Host: Annine Crystal—Assistant Teaching Professor

About the Session: Today’s workplace challenges rarely come with straightforward solutions. Design thinking offers a human-centered approach to innovation that helps leaders navigate complexity, drive collaboration, and create meaningful change.

Join educator and leadership expert Annine Crystal for an engaging session on how professionals across industries can use design thinking principles to rethink problems, generate ideas, and build more effective solutions.

Drawing from experience in teaching, instructional leadership, coaching, and organizational learning, Dr. Crystal will guide participants through practical strategies grounded in empathy, experimentation, and collaborative problem-solving.

You’ll leave with actionable tools for approaching challenges with greater creativity, adaptability, and confidence—skills that are increasingly essential in today’s evolving professional landscape.