Civic Leadership and Design Thinking Workshop

Want to change the world around you and develop design thinking skills? Sign up and learn how you can action social change! 

An interactive session held in-person at the UTS Campus and is open to all UTS students. You will earn 10 elective points if you are a BUILD member. 

For additional dates and alternate mode of delivery (online) workshops, please visit the BUILD Upcoming Events Careerhub page. 

This workshop topic complements the BUILD Core Introduction to Leadership workshop, however, you may do the workshops in any order to suit your schedule.

Making a difference in the lives of our local community and the world beyond is easier with a toolkit of appropriate skills. Join this interactive Civic Leadership Workshop and combine your passion to change your world with these new skills, networking with other like-minded students in the process.

The Civic Leadership and Design Thinking workshop will enable you to explore social issues you care about from the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. You will learn about inspiring social enterprises and be able to identify what type of ‘Changemaker’ you are. 

You will work in groups to learn design thinking skills that will help you action your social change ideas, develop and practice key employability skills, such as creativity, communication and teamwork. The workshop will conclude with your team pitching your social change idea.

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About Franked.io

Franked.io is an education company that truly cares about the world and are passionate enough to make a positive difference by working with you to help you create an amazing life (and career!). Franked.io delivers face-to-face and virtual training in leadership, employability and entrepreneurship around Australia and internationally. Franked.io has been recognised by the Australian Financial Review's Excellence in Higher Education Award for Employability and the PIEoneer Awards as a finalist for the Employability International Impact Award.

About your host UTS BUILD

  • This event is hosted by UTS BUILD (Beyond UTS International Leadership Development). BUILD is an extra-curricular global leadership program with a mission to develop self-aware, informed and active global citizens and leaders in service to deliver positive social impact in the world.
  • This event supports BUILD’s values of Leadership, Global Citizenship, Empowerment, Social and Environmental Sustainability.
  • Find out more about UTS BUILD and consider joining - http://bit.ly/JoinUTSBUILD. If you are a Study Abroad and exchange Student you can also join BUILD by clicking - https://bit.ly/BUILDSAEX
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Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.