Learn battle-tested recipes, techniques, and validation patterns for stress-testing early stage business models.
"This workshop helped me to better understand how to leverage the lean canvas tool and continuous innovation framework to support entrepreneurs in our community."
This workshop is designed for educators, mentors, and consultants who want to level up their coaching meta-skills.
We go beyond the principles of the Continuous Innovation Framework and teach you tactical techniques and common patterns you can use for coaching teams. These were developed through thousands of coaching hours.
You'll learn battle-tested patterns and coaching systems for putting the Continuous Innovation Framework to practice at various stages of the innovation funnel whether at a startup accelerator, corporate innovation lab, or a university classroom.
The biggest obstacle to getting entrepreneurs to practice continuous innovation is overcoming old habits. You’ll learn how to create transformations by working from the inside out — starting with mindset shifts, then teaching skills, and finally delivering business model outcomes using our playbooks.
"Even though I have read both his books, having the opportunity to interact with Ash and learn from him directly, made the 4-days totally worth it."
Ash Maurya is the author of two bestselling books Running Lean and Scaling Lean, and is also the creator of the highly popular one-page business modeling tool “Lean Canvas”.
Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Business Modeling, and Bootstrapping techniques.
"Ash has a special gift of breaking down complex issues and making them accessible and understandable to all of us."
The workshop is run over 4 half days of lectures, interactive Q&A, and hands-on practice.
Day 1 - The Coaching Lean Meta-process8:30 - 9:45a - The Continuous Innovation Framework
Learn the mindsets, models, and playbooks for building a stage-based innovation funnel.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Coaching Meta-skills
Learn how to instill new mindsets and habits in teams.
11:30 - 12:30p - Lean Canvas
Capture an idea on a 1-page Lean Canvas.
Day 2 - Idea Deconstruction
8:30 - 9:45a - The Lean Canvas Diagnostic
Learn how to diagnose and baseline an idea using a Lean Canvas.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Desirability Stress-testing
Learn how to stress test customer, problem, and solution assumptions.
11:30 - 12:30p - Business Model Validation Patterns
A pattern approach to validation.
Day 3 - Idea Sizing
8:30 - 9:45a - Viability Stress-testing
Check the viability of an idea using a Fermi estimate.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Feasibility Stress-testing
Check the feasilbity of the idea using a traction roadmap.
11:30 - 12:30p - Rollout Planning
Create a now, next, later plan.
Day 4 - Problem/Solution Fit Overview
8:30 - 9:45a - Problem Discovery
Understand customers better than they do.
9:45 - 10:00a- Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Solution Design
Design a solution for switch.
11:30 - 12:30p - Mafia Offer Delivery
Make them an offer they cannot refuse.
This workshop is delivered over 4 half-days and tuition is USD $2,500.
Educators (must teach at an accredited institution) and non-profits qualify for a 40% discount and pay a tuition of USD $1,500 .
