Engage Your Team’s Creative Potential
Leveraging the creativity and innovation that exists in your organization.
Our Superpowers
At Innovation by Design LLC, our superpowers are empathy and creativity. We leverage empathy to gain a deep understanding of client needs and creativity to engineer impactful, unique solutions. Human creativity sets us apart from bots and automation. It’s the most urgently needed superpower in every industry today. Our utility belt includes powerful tools for innovation like Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, and emerging technologies. We work with your team to unleash their creative potential, focus and direct it with our natural ability to empathize with the needs of others to develop impactful solutions to problems at every scale. Let us help you create a culture of creative problem solving in your organization.
Our Services
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Training
Let us train your workforce on the use of Design Thinking or Systems Thinking to unleash its creativity and engender collaborative problem-solving. We also can “train the trainer” in order to build expertise within your organization for facilitating innovative practices.
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Facilitating
We will work with your team to leverage innovative practices such as Design Thinking and Systems Thinking for tackling challenges within your organization and for your clients. We can help you streamline your process, improve your client services, develop new products and more.
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Consulting
Looking to make significant changes within your organization or for your clients? We’ll work with you side-by-side over the long term to plan, implement, and sustain innovative improvements that empower your team and provide a competitive edge.
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Strategic Planning
Time to re-evaluate your priorities? We can work with you to apply our innovative methods for understanding the landscape and designing a plan that has full buy-in from your workforce.
Positive, inspirational engagement for your team.
Our Design Thinking and Systems Thinking training and facilitation are always 100 percent interactive, allowing your team to learn by doing. The interactions are intense, meaningful, and constructive, injecting positivity into relationships and empathy into your organizational culture while creating unique and impactful solutions for your clients. We will build a consulting team to match your unique needs.
Meet the Team
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Mr. Ken Baldauf
FOUNDER
Expertise in innovation frameworks, emerging tech, higher ed, and innovation spaces, with background in computer science, music, and publishing.
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Dr. Lisa Munson
CONSULTANT IN SOCIOLOGY
Expertise in social factors, organizational culture, equity, human behavior, education.
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Dr. Mark McNees
CONSULTANT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SUSTAINABILITY
Expertise in social entrepreneurship, commerce, innovation frameworks, and ESG strategies.
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Dr. Emily Pritchard
CONSULTANT IN HEALTH INNOVATION
Expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, organizational leadership.
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Dr. Darren Brooks
CONSULTANT IN BUSINESS HUMAN RESOURCES
Expertise in management, information technology, instructional design, performance management, and future of work.
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Mr. Mike Meth
CONSULTANT IN INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Expertise in library science, blockchain, publishing, innovation frameworks.
In-person or virtual!
Based in Florida’s capital city, our team is happy to provide you with a retreat from your usual workspace in our creative colab space, to meet you where you live and work, or facilitate remotely utilizing online collaborative tools.
Client Testimonials
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"Simply put, he delivered an interactive, fast-paced, high energy session that always left our participants wanting more!"
Randy Blass
Executive Director, Jim Moran Institute Advisory Board, FSU Senior Lecturer
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He brings a vast knowledge and experience of design thinking, strong skills as a facilitator, a capacity for seeing the big picture while still attending to details."
Nicole Boudreau
Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professional Studies, University of Maine at Fort Kent
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“Ken's thoughtfulness, conceptually and practically, at the intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship was invaluable in the strategic planning process.”
John Braunstein
Director, AKA|Strategy
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“On top of his deep and practical knowledge of design thinking, he captures the participants and retains their attention with his engaging personality. He has an enthusiastic and positive outlook, and he is good at organizing and bringing people together around innovation.”
Ursula El Hage
Director, Entrepreneurship Center, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
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Ken is very knowledgeable about the education space and has unique experience working in academia at the intersection of students, faculty, administration and the private sector stakeholders.
Marc Bolick
Managing Partner at DesignThinkers Group, USA
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Ken was terrific to work with, organized, focused and yet full of energy and ideas.
Gail Rubini
Professor Emertitus of Art and Design, Florida State University
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"Ken is a pleasure to work with - he is forward thinking and always looking for fresh perspectives. Ken possesses a unique blend of integrity, competence and common sense; a genuineness that he brings to any project."
Cecil Fricano
Sr. Strategic Relationship Manager, Harvard Business Publishing
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"Those sessions helped us drive innovation and encourage creativity in so many ways. I would highly recommend Ken for any type of engagement which can help an organization move forward."
Jonathan Fozard
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Florida State University
