Join Shared Spaces, an unique experience designed to fuel creativity and inspire innovation opportunities with a clear path to action by looking across different industries and creating in the overlaps.

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Interactive
experience.

Shared Spaces is an interactive journey that brings together leaders from the industrial, healthcare, and mobility sectors. As a member, each month you will gain insight on the trends and innovations that are contributing to the evolution of these spaces. As you gain more perspective and expand your knowledge, you’ll start to connect the dots between these spaces and ideas will emerge that you can co-collaborate on.

How it works

1. Inspiration

Begin your four month journey by looking outside your industry and exploring the trends and innovations driving change in the industrial, healthcare, and mobility spaces.

Engage with 30 cross-functional leaders through interactive whiteboards and virtual meetings as we guide you through the latest trend reports in each of these spaces.

2. Ideation

As you expose yourself to what is happening in different spaces, ideas for innovation will start to emerge. As ideas are curated and evolve, they will be captured in our virtual whiteboard experience.

We’ll focus on new ideas in overlapping spaces and think about how the changes in one space impact another.

3. Action

At the end of your journey, you’ll have the opportunity to express interest in a project. Actions on ideas is where real innovation happens.

Projects can take the form of co-development with other cohort members or your own internal innovation project.

Program Schedule

Why Join?

Investment vs. Value

Investing in Shared Spaces requires relatively low amounts of both time and monetary value, but the potential rewards are limitless. There is no limit to what ideas and inspiration this may spark for you or your team.

Idea Generation → Action

Shared Spaces is more than just exploring other industries. It provides a clear path to inspiration, idea generation, and action.

Grow your Network

Building relationships with leaders in different sectors can be a valuable experience that not only broadens your network but also helps you grow as a person.

Industry insights unleashed. 

The industry reports were created in partnership with Ebco Trends, a trend-powered innovation firm. They are insightful, inspiring, and value-packed reports ranging from 60-70 pages long.

The reports will be presented during the cohort meetings to fuel the conversation on how trends are impacting each industry and the ways these industries will evolve in the next 3-5 years. Each cohort member will receive a copy of the industry report after each session.

Each report will follow this format:
– Why this industry matters
– Future of industry (the next 3-5 years)
– Micro-trends within this industry
– Intersection Influences
– Interactive Conversation | Breakouts

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As a member
you will…

+ what to expect from Shared Spaces

01

Attend monthly virtual meetings

These 90-minute meetings will be facilitated by Twisthink who will present the trend reports and provide opportunities for discussion.

02

Receive a copy of each trend report

Upon conclusion of each meeting, cohort members will receive a copy of the industrial, healthcare, and mobility trend reports.

03

Engage in offline touch points

In between meetings, members will receive prompts in the form of ThoughtSparks and Mindsets to keep minds fresh and mining for insights.

04

Gain access to the community

After cohort completion, members will gain access to the Community, which will serve as a platform to collaborate and solve cross-industry problems.

Shared Spaces provides a collaborative, affordable, and actionable experience at a similar investment to a conference.

Apply to Shared Spaces
This program is unique because it aims to create a collaborative environment across industries without the constraints of conventional innovation programs.

Positively
quotable.

“As business scrambles to recover from the pandemic, I’ve seen one famous piece of advice doing the rounds: managers are told to look to other industries for fresh ideas.”

– Harvard Business Review

Have
Questions?

We understand this is a 4-month commitment to a new program and you may have hesitations. But we don’t want you to miss out on this opportunity. Check out our FAQ’s for more information. Don’t see the information you need? Submit a question of your own.

Join us on Thursday, June 22 to celebrate the grand opening of our new headquarters on the 6th floor of the Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building, located in the heart of the Grand Rapids Innovation Park on medical mile.

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