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 Community of Practice
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Dave Viotti
Founder, CEO
Innovation Whisperer. Believes in the power of breaking big challenges down into smaller pieces and taking action (small bets) to achieve results quickly.
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Alice Chen
Producer, Innovation Leadership
Oracle of individual and team dynamics. Executive coach, leadership development strategist, designer and facilitator.
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Val Harding
Producer, Commercialization
Change agent. Customer focused. Expert in helping global companies develop, commercialize and scale breakthrough products.
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Kathia Laszlo
Producer, Systems Thinking & Being
Educator, researcher, coach, consultant, social entrepreneur, mother. Cares about our common future.
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David Styers
Producer, Executive Leadership
Cross-Sector Athlete. Passion for executive and civic engagement in leadership development.
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Megan Christenson
Producer, New Ventures
Maestro of early-stage ventures. Accelerator of for-profit and social enterprises for large-scale, sustainable impact.
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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.
