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  • Online: 21st August
  • Interactive Course Over Zoom

About This Course

Unlock the Innovation Blueprint that Drives Sustainable Growth


If growth is the goal, innovation is the accelerator.

In a world of constant disruption, innovation is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a necessity. This powerful one-day masterclass redefines innovation not as random creativity, but as a structured, customer-centric, and experimentation-driven process that drives measurable business outcomes.

Led by Daniel San Martin, APAC Clients & Growth and former Head of Innovation NSW at Aurecon, this session brings to life proprietary tools and real-world frameworks blended in a truly unique approach not available in any other training course.

This is your opportunity to gain exclusive access to proven innovation practices that empower your team to rapidly absorb change, build bold solutions, and scale strategies that deliver long-term success. You’ll walk away with practical approaches to embed innovation deep into the DNA of your organisation — from mindset to execution.

Whether you lead projects, design strategy, or are responsible for transformation, this course equips you to lead with purpose, create with confidence, and deliver with impact.

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Your Amazing Facilitator


Daniel San Martin APAC CLIENTS & GROWTH – AURECON

Daniel is a strategist, transformation architect, and human-centred innovation expert with a passion for unlocking people’s potential to think boldly and act practically. With a background in engineering and design thinking, he has advised leaders and teams across sectors on how to shape and deliver business transformation.

From global enterprises to ambitious start-ups, Daniel has helped organisations turn strategy into action through creativity, clarity, and experimentation. Known for his engaging delivery and practical frameworks, he equips teams with the tools to not just talk innovation — but do it.


Full Day Agenda

Strategic Innovation for Growth Masterclass

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One Day Masterclass Agenda

 

8:30AM: REGISTRATION | 9:00AM: START

 

TOPIC 1: Designing Your Innovation Culture


• Understanding the three key growth challenges and why each matters
• Diagnosing and shifting your innovation team’s impact
• Understanding the role of leadership in embedding experimentation
• Assessing where your culture is enabling or blocking new ideas
• Interactive Exercise: Complete an “Innovation Culture Diagnostic” and sketch your first action steps

 

TOPIC 2: Strategic Innovation as a Growth Engine


• Understanding why Desirability, Feasibility and Viability alone won’t drive systematic growth
• Linking innovation directly into your business model to drive growth
• Spotting opportunities across offerings, processes and experiences
• Prioritising bets based on your organisation’s unique capabilities
• Interactive Exercise: Map innovation opportunities onto your Business Model Canvas

 

TOPIC 3: Embedding Innovation into the Organisation


• Structuring a rollout plan that balances speed, scale and risk
• Uncovering and aligning internal and external influencers on your change journey
• Choosing buyer, user or leadership maps to visualise “before” and “after” change pathways
• Designing low-cost, rapid tests to de-risk your most critical assumptions
• Interactive Exercise: Uncover your key stakeholder value drivers and draft a mini-experiment plan for your highest-impact assumption

 

TOPIC 4: Leading Innovation


• Designing the right team structure to start or evolve your innovation efforts
• Defining roles, skilling gaps and collaboration models that keep momentum high
• Embedding the virtuous loop of people → business → process → structure for continuous evolution
• Translating insights into a concrete roadmap
• Interactive Exercise: Sketch your personal Innovation Action Plan

 

3:30 PM: WRAP-UP AND FINAL Q&A | 4:00 PM: CLOSE

 

For the in-person training courses, lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided for all attendees. Morning tea will be at 10:30 am, lunch will be at 12:30 pm afternoon tea will be at 3:30 pm.

Please let The Leadership Institute know if you have any dietary requirements a minimum of 5 working days before the event.


Key Benefits of Attending

  • Learn how to embed innovation into your business model for sustainable growth
  • Cultivate a culture of experimentation, creativity, and continuous improvement
  • Master practical tools for ideation, rapid prototyping, and hypothesis testing
  • Learn to navigate uncertainty and make decisions with limited data
  • Discover how to identify, evaluate, and scale winning ideas

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
  • Heads of Innovation
  • Heads of Strategy
  • Heads of Transformation
  • General Managers
  • Program and Project Managers
  • Change Managers
  • Product Owners
  • Heads of Customer Experience
  • Design Thinking Leads
  • Operations Managers
  • Business Development Leaders
  • C-suite Executives

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F-magazine celebrates Australian female success across ages, industries, and lifestyles.

Launched on International Women’s Day 2018, the online magazine – www.f-magazine.online – is supported by a weekly e-newsletter, emailed to 26,000 plus readers each Monday. F-magazine is published by Queensland Magazines, which has three print plus online publications, INDULGE eat. live. play, The West End Magazine, HIGHLIFE Downs Living and The Prestige Property Magazine online.

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F-magazine celebrates Australian female success across ages, industries, and lifestyles.

Launched on International Women’s Day 2018, the online magazine – www.f-magazine.online – is supported by a weekly e-newsletter, emailed to 26,000 plus readers each Monday. F-magazine is published by Queensland Magazines, which has three print plus online publications, INDULGE eat. live. play, The West End Magazine, HIGHLIFE Downs Living and The Prestige Property Magazine online.

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F-magazine

F-magazine celebrates Australian female success across ages, industries, and lifestyles.

Launched on International Women’s Day 2018, the online magazine – www.f-magazine.online – is supported by a weekly e-newsletter, emailed to 26,000 plus readers each Monday. F-magazine is published by Queensland Magazines, which has three print plus online publications, INDULGE eat. live. play, The West End Magazine, HIGHLIFE Downs Living and The Prestige Property Magazine online.

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F-magazine

F-magazine celebrates Australian female success across ages, industries, and lifestyles.

Launched on International Women’s Day 2018, the online magazine – www.f-magazine.online – is supported by a weekly e-newsletter, emailed to 26,000 plus readers each Monday. F-magazine is published by Queensland Magazines, which has three print plus online publications, INDULGE eat. live. play, The West End Magazine, HIGHLIFE Downs Living and The Prestige Property Magazine online.

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