The Lab
The SMALLIFY Rapid Innovation Lab is innovation capacity building at speed. We’ve distilled the best of design thinking, lean start-up, business model generation, and entrepreneurial leadership into a few simple practices.
We offer 2-hour, half-, full- and multi-day versions of the SMALLIFY Rapid Innovation Lab. Every lab produces results (innovative product concepts), capacity building (innovation skills, tools and mindsets) and buy-in from stakeholder participants, who take ownership as co-creators. During every rapid innovation lab, participants create innovative concepts that they can start testing immediately with a goal of validating, iterating, and launching breakthrough solutions in months, rather than years.
SMALLIFY Inside™ is our innovation leadership and organizational development practice. We provide consulting, training, certification, and tools to embed rapid innovation practices “inside” an organization and develop innovation leaders.
Who can Smallify
We help companies, foundations, start-ups, governments, non-profits (large and small) and entrepreneurial leaders (K thru CEO) innovate and grow. From the White House to the Stanford d.school to your conference room to the Presidio, from retreats, offsites and board meetings to conferences and conventions, we smallify everywhere for groups of any size. We make it easy to bet small on us. All you need to get started is a challenge (product, service, internal process, organizational development, etc.) and a willingness to experiment. Here are a just few of the dozens of challenges we’ve smallified and sample partners across sectors and industries.
Fuse Corps
Unlocking ingenuity in cities and states
Stanford ChangeLabs
Transformation at Scale
The Civic Accelerator
Scaling the Lean Start-up
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Salesforce.com Foundation
Accelerating a Big Vision
The White House
Help Wanted: Cross-Sector Leaders.
Featured Partners
About
Our Point of View
We believe that small bets accelerate learning and lead to breakthrough solutions faster.
We believe innovation can be fast and that anyone can do it.
We believe your success hinges on your ability to do it yourself.
We want to show you how to do it.
The SMALLIFY Team
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Dave Viotti
Founder, CEO
Innovation Whisperer. Believes that everyone has creative potential.
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Taylor Cone
Producer, Rapid Innovation
Rapid(s) innovator. River Guide. Champion of humanity-centered design.
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Erin Liman
Producer, Breakthrough Solutions
Intrapreneurship coach. Transformation designer. Maestro of “lean”, design thinking, and “Agile.”
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Alice Chen
Producer, Innovation Coaching
Oracle of individual and team dynamics. Executive coach, leadership development strategist, designer and facilitator.
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Lisa Gans
Producer, Social Enterprise
Catalyst. Boundary Crosser. Believes empathy is the key to ingenious change.
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Kelly Chmielewski
Producer, Brand Innovation
Brand trail blazer. Catalyst for creativity. Champion for integrating exceptional branding, strategy and design.
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Chris Block
Producer, Innovation Networks
Curator of collaborative solutions. Passionate about helping leaders think expansively about the future and their power to create it.
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Carisa Speth
Producer, Results
People coordinator. Gets stuff done. Seamlessly drives scheduling and event logistics.
