UW107
Redesigning Innovation: Creating the Future of Work
Faculty
Kristian Orozco
Founder and Director, The Academy at Naked Innovations
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
This immersive course invites students to radically rethink innovation as a deeply human and collaborative endeavour. Working as members of cross-functional teams within a dynamic scale-up environment, students confront real innovation and collaboration challenges. Centred on relational skills, they build shared commitments, design daily practices, and learn to navigate disruptions. A mid-course training lab develops deeper interpersonal capabilities.
The Design Thinking framework is introduced early on as a practical tool to guide innovation projects. Through continuous reflection and iterative application, teams evolve relational innovation practices that deliver tangible project outcomes while mastering trust, coordination, and collaborative leadership. Graduates gain practical tools to transform how innovation unfolds in contemporary workplaces, including start-ups and scaling ventures.
Learning highlights
- See innovation work as deeply human, inclusive, and relational.
- Create, manage, and renew shared commitments collaboratively.
- Develop and practice relational innovation capabilities essential for teamwork.
- Design and embed team rituals and coordination practices that sustain collaboration.
- Navigate disruption and conflict through realistic simulations.
- Reflect continuously and iterate on relational and project practices.
- Use Design Thinking for project ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Kickoff & Team Formation: Team charters, commitment cycle, innovation meaning.
Session 2
Shared Commitments & 6 Cs of Co-Creation: Co-create commitments, trust-building exercises.
Session 3
Introduction to Design Thinking & Team Practices: Design Thinking phases, rituals, meeting structures.
Session 4
Cross-Team Coordination: Dependency mapping, collaboration simulation.
Session 5
Navigating Challenges & Preparing for Lab: Reflection on relational blocks.
Session 6
Capability Lab: Skills workshop on perspective, systems, resilience.
Session 7
Applying New Skills, Revising Commitments & Design Thinking Iteration: Renew commitments, iterate solutions.
Session 8
Facilitation Lab & Managing Disruption: Facilitation, handling mole disruptions.
Session 9
Midpoint Review & Peer Feedback: Progress check on relational and project goals.
Session 10
Systems Thinking & Commitment Repair: Diagnose team system issues, design repair rituals.
Session 11
Embedding Innovation Practices: Deepen rituals and accountability.
Session 12
Agile Execution & Adaptive Leadership: Adjust project and practices dynamically.
Session 13
Final Deliverable Preparation: Consolidate work, refine relational insights.
Session 14
Presentation Rehearsal & Feedback: Practice, peer review.
Session 15
Final Presentation & Retrospective: Deliverables + relational growth reflection.
Prerequisites
No formal prerequisitesю
Recommended interest in innovation, collaboration, or organisational change.
Methodology
The course consists of 15 sessions of three hours each, blending active teamwork, facilitation labs, disruption simulations, reflection, peer coaching, capability training, and Design Thinking workshops. Students work in cross-functional teams modelled on scale-up environments, practising relational skills, commitment management, and Design Thinking to deliver a real project for a simulated organisation.
Grading
Kristian is dedicated to shaping the future of work by redefining innovation and leadership through strategic human-centered approaches that cultivate inclusive, resilient, and adaptable environments.
As creator of the Relational Innovation Framework, he has developed a practical, relational approach that helps people and organizations collaborate more effectively by building stronger connections, enabling distributed leadership, establishing clear commitments, and fostering shared ownership across diverse teams and networks.
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Redesigning Innovation: Creating the Future of Work
by Kristian Orozco
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Feb 02 - Feb 20, 2026
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
This depends on your case. Please check with the Spanish or Thai consulate in your country of residence about visa requirements. We will do our part to provide you with the necessary documents, such as the Certificate of Enrollment.
Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.