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Join our monthly innovation event!
Project TBD (Transformation By Design) is a monthly event series in which we explore how Human-Centered Design can drive business, civic, and social innovation. The sessions are typically a mix of brief presentations and/or discussions with innovation practitioners followed by small group conversations. Launched in 2023 to replace Forward Faster, which ran for seven years, Project TBD provides a forum where people from various backgrounds "collide and connect" with others who share an interest in innovation, creative problem-solving, and design. If this sounds like your kind of tribe, make plans to join us at an upcoming event.
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The Case for Curiosity: How Scout Mindset Fuels Innovation
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Caldwell Hope Hall
1609 E. 5th St.
Charlotte, NC 28204
8:00 AM - Doors Open
8:30 AM - Program Begins
9:30 AM - Program Ends
$20 - General Admission
$10 - Education Professional
$10 - Government Professional
$10 - Non-Profit Professional
How do Soldiers and Scouts see the world differently? What can author Michael Lewis teach us about the connection between curiosity and innovation? And how in the heck are we going to work a Ted Lasso reference into this event?
Join us on March 24th at the new Caldwell Hope Hall in Elizabeth for the kickoff of Project TBD (Transformation By Design). Formerly known as Forward Faster, this is a monthly event series in which we explore how the principles and practices of Human-Centered Design can drive business, civic, and social innovation.
In this session, we'll unpack how motivated reasoning can influence how we react to information that contradicts what we believe is true. This, in turn, impacts if and how we innovate. We'll also look at techniques we can use to help ourselves (and others) overcome this cognitive bias to unleash our curiosity on our biggest challenges and opportunities.
As Mark Twain wrote*, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
*Or did he?

Data Delusions: How Math, Metrics, and Analytics Can Mislead Us
Friday, April 21st, 2023
Kingsmen Software
1801 N. Graham St.
Suite 310
Charlotte, NC 28206
8:00 AM - Doors Open
8:30 AM - Program Begins
9:30 AM - Program Ends
In the age of Big Data, we rightly understand that meaningful insights can be derived from metrics and analytics. However, like any other strength, we can, and often do, overplay our reliance on data, sometimes with tragic consequences. In this session of Project TBD, we’ll explore how we might help our organizations and our clients find the balance between data, metrics, and human-centered design.
$20 - General Admission
$10 - Education Professional
$10 - Government Professional
$10 - Non-Profit Professional