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World Creativity and Innovation Week in Ukraine 2023

One of the main ideas supported by the KROK Business School is the development of creativity and innovation of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses. That is why we implement the global initiative "World Creativity and Innovation Week and Day", which is officially supported by the United Nations, which takes place on April 15-21 around the world. In 2023, World Creativity and Innovation Week is dedicated to Inspiration. So let's find inspiration for ourselves by attending the events of the World Creativity and Innovation Week and Day at KROK Business School.

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ATTENTION! The program may change and be supplemented!

April 15, Saturday 11:00 – 13:00

Panel discussion "Inspiration in Ukrainian style"

Moderator - Oksana Sedashova

Offline with Facebook stream

KROK Business School, 30-32, Tabirna str. Kyiv

Since more than a year of war, Ukrainians have shown the world the best qualities - courage, honesty, dedication, altruism, humanity, resilience and creativity - which has become a confirmation that Ukraine is an extraordinary original country that is worthy of the best. The whole world remembered the slogan "Ukraine is the country of brave people". KROK Business School invites you to talk with creators of concepts that inspire Ukrainians and represent Ukraine in the world as a creative and innovative state.

  • Speaker 1, Artem Gusev, art director.
  • Speaker 2, Sonya Morozyuk, a modern artist of Ukrainian hearts
  • Speaker 3, Maksym Palenko, artist, illustrator
  • Speaker 4, Mari Kinovich, illustrator

 

14:00 – 17:00

Mastermind "Business vs Creative:

the magic of mutual consulting to solve problems"

Offline KROK Business School, 30-32, Tabirna str. Kyiv

Participation is included in the total cost of organizing the World Week of Creativity and Innovation, the participation of participants is limited to 10 people by prior selection: https://bit.ly/3JSRFKB

The number of participants is limited to 10 people: 5 from business, 5 from the advertising industry.

Mastermind is a group format for solving business problems, where participants share their requests and tasks, and other members of the group act as a Board of Directors for each person, sharing their own experiences or providing recommendations for solving each problem. In this way, powerful mutual consulting takes place, which, with the help of an experienced facilitator in this format, turns into a source of breakthroughs and innovations.

April 17, Monday

17:15 – 18:15, Online

Webinar "Looking for Inspiration: Sculptor Oleksandr Lidagovskyi"

Looking for inspiration for business development, for finding new creative strategies for developing your own business and organizing your life, we turn to extraordinary creators whose psychology of creative thinking will help us see new ways of finding ideas and turning them into reality. Such a person is the famous sculptor Oleksandr Lidagovskyi, whose sculptures inspire not only Ukrainians, but also people from all over the world.

April 18, Tuesday

16:00 – 17:30, Online

Webinar "In Search of Inspiration: Creating a Vision for the Future"

Susanne Dameron, creative consultant, USA

The working language of the webinar is English.

The war in no way prevents Ukrainians from dreaming and planning for the future, and thanks to flexibility and adaptability, plans can be adjusted. Visionary thinking is an important skill for managers at all levels. Seeing where we want to go connects us to our purpose and gives us energy, motivation and confidence. In a 90-minute session, Florida-based creative consultant Susan Dameron will guide participants through a visionary thinking process that lays the foundation for creating a vision for their future or their company. As a result of the session, participants will have a vision and clear steps to take to make it a reality. .

 

17:45 – 18:45, Online

Online panel discussion "In search of inspiration: the project "Vidvazhna (Brave)", initiated by the Diya.Business network of centers"

«Vidvazhna» is a unique inclusive business accelerator for women who seek independent development and want to start their own business or develop an existing business. The offline format of the project takes place on the basis of 9 Diya.Business in different cities of Ukraine. At the panel discussion, we will get to know the creators of innovative business ideas - goal-oriented, brave and determined girls who get knowledge at the Diya.Business center in Bucha and raise their business to a new level. So let's get to know the "Brave" and be inspired by the unique stories of female entrepreneurship from the hero town Bucha.

What shall we talk about?

  • how dare to do business during the war ;
  • what is the peculiarity of women's entrepreneurship ;
  • how creativity and bold, non-standard thinking help to make business breakthroughs despite all the troubles - during the war ;
  • how to develop your own business and help rebuild Ukraine.

Speakers:

  • Yehor Osadchuk, project mentor, founder of Osadchuk Consulting & Management
  • participants of the «Vidvazhna» project who can share the history of creating and running their businesses

Moderator of the discussion – Oksana Sedashova

Access to the event: FREE for everyone

REGISTER Online panel discussion "In search of inspiration: the project "Vidvazhna (Brave)"

April 19, Wednesday

17:00 – 18:00, Online

Webinar "Looking for inspiration. MAVKA. Forest song: the story of creation"

Speaker: Iryna Kostyuk, producer and ideological inspirer of the animated film "Mavka. Forest Song"

Ukrainian animated film "Mavka. "Forest Song" already after the first weekend set record box office figures - almost UAH 25 million and gathered 189,048 viewers. The premiere of the cartoon took place on March 2, 2023, and more than 80 countries bought the rights to show it. During the webinar with Iryna Kostyuk, producer and ideological inspirer of the animated film"Mavka. Forest song", you will learn the secrets of the creation of this film, namely what innovations were used during the creation of the cartoon and what strategies helped make it financially successful.

April 20, Thursday

16:00 – 17:00, Online

Webinar "Looking for inspiration: Argentine tango maestro Anatoly Yakimchuk"

What can business learn from tango?

In tango, as in business, it is important to have your own mission, goal and vision of yourself in the process.

In tango, every step is an opportunity to feel alive, conscious and focused on what is happening here and now. Do you want your business project to be alive and inspiring, where decisions are made consciously according to the changing situation, and flexibility helps to do it quickly and efficiently.

Tango strategies for business and life - tango maestro Anatoliy Yakimchuk (Antonio) will tell about this with inspiration, who not only teaches tango, but also changes people's thinking and behavioral strategies.

 

17:15 – 18:45, Online

Webinar "Leader of the heart. Are you one of them?”

Marie Reig Florence (Berlin, Germany), creative leadership expert, executive coach.

The working language of the webinar is English

It is a challenging job to be highly creative, create significant impact and move forward towards breakthrough innovation while navigating rapid change and constantly adapting to a fragile, uncertain, ambiguous, anxious, non-linear, complex and almost incomprehensible context. What if there was a way to put creativity at the service of powerful influence to develop yourself and your team, company, business idea? What if "leading from the heart" is much more than a pretty metaphor? You are invited on a journey of discovery and research of the "inside-out leadership" paradigm. Exceptional leaders lead from the heart. Are you one of them?

During the 90-minute webinar, Marie Raig Florence, a consultant and leadership coach from Berlin, will show how leaders can achieve the highest level of creativity in order to create a positive impact on the development of the company.

April 21, Friday

10:00 – 16:00, Offline

Creative Problem Solving Challenge

Team championship on methods of creative problem solving.

Trainers-facilitators: Roman Romantsov, Oksana Sedashova, methodologist Svitlana Dzennyk

Participation is included in the total cost of organizing the World Week of Creativity and Innovation, the participation of participants is limited to 20 people by prior registration for this offline event: https://bit.ly/40MgL4B

How to learn to systematically and confidently solve problems at the enterprise? We invite you to learn how to do this by mastering problem-solving methods that combine a systems analytical approach to problem analysis with the use of Lean tools and progressive creative thinking techniques to solve business problems.

Participation in the challenge will be useful for managers and owners of companies involved in business management and development, MBA degree students and all those who face various problems in their work and are looking for new methods of solving them.

During the challenge, participants will form teams that, after mastering the theoretical material, will receive tasks to analyze and solve problems at various enterprises. The format of the competition will make it possible to determine the strongest team, the members of which are better than everyone else - they will cope with solving problems faster and better.

In the program:

  • Problems and their types in the business environment
  • Problem formulation skills
  • The concept of the Root Cause (Root Cause) and its role in solving problems
  • A structured approach to solving problems
  • The PDCA cycle in problem solving
  • Creative thinking methods for solving business problems
  • Improvements Roadmap
  • Concept of "Leading & Lagging KPIs"
  • Visualization of process efficiency monitoring

 

16:30-17:30

Webinar "Source of creative inspiration"

Michael Lee (Johannesburg, South Africa), transformational coach, creativity and innovation coach

The language of the webinar is English

Together with the famous international expert on creativity, Michael Lee, we will find out what can become an internal source of inspiration and how to manage it.

fee for participation in all events of the

World Creativity and Innovation Week is UAH 490

 

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ATTENTION! The program may change and be supplemented!

Oksana Sedashova For more information: Oksana Sedashova
+38 044 339 90 63
+38 097 601 61 21
SedashovaOA@krok.edu.ua