Difusion of Innovative Ideas: Designing Initiatives that Work

Jane Lorand

Workshop Description:

Whether in business or community development, new ideas don’t always take off.  Or if they take off, then don’t have the stamina to withstand the crosswinds.  If we want to change the world with our ideas, we need to test them. 

In this workshop we’ll work on crafting effective opportunity statements and applying Diffusion theory/practice using systemic methods.

Contributor's Biography:

Jane Lorand is an entrepreneur, former tax attorney, co-founder of the GreenMBA, the first accredited MBA fully designed to reformulate how to do business sustainably.  She teaches Critical Thinking for Business Redesign and Diffusion of Innovation courses.  She is the  leader of the Fort Baker Leadership Summits to create a vision and guiding principles for a Sustainable Future for California.  She is an educator and has owned/managed an organic catering company while raising five children.  She is a student of Rudolf Steiner’s work and much of her work is based on his ideas.