Organizations that succeed today are not necessarily those with the best ideas, but those that learn faster, challenge their ways of doing things, and turn uncertainty into opportunities for innovation. In an environment marked by accelerating change, pressure on performance, and constantly evolving expectations, collaborative innovation has become a strategic lever for differentiation, adaptation, and value creation.
Inspired by the key stages of Design Thinking and best practices in collaborative innovation, this immersive certification offers much more than a method. Through hands-on experiences, collaborative workshops, and a real project specific to your organization, you will learn how to better understand needs, expand your creative space, and generate solutions that can be quickly tested and implemented.
How can innovation be stimulated in complex contexts? How can the right conditions be created for strong and mobilizing ideas to emerge? How can we move more quickly from insight to action? This certification will help you develop a creative, strategic, and confident mindset to transform ideas into concrete, useful solutions that drive impact.
INNOVATE TOGETHER: TURN YOUR IDEAS INTO HIGH-IMPACT PROJECTS
The successful completion of this program entitles you to a digital certificate. These credentials are trusted, secure, verifiable, and sustainable.

GOALS
This program will enable you to:
- Understand human and organizational needs with empathy, openness, and discernment
- Reframe complex challenges into genuine opportunities for innovation
- Experiment with best practices in innovation and Design Thinking to structure a human-centered and responsible innovation approach
- Mobilize collective intelligence to generate creative ideas with strong potential
- Develop an innovation mindset that fosters buy-in, leadership, and action
- Create an action plan for a high-impact innovation project specific to your organization
IS THIS FOR YOU?
This training is designed for teams and leaders who wish to master an innovation approach and foster a culture of innovation within their organization:
- Executives, managers, and professionals
- Innovation or transformation leaders
- Project managers working on innovation initiatives
- Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
- Innovation consultants
- Multidisciplinary teams working on complex projects
We strongly encourage participation in pairs or teams from the same organization to maximize learning transfer and embed initiatives within the organization. A 20% discount is offered for two registrations or more from the same organization.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- An immersive experience rooted in Montréal’s creative ecosystem
- An experiential approach that breaks away from conventional frameworks
- A balance between creativity, strategy, leadership, and experimentation
- Learnings that are directly applicable in organizations
- A concrete project developed throughout the program
- A strong focus on human factors, collective intelligence, and value creation
- Exclusive access to the Mosaic network, HEC Montréal’s hub for innovation and creativity