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Senior Innovation Facilitator

Use your presentation and platform skills to manage and deliver innovation training for an organization setting the standard in innovation research and training.

The Company:

futurethink is empowering organizations and their employees with the skills and knowledge necessary to accelerate change, drive growth, and solve the big problems better.

The Culture:

Fun, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and results driven.  Working at futurethink is a front-row seat to the most exciting developments in business, education, and the world in general. 

The Opportunity:

Reporting to and working directly with the CEO, the Senior Innovation Facilitator is responsible for designing and delivering effective training solutions for a wide range of audience types (executive level to sales to scientists).   Utilizing the latest techniques in active learning and adult business education, the Senior Trainer and Facilitator will oversee the course development experience, taking existing course material and developing new content to create both short (90 minute) and muti-day interactive sessions that achieve measureable training results for futurethink’s innovation clients:

  • Uses sound Instructional Design methodology to create course content (including e-learning courseware, software simulations and blended learning);
  • Collaborates with Subject Matter Experts to design courses for effectiveness; ensures objectives are clear and promotes solid course design;
  • Facilitates training sessions, identifying problems and effective solutions that achieve results;
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of courses and continuously improves methods to increase effectiveness;
  • Provides business analysis by monitoring trends in the business and recommending solutions to help meet business training objectives;

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years experience in a training development, instructional design and/or teaching position;
  • 5+ years experience in team facilitation;
  • Demonstrated understanding and application of performance- based training and development techniques for adult learners – theory, curriculum design/development, delivery methods, training technology, and evaluation;
  • Strong technical expertise in course development, assessments and eLearning tools;
  • Skilled at facilitation, consensus building and/or conflict resolution and influencing stakeholders to bring project to completion;   
  • Well versed in range of cognitive learning styles;
  • Expert at creating interactive activities to drive home learning goals;
  • Energetic and able to invoke trust.

Candidates with experience teaching leadership, innovation or creativity related topics are preferred.

Interested? Here's the next step:

Please introduce yourself by emailing your resume and cover letter (including salary history to): jcoutros@futurethink.com

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Client Quotes

  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “The futurethink workshop not only provided an incredible jolt of energy to our collective innovation efforts and established the common understanding of innovation concepts, but it was also a wonderful team-building event. I don’t think it could have been organized and conducted any better.”
    Michael Ripa, Manager, FRI Infomatics
  • “futurethink made the topic of innovation, which means different things to different people, real, meaningful, and actionable.”
    Steven Rubinow, Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Logo
  • “futurethink's sessions included excellent examples and energizing exercises that brought innovation to life. They got us to look at our business with new eyes.”
    Joan P. Lawrence-Ross, Chief Learning Officer, AXA
  • “Innovation is deliberate, if done well. There is a science and process to it. futurethink has done their homework to provide a wealth of practical knowledge to their customers.”
    Senior Vice President of Innovation, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo
  • “futurethink's research and 'how-to' tools have been essential to building our innovation program.”
    Cindy Morgan, Innovation Manager, New England Federal Credit Union New England Federal Credit Union
  • “futurethink is the innovation expert. They fine-tune their training to our clients' needs. I'm constantly looking for new opportunities to engage them in our work.”
    Brian Weberg, Director, National Conference of State Legislatures
  • “futurethink is enabling us to build critical innovation skills and share best practices across our global organization.”
    Jeff Honious, Vice President of Innovation, Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier
  • “If you don't innovate, be creative and look to the future and the possibilities of what will evolve over time, you will cease to be relevant.”
    Randy Voss, Senior Manager, Global Strategy & Business Development, Whirlpool Whirlpool
  • “futurethink is always thinking ahead about learning and 'innovate' it before we ask! Their programs have been a huge success with our teams.”
    Director of Learning & Development, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Sonovian Pharmaceuticals
  • “Any innovative company must develop processes for understanding and responding to consumer needs in a very focused way. Otherwise, they're just inventors, they're not necessarily innovators.”
    Tony Tomazic, Director of Consumer Innovations, Humana Humana
  • “Working with futurethink was a very rewarding experience for our team. They brought a great combination of provocative outside ideas, market perspective and a program design that challenged us to think of our own business in more innovative ways.”
    Jim Daly, Vice President of Human Resources, Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's
  • “futurethink's proven methodology, research, and tools help ensure we're always ready to meet the evolving public service challenges of tomorrow.”
    Sandy Stosz, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard
  • “futurethink made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces innovation rather than fearing it.”
    Mary Fennoglio, Managing Director, Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank Citigroup
  • “If you don't make innovation a strategic part of your business plan and you don't drive that into the culture, I don't think you'll have a strong innovation pipeline.”
    Mark Hausfeld, Innovation Manager, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble
  • “The futurethink team did an outstanding job in designing and facilitating an innovation event for our senior leaders, many of who regarded this as the best innovation workshop that they had ever been a part of. I would recommend futurethink to any organization that is looking for clear and actionable pathways to Innovation.”
    Wayne Pethrick, Director, Marketing and Consumer Insights, Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes