Hands-on workshops for educators, mentors, and consultants.
"One of the best training I have been on in years."
"I feel like I got very raw and non-fluffy concepts, this one nailed it."
Most products fail not because entrepreneurs fail to build what they set out to build, but because they waste needless time, money, and effort building the wrong product. In other words, they build something nobody wants.
We call this the Innovator's Bias for their solution.
The challenge is that the Innovator's Bias is immune to lecture. So you can't simply tell people to act differently. You have to challenge their thinking and transform their current mindsets.
This is where coaches comes in.
The challenge to adoption isn't about just the merit of the framework or motivation of the teams, but overcoming old habits and new anxieties.
We see this all the time: Startups ask 10 advisors for advice and get 10 different answers.
That doesn't help them -- it creates needless chaos. This the Advisor Whiplash problem.
While there is a place for mentors, advisors, and domain experts, the earliest stage is riddled with extreme uncertainty and startups need more coaching versus advising.
The job of a coach isn’t giving entrepreneurs the right answers, but rather asking the right questions.
Rather than providing overly prescriptive tactics that have a limited expiration date, a coach should instead strong guide the strategy with time tested principles and a toolbox of business model design patterns.
That's what we teach you how to do in this workshop.
This is the Wrong Question. In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three — and possibly more.
The way you do that is by thinking in terms of a framework of frameworks.
While each of the frameworks above overlap, each has a specific superpower that tends to stands out above the others. The Continuous Innovation Framework is a curated collection of the best frameworks, methodologies, and tactics for building what customers want and achieving business model results.
Our Coach Marketplace Network is made up of practicing entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, educators, and mentors that span the globe.
That means we consult with many of the top universities, accelerators, and organizations around the world. To date, we have put over 1,000 teams through this program spanning over 20 countries. This is the learning flywheel that helps us continuously evolve our battle-tested playbooks.
Playbooks are curated step-by-step guides that teach key mindsets, strategies, and tools for going from idea to scale.
But that's not what makes us different. What sets us apart is that we are first and foremost practicing entrepreneurs.
The Continuous Innovation Framework was built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and it shows.
Entrepreneurship is like a martial art. You can't simply read or teach it, you have to live it. We practice what we teach and the more we coach, the more we learn and share, the better results everyone gets.
We certify only a select number of coaches each year.
A LEANSTACK Certified Coach can consult with individual businesses to help them implement Continuous Innovation principles and create an innovation process that works. LEANSTACK supports these Coaches with immersive hands-on training, a license to use our framework, and a coach marketplace network.
Here's an overview of the coach certification process:
The workshop is delivered over 4 half-days and tuition is USD $2,500.
Educators (must teach at an accredited institution) and non-profits qualify for a 40% discount and pay a tuition of USD $1,500 .
In the Coach Training Workshop, we go beyond the principles of the Continuous Innovation Framework and teach you tactical techniques and common patterns you can use for coaching teams. These were developed through thousands of coaching hours.
You'll learn battle-tested patterns and coaching systems for putting the Continuous Innovation Framework to practice at various stages of the innovation funnel whether at a startup accelerator, corporate innovation lab, or a university classroom.
The biggest obstacle to getting entrepreneurs to practice continuous innovation is overcoming old habits. You’ll learn how to create transformations by working from the inside out — starting with mindset shifts, then teaching skills, and finally delivering business model outcomes using our playbooks.
"Even though I have read both his books, having the opportunity to interact with Ash and learn from him directly, made the 4-days totally worth it."
Ash Maurya is the author of two bestselling books Running Lean and Scaling Lean, and is also the creator of the highly popular one-page business modeling tool “Lean Canvas”.
Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Business Modeling, and Bootstrapping techniques.
"Ash has a special gift of breaking down complex issues and making them accessible and understandable to all of us."
This workshop is designed for educators, mentors, and consultants who want to level up their coaching meta-skills.
We deliver our remote workshops over a Zoom meeting and use the breakout rooms feature for team activities. If you haven't experienced break out rooms, it's a killer feature.
We do two things.
Check out some video samples from past workshops:
3. Are there any downsides of remote vs. live?
Sure, we won't get to shake hands... but's that's probably a good thing for the time being :)
On the upside, because the workshop is delivered remotely, you don't need to travel or commute.
We also record these sessions, so you'll have a replay of the workshop that you can review even after the workshop.
The workshop is run over 4 half days of lectures, interactive Q&A, and hands-on practice.
Day 1 - The Continuous Innovation Framework8:30 - 9:45a - The Continuous Innovation Framework
Learn the mindsets, models, and playbooks for building a stage-based innovation funnel.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Coaching Meta-skills
Learn how to instill new mindsets and habits in teams.
11:30 - 12:30p - Lean Canvas
Capture an idea on a 1-page Lean Canvas.
Day 2 - Idea Deconstruction
8:30 - 9:45a - The Lean Canvas Diagnostic
Learn how to diagnose and baseline an idea using a Lean Canvas.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Desirability Stress-testing
Learn how to stress test customer, problem, and solution assumptions.
11:30 - 12:30p - Business Model Validation Patterns
A pattern approach to validation.
Day 3 - Idea Sizing
8:30 - 9:45a - Viability Stress-testing
Check the viability of an idea using a Fermi estimate.
9:45 - 10:00a - Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Feasibility Stress-testing
Check the feasilbity of the idea using a traction roadmap.
11:30 - 12:30p - Rollout Planning
Create a now, next, later plan.
Day 4 - Problem/Solution Fit
8:30 - 9:45a - Problem Discovery
Understand customers better than they do.
9:45 - 10:00a- Break
10:00 - 11:30a - Solution Design
Design a solution for switch.
11:30 - 12:30p - Mafia Offer Delivery
Make them an offer they cannot refuse.
"The Continuous Innovation Workshops helped me to better understand how to leverage the lean canvas tool and continuous innovation framework to support entrepreneurs in our community."
"Terrific course! Ash took so much time to answer questions thoroughly and the course had great information. I feel like I am so much more prepared to advise my student entrepreneurs. I learned so much more new information in this course such as the traction model. The traction modes is the part I have been missing when trying to advise my students."
"I feel a deeper understanding of the principles behind the concepts."
"Excitement, feeling more clarity as to how to approach some current projects."
"Awesome content. I use these tools and framework in all of my classes and incubators which is on the leading edge of entrepreneurship thought."
