Today’s world of established industries is being disrupted to its core. To maintain effective leadership in a continuously disrupted world, you need to adopt an innovator’s mindset fuelled by design thinking. The Dubai Business Women Council hosted an experiential workshop for its members on November 14 that explored the basics of design thinking and enabled DBWC members to practice innovation through a classic design thinking exercises.

This exclusive workshop was facilitated by Dr. Imad Hoballah who is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the American University in Dubai (AUD) and Dr. Sunitha Kshatriya, Manager of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at American University in Dubai.

This session triggered discussions around the design thinking way of work and helped DBWC members understand how they can transform themselves to maintain leadership and sustain growth, distinctiveness, and competitive advantage in an environment of uncertainty and disruption.

The DBWC members learned:

• To Explore the basics of design thinking
• Go through the five stages of design thinking
• Tools to adapt an innovator’s mindset
• Self-and leadership transformation through applying design thinking

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