USF.
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