Funovation: injecting fun, sparking change a playful path to success
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Customer Experience Room: Matiu
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
Breakout Room Matiu |
Overview
Clare Swallow, Mulberry Street
Speaker
Clare Swallow
Mulberry Street
Funovation: injecting fun, sparking change: A playful path to success
Abstract
In today's fast-evolving landscape, council organisations grapple with unprecedented change, requiring us to be more creative in our approach. The catalyst for creativity often lies in human connection. Prioritising these connections enables risk-taking, idea expression, and a culture of testing and learning rather than fixating on immediate perfection.
Welcome to this quick-fire 'Funovation' workshop! Through interactive activities, we'll foster connections and collaboration, aiming to unleash the power of creativity in addressing. Participants will experience first-hand how a playful, collaborative environment ignites innovative thinking—the thinking we will need to cope with the change coming our way.
Welcome to this quick-fire 'Funovation' workshop! Through interactive activities, we'll foster connections and collaboration, aiming to unleash the power of creativity in addressing. Participants will experience first-hand how a playful, collaborative environment ignites innovative thinking—the thinking we will need to cope with the change coming our way.
Biography
Once a shareholder and General Manager in a growing tech consultancy, Clare had an epiphany at 4 a.m. With two toddlers, a hefty mortgage, and no clear plan of attack, she quit her job to start Mulberry St. Now, five years on, Clare helps organisations take a human-centred approach to change, empowering diverse industries from tech startups to government bodies with a people-first mindset. Alongside this, Clare is an Executive Fellow at the University of Waikato, teaching Design Thinking on the MBA programme, and serves on multiple boards, and burns the midnight oil deciphering parenting blogs in an attempt to understand her two children.