Transform your career with breakthrough innovation and design skills.
Transform your ability to create change, impact, and revenue.
Fluid Hive’s Breakthrough Innovation System delivers tools to guide you, a simple way to launch innovation projects, and a way to help people do their best work in less time.
It’s 1-2-3 easy:
#1 Breakthrough Innovation Tools
#2 Breakthrough Innovation Projects
#3 Breakthrough Innovation Workshops
Ready to drive innovation, achieve tangible results, and quickly experience success?
Start with Fluid Hive’s Breakthrough Innovation Tools today.
Step One — Order your tools. Each one shows you where to start, what to do, and how to do it. Sample tool:
What People Are Saying
Dawan opens possibilities with amazing questions, excellent facilitations, and thought-provoking tools. I love working with Dawan because he helps me imagine what might be possible.
Dawan, you covered a lot in a short time in Designing Engaging Workshops and I was amazed at how much you unpacked. Thanks again for your insights.
Dawan Stanford helped my Strategic Plan Steering Committee gel as a group and really focus on the outcomes they want from the plan. He was energizing, affirming and motivating every step of the way.
Our Breakthrough Innovation System helps you:
Become a leader who sees and resolves challenges that derail innovation projects.
Use a complete set of tools and design skills for launching more valuable innovation projects.
Build your expertise into our tools as you learn how and when to use them.
Lead people solving complex challenges.
Go from struggling to start to seeing a clear path to the results you need.
Develop a personal innovation system that grows with you.
Begin your innovation project, even when you don’t know where to start.
Work through innovation challenges that derail projects.
Get what you need to transform your career.
Fluid Hive helps you transform your career with breakthrough innovation.
Through carefully designed and engaging online resources, Dawan helps you lay the foundation for new ways of thinking and solving.
Our step-by-step learning and tools are crafted to elevate your success as a designer and innovator.
See how we help you sprint from learning to application.
Fluid Hive’s Breakthrough Innovation System gives you everything — everything you need to create more valuable projects, launch them and bring people together to solve them.
And we make it easier. Dawan was frustrated by excellent courses that left him to figure out how to apply everything.
So, he designed Fluid Hive Practice Tools as course resources for you. Each Practice Tool turns your step-by-step learning into step-by-step action.
Watch this video to see a few of the Fluid Hive Practice Tools and learn more about them from Dawan.
Expert Help When You Need It — Design Thinking 101 Podcast!
The Breakthrough Innovation System was influenced by Dawan’s 6 years of exploring design and innovation with the worlds greatest design leaders, innovators and thinkers.
Learn insights from people who have successfully built their design skills, launched many successful innovation projects, and led large and small innovation teams.
Each episode delves into different topics that connect back to creating services and solutions by thinking and solving like a designer.
Operational Excellence in Design + Leadership + Design Ops with John Fukuda — DT101 E144
Jon said that when he first discovered the design operations community at the 2019 Design Ops Summit in Brooklyn, it felt like coming home. Here was this entire tribe of people who cared about the same things he’d been passionate about for years—creating systems that...
Building Sustainable Research Systems in Organizations with Sam Zucker — DT101 E143
The tension between doing good research and delivering on tight timelines is something I've experienced throughout my career in design and innovation. This conversation with Sam Zucker unpacks powerful approaches to making research more sustainable and equitable while...
Architecture + Decision Design + Learning Spaces + Strategy with Adam Griff — DT101 E142
In this episode, I explore how architectural thinking enhances strategic decision-making with Adam Griff. Our conversation reveals how his architectural background shapes his approach to helping higher education institutions navigate complex decisions and create...
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Live, interactive, practical experiences led by Dr. Dawan Stanford.
Transform your career with breakthrough innovation skills.
Use Fluid Hive’s Breakthrough Innovation System to create change, impact or revenue in three steps.
#1 Breakthrough Innovation Tools, a guide that shows you where to start, what to do, and how to do it.
#2 Breakthrough Innovation Projects, an online course teaching you a simple way to launch innovation projects that get results.
#3 Breakthrough Innovation Workshops, an online course giving you the ability to help people do their best work in less time as you create new solutions.
Order Breakthrough Innovation Tools and take your first transformation step today!
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Dawan shares his ideas, methods, and frameworks paired with Fluid Hive’s question-fueled approach to learning to help you start thinking and solving in new and creative ways.
Your Ask Like a Designer Studio connects you with people interested in thinking and solving like a designer.
Enjoy invitations to free, live Studio events. Receive articles, Design Thinking 101 podcast updates, tips, tools, templates, workshop information, and more to help you create and perform!
Dawan Stanford, JD, PhD
President, Fluid Hive