INNOVATION
INTENSIVES

  • Unpack

    Use our tools, methods and practice to unpack complex problems, gaining keen insight into your possibilities.

  • Regroup

    Go through a "rinse and repeat" iterative practice of innovation that helps you choose and develop ideas that are worth doing.

  • Launch

    To move ahead, you need to know the next step—then take it. We make sure everything's good to go.

  • Unpack

    Use our tools, methods and practice to unpack complex problems, gaining keen insight into your possibilities.

  • Regroup

    Go through a "rinse and repeat" iterative practice of innovation that helps you choose and develop ideas that are worth doing.

  • Launch

    To move ahead, you need to know the next step—then take it. We make sure everything's good to go.

The ever-overflowing inbox, maxed-out calendar and never-ending to-do list…where can you find the time, let alone the creative energy, to tackle the really important stuff? The big picture challenges, changing market forces, shifting tastes and structural upheavals that will determine whether or not your products and services remain relevant, competitive and successful? Innovation Intensives provide the time, space, inspiration and advanced techniques necessary for busy executive leaders, entrepreneurs and aspiring food industry innovators to step out of the day-to-day grind and into a focused process of creative problem-solving, innovation and strategizing.

Staged at incredible locations throughout the Bay Area, you and your team spend three full, uninterrupted days zeroed-in on the challenge at hand. Working under the guidance of experienced entrepreneurs, designers, chef-owners and faculty drawn from the nation’s top business schools, you get the know-how and hands-on skill to take hazy concepts to bright ideas to scalable, replicable initiatives.You leave invigorated, informed, inspired—with new insights, perspectives and plans to put into action come Monday.