Person + Press
Leadership Development
Equip Leaders to Foster Innovation at Scale
Build Creative Problem Solving capability, deepen understanding of thinking preferences, and develop skills to deliberately shape organizational climate. This is how you scale innovation beyond workshops or consultants.
How we design these engagements
Leadership Development at Renaissance Teams is not a course you enroll in. We work with your organization to design a multi-session program tailored to your goals, timeline, and team. Every engagement is built around real challenges and real people.
Learn
Master Creative Problem Solving methodology, understand thinking style differences, and learn climate diagnosis through expert instruction and real-world application.
Practice
Apply new skills to real organizational challenges. Facilitate sessions, design interventions, and build confidence through repeated practice.
Collaborate
Share work with peers, receive feedback, and build understanding through discussion with qualified facilitators and fellow participants.
Reflect
Make connections from content to your specific work context. Deepen self-awareness about your thinking processes and how to strengthen your impact.
Learn
Master Creative Problem Solving methodology, understand thinking style differences, and learn climate diagnosis through expert instruction and real-world application.
Practice
Apply new skills to real organizational challenges. Facilitate sessions, design interventions, and build confidence through repeated practice.
Collaborate
Share work with peers, receive feedback, and build understanding through discussion with qualified facilitators and fellow participants.
Reflect
Make connections from content to your specific work context. Deepen self-awareness about your thinking processes and how to strengthen your impact.
Integrated Capability Areas
Four Domains of innovation leadership
Each addresses a different dimension of the 4 P's framework, building on the others for comprehensive innovation leadership capability.
Person dimension
Thinking Styles & Cognitive Diversity
Understand your personal thinking and creative style through four research-validated assessments. Learn why diverse thinking styles strengthen teams and how to leverage cognitive diversity in practice.
Outcome: Recognize thinking style differences and avoid assuming everyone approaches problems like you do.
Process Dimension
Creative Problem Solving Facilitation
Master the four CPS stages with specific tools and techniques. Learn when to use divergent versus convergent thinking and how to manage group dynamics through complex challenges.
Outcome: Facilitate Innovation Workshops independently, guiding teams without external support.
Press Dimension
Climate Diagnosis & Improvement
Learn the nine climate dimensions that enable or inhibit innovation. Develop skills to recognize climate patterns, understand the link between leadership behavior and environment, and design targeted interventions.
Outcome: Recognize when climate is helping or hindering innovation and take targeted action to strengthen it..
Product Dimension
Strategic Integration
Understand how Person, Process, and Press interact to produce innovation outcomes. Learn how to build organizational innovation capacity systematically, not just tactically.
Outcome: Think strategically about innovation capacity over time, not just individual projects. .
Self-Awareness Foundation
Four Research Validated Assessments
All participants complete assessments that reveal different aspects of thinking style and creative preferences — providing comprehensive self-insight as a foundation for every other capability area.
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Assessment of Problem-Solving Style
Reveals your preferences across the four CPS stages: Clarifying, Ideating, Developing, and Implementing. Shows which phases energize you and where you might have blind spots.
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Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory
Assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator continuum. Adaptors prefer working within structures. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms. Both are essential for balanced teams.
Foursight
Thinking Profile
Identifies which creative process phases energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing ideas, or Implementing plans. Shows natural contributions and blind spots.
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Situational Outlook Questionnaire
Measures organizational climate across nine dimensions. Builds empathy for how environment affects creative work and prepares you to interpret climate data for your teams.
View
Assessment of Problem-Solving Style
Reveals your preferences across the four CPS stages: Clarifying, Ideating, Developing, and Implementing. Shows which phases energize you and where you might have blind spots.
Kai
Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory
Assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator continuum. Adaptors prefer working within structures. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms. Both are essential for balanced teams.
Foursight
Thinking Profile
Identifies which creative process phases energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing ideas, or Implementing plans. Shows natural contributions and blind spots.
soq
Situational Outlook Questionnaire
Measures organizational climate across nine dimensions. Builds empathy for how environment affects creative work and prepares you to interpret climate data for your teams.
Tailored to Your Organization
Every Leadership Development engagement is designed around your organization's context — not a fixed curriculum. We work with you to determine the right structure, timeline, and delivery format based on your goals, team size, and existing innovation initiatives.
Engagements are available virtually, in-person, or in a hybrid format across multiple sessions. We'll discuss the right approach during your planning conversation.
What shapes the design:
- Your participants — roles, experience levels, and influence in the organization
- Your challenges — real problems that become the substrate for learning and practice
- Your timeline — intensive or extended, depending on capacity and urgency
- Your goals — facilitating workshops, building a climate change plan, or both
A structured cohort program is in development. Reach out to be added to our interest list.
What You'll Build
Participants leave every engagement with durable capabilities — not just notes from a training session.
- Facilitation confidence to guide Innovation Workshops independently
- Cognitive diversity fluency for leveraging team differences effectively
- Climate diagnosis skills to strengthen your organizational environment
- Strategic thinking about innovation capacity building over time
- Teaching capability to transfer knowledge throughout your organization