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Geolab is recognized for our research-based innovation training, executive team coaching, and innovation strategy advisory. Read below to learn how we can help transform your work, through ours.

Innovation Training

In the Oscar-nominated film Stand And Deliver, Jaime Escalante teaches his inner-city high school students how to excel in calculus as a metaphor for success in life. He says, “Life is not about how many times you fall down. It’s about how many times you get back up.”

And the same is true in innovation, where falling down is your best lesson. In fact, you’re going to fall down more times than you would like. But you learn something new every time, and can move forward smarter. Frankly, if you aren’t falling often enough, you’re not learning fast enough.

Escalante tells his students, “You do not enter the future. You create the future.” It’s not a fait accompli. You have agency to shape it.

To help you create the future, we believe all leaders need to accelerate their innovation learning and open their organization’s internal lens to disruptive ideas, technologies and business models, or risk falling down, repeatedly. That’s where we believe mentorship, education, and training come in to play. To help you learn faster and avoid pitfalls.

The first step involves a reframing of what’s possible, which we introduce through a variety of leadership development training programs for boards of directors, CEOs and senior leaders, and team members throughout the organization.

Our High Impact Innovation Training (HIIT) sessions empower you to 1) to understand new disruptive technologies, 2) apply innovation strategies using the power of moonshot thinking, and 3) implement organizational design principles to harness radical adaptability and fast forward your future.

Exponential Team Coaching

When soccer powerhouse Argentina lost its first round match unexpectedly to Saudi Arabia in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the soccer world wondered whether this was the end of an era for its star and captain, Lionel Messi.

But rather than dwell on an early defeat, Messi rallied his team through an obstacle course of the world’s best teams and won the World Cup in the greatest finale every played. How did he do this?

As team captain, he set the tone on a few parameters key to team success: 1) Inclusion – making sure everyone felt like they belonged on the team; 2) Resilience – prioritizing down-time after matches to rest and recuperate; 3) Trust – dining collectively to reinforce personal relationships and camaraderie; and 4) Collaboration – breaking down buddy silos and partnering newer teammates with more experienced team mentors.

Based on a decade of experience coaching business teams to exponential success, and our peer-reviewed research with Harvard, we believe every team can learn these leadership practices and perfect them to reach peak performance, whether you lead sports teams or business teams, remotely, hybrid or in-person.

At Geolab, we work with leaders to reassess assumptions about team productivity and success in this new world of work, and help them learn to let go of the old myths of work that no longer serve their organizations well in this post-pandemic economy.

We then practice new behavioral changes over a multi-month coaching engagement with the entire team to unblock roadblocks and silos, maximize asynchronous collaboration and hybrid workflows, improve engagement through deeper inclusion, and accelerate problem solving to becoming an exponential team.