Entrepreneurship and Finance and economics

Innovation Leadership

Large companies are increasingly adopting start-up practices to transform their leadership culture, fostering greater agility, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit by empowering their people. The Innovation Leadership online course provides a unique look into the mindset and key concepts behind effective innovation leadership.

Price

350€

Workload

Up to 12 Hours

Type

Self-paced online

Languages

English

Instructor
  • Avatar of Fabian Sepulveda
    Fabian Sepulveda


    Dr. Fabian Sepulveda is a Senior Advisor at Aalto EE.

    Sepulveda has more than 20 years of experience in engineering, management consulting, and investment banking.

    Fabian Sepulveda has been actively involved in Finland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur, startup coach, Lean Launchpad® trainer, Business Angel, and Venture Capitalist. He has co-founded three companies: eyescubed (automotive technology), Courage Ventures Consulting (Entrepreneurial Training), and Courage Ventures Funds, a Venture Capital firm investing in Health, Education, and Environment verticals.

    Fabian has a BSc in Electrical Engineering, an MSc. in Finance, and a PhD in International Business (Entrepreneurship).

Learning Outcomes

By participating in the course, you will learn the essential tools and frameworks used by start-ups and corporates. These tools empower internal innovators to systematically explore new ideas, opportunities, and innovations, which also helps hold them accountable for getting results.

In this course you will: 


Learn how to introduce start-up practices for adoption within your non-start-up organization

Understand the tools used by start-ups to structure and systematize the search for a repeatable and scalable business model for innovation

Receive the tools and learn the frameworks to promote change within your organization

Strengthen your ability to adopt an Innovation Leadership mindset


Gain an understanding of different approaches and change processes

Contents and Schedule

The course includes 12 video lectures with online exercises and challenges to check your understanding of each module.

The estimated study time of the course is 15 hours. The course allows flexible study patterns; you can decide on your schedule and the speed of your progress. The recommended study schedule is 2-3 hours per week for 4-5 weeks.

The course videos are subtitled in English.

Module 1:

Why Start-ups?

Module 2: 

Lean start-ups Tools & Practices

Module 3: 

Adopting Start-up Practices

Closing Module

For

The course is designed for business leaders and executives to empower and motivate them to explore innovations with Lean Start-up tools and methodologies to begin to use immediately in their organizations.

With incremental and contextualized adoption of the practices in this workshop, participants can be well on their way to helping transform their organizations into Innovation Leaders.