The Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation (CISI) suite is an invigorating professional learning program that provides senior and emerging leaders with the skills to achieve collaborative impact and creative, sustainable growth.
Built to support today’s leaders to navigate complex, interconnected and rapidly changing problems, this is a cutting-edge learning program grounded in everyday practice.
Designed with progressive industry experts who recognise the power of social license, the program cultivates the future-focused leadership capabilities required to steer organisations and people to thrive through change from old to new, life-centred systems that will serve generations to come.
Bespoke workshops for organisations
TD School has developed a series of bespoke workshops for organisations that draw on the core CISI principles.
There are five half-day workshops available for dedicated enterprise cohorts.
Open Your Mind | Creative thinking — the path to innovation |
Reframing | Reframing challenges for new ways forward |
Unpacking Problems | Understanding and dealing with complex problems |
Futures Thinking | 3 horizons and mapping future pathways |
Collaborating | Catalysing new ways of working together |
Download CISI info pack for organisations (PDF 4.2mb)
Build a mindset for change
Drawing on systems thinking, creativity, cutting-edge insights from neuroscience and futures thinking, learners discover new ways to mobilise resilience and approach collective problem-solving.
This sets learners up to lead new directions for their organisations and catalyse a radical shift in practice.
Through the program, leaders develop the mindset required to imagine a values-led vision, to chart the course and steer people through uncertainty. They emerge confident to thrive in uncertainty, inspire others and spark vitality and innovation in their organisation.
Capabilities developed through CISI
Navigating complexity
- Encouraging others to embrace risk
- Using metaphor and scenarios to storytell
- Embracing vulnerability
- Creating space for diversity and plurality
Applying futures thinking
- Revealing paradoxes and navigating uncertainty
- Shaping and stimulating change
- Questioning assumptions to find new patterns
Growing networks and ecosystems
- Being reflexive, flexible and resilient
- Mapping layers, scenarios and horizons
- Inspiring future value-led change
- Growing agency through teams
- Growing innovation ecosystems of life-centred design
Catalysing creativity
- Harnessing creative intelligence
- Utilising play, curiosity and imagination
- Practising and encouraging curiosity
- Playing with novelty to expand possibilities
Evidence base
The program draws on cutting-edge knowledge and research from the fields of transdisciplinary practice, neuroscience, creative practice, pragmatism, futures thinking, complexity science, systems thinking, positive psychology, philosophy, life-centred design, networks and ecosystems, implementation science and economic models for inclusive wellbeing and sustainability.
Have questions or need help getting started
- Use our future students postgraduate enquiry form to submit an enquiry about future postgraduate study as a domestic student. Select ‘Transdisciplinary Innovation’ as your area of interest and specify that your preferred course is ‘Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation’.
- Contact us about our microcredentials, short courses and enterprise learning: td.learning@uts.edu.au