IDEO U

Teaching Team Lead

IDEO U is the online school of IDEO - an award-winning global design company that takes a human-centered, design thinking approach to help organizations innovate and grow. IDEO U offers online courses to learn the methods and develop the mindsets that IDEO has practiced for decades to help organizations become more resilient, adaptable, and innovative.

Teaching Assistant

Alumni Coach  

Community Catalyst 

Hochschule Heilbronn - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Informatik

Design and deliver Managing Innovation Hands-on learning experience to Master Students in Entrepreneurship

Adjunct Professor

Self Employed

- Designed and facilitated Strategy & Teambuilding retreats for senior leadership teams of UN organizations. 
- Coached startups at Harvard Innovation Labs, MassChallenge and VersusVirus
- Co-founded Versus Virus - the biggest online, Covid-19 related hackathon (5k participants) and the follow-up incubation program 
- Designed and taught 12-week courses to university students: Managing Innovation; Coaching at Work; The Global Organisation; The Learning Organisation; Design Thinking; Technology, Disruption and Change Management
- Co-founded 42hacks - the most ambitious program for climate-change solutions
- Coached learners at IDEOU
- Founded Legacy ChangeMaker, Swiss Failure Akademy, Lao Cultural Study Group
- Curated and created content for social enterprises 
- Co-designed & co-facilitated the UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchanged Marketplace 2019
- Facilitated and designed innovation processes
- Scaled social ventures for the achievement of the SDGs
- Facilitated human-centered workshops to advance ideas, projects, and business models of social 
   entrepreneurs
- Supported vision, strategy & partnership development of start-ups & international organizations
- Coached, mentored, and conducted team-building of start-ups and high-performance teams

Main clients: UNAIDS, ITC, UNOG, Geneva Business School, Accelerate2030, social entrepreneurs &  high-performance teams

Innovation Strategist, Facilitator & Designer 

Geneva Business School

Design and delivery of virtual, hybrid, and face2face courses to bachelor and master students.

Professional Development

Design and deliver a gamified, 20-hour course on Project Management to bachelor and master students.

Project Manager

Designing and delivering leadership, innovation, and change courses to bachelor and master students

Project Leadership

Design and deliver a 20-hour course on Negotiation Skills to bachelor students

Negotiation Skills

The Art of Networking

Strategic Cross-Cultural Communication

Managing & Investing in People

Technology, Disruption & Change Management

Design Thinking

The Learning Organisation 

The Global Organisation 

Coaching at Work

Innovation in Times of Uncertainty

Managing Innovation

Legacy ChangeMaker

The Purpose of Legacy ChangeMaker is to feature, connect and celebrate ChangeMakers. No matter the size of the change!  

We welcome all ChangeMakers working towards a more peaceful, prosperous, people and planet-centered world.

Our Ambitions: 

1. Featuring one ChangeMaker every week.
2. Building a supportive Legacy Changemaker ecosystem.
3. Spreading courage and inspiration.

Our Values: 

1. Connected
2. Courageous
3. Organic 

The Legacy Changemaker process of inviting speakers: 

1. Select the first changemaker.
2. Every celebrated changemaker suggests someone who inspired them.
3. Approach, invite and present the person who inspired them. 

If you are dreaming of changing the world, and are looking for inspiration you have landed at the right place. We've got your back!

Co-Founder

Versus Virus

The VersusVirus incubator supports Covid-related entrepreneurs to grow and scaleup their solutions. The Lunch & Learn is a one-hour, virtual & interactive presentation that takes place every Friday 12:15-13:15 CET. All sessions are tailored to the specific needs of the startups and aim at increasing their knowledge, skills and capabilities.

Versus Virus Initiator and Content Curator 

Swiss Failure+ Akademy

We help the leaders of tomorrow, to develop soft skills and strong capabilities to handle the unknown, and be free from the fear of failure.

We support you to:

1. Work with the emotions that accompany failure.
2. Accelerate your growth.
3. Transform stuck-ness & negativity into inspiring actions. 

The sf+a exists to:

1. Illuminate that all experience matters 
2. Illustrate that each moment is an end and a beginning
3. Demonstrate that courage is contagious.

This is not for everyone but it might be for you. Are you ready to live your courage?

Founder

Radical Self-Collaboration

Unlock. Your. Power.

The Support Network for self-saboteurs to radically collaborate with themselves, despite the tendency of the mind to get in the way. Established in Geneva, Switzerland in 2017.

We: 

1. Bring together self-saboteurs from all walks of life 
2. Create a safe space to connect, learn and practice
3. Inspire & enable radical self-collaboration
​
All skill levels of self-sabotage are welcomed.

Find. Peace. Of. Mind.

FIND. PEACE. OF. MIND.

42hacks

42hack accelerates real change for the climate by tapping into the amazing human potential worldwide. We bring together people and organizations from different disciplines in a variety of formats to collaborate with change agents, invest in businesses, and support projects for climate change.

Biomimicry Switzerland 

Learning from Nature's Genius

Our mission is to empower humanity to learn and apply the greatest lessons from 3.8 billion years of regenerative research and development.

Managing Partner - Strategic Growth 

Globally Experienced Design Thinking & Creative Leadership Facilitator | Lecturer | Coach

Versatile, organized, and passionate Design Thinking & Innovation facilitator, coach, and lecturer working with organizations, teams & individuals to turn creativity into impact. Designing & facilitating experiences that drive action to achieve outcomes that are sustainable, effective, and ethical.

I embraced the creative journey some 10 years ago.

My secret ingredient is acting upon my imagination.

I :
❌  don’t want to merely dream.
❌  don’t want to keep ideas to myself. 
❌  don’t want to just think outside the box.
❌ don’t want to let the fear of failure hold me back.

Instead, I:
✅  want to learn, grow, and develop through trial and error.
✅  want to make a difference in the world, no matter how small.
✅  want to transform my creative thoughts into impactful actions.
✅  want to collaborate with like-minded people and brave visionaries.

Turning your imagination into reality can lead to extraordinary focus, results, and happiness. 

It can take you on a new journey.  A journey towards living more purposefully and freely.

Are you just daydreaming? Or are you turning your creativity into impact?

#creativity, #future, #choices

Biliana Vassileva

Create nature-inspired solutions for your clients. Learn to apply biomimicry professionally and become a confident, practising biomimic today. Learn more (link in the comments).

Become a Biomimicry Practitioner

When someone says: "She's creative" Here's what they really mean:

"She isn't afraid to take risks"
"She remains open to new ideas"
"She encourages diverse perspectives"
"She experiments with different solutions"
"She constantly questions the status quo"
"She transforms ideas into impactful actions"
"She connects seemingly unrelated concepts"
"She inspires others with her innovative thinking"
"She continues to learn and grow in her creativity"

"Creativity" isn't just a trait. It's a culmination of mindsets and actions executed with curiosity.

#creativity #business #future

The 3 Strategies I Use to Feel My Fear of Failure and Take Action!

#1 My grandmother taught me a simple yet powerful affirmation rooted in a Bulgarian proverb, "The bear is afraid but I am not!" I've been using it all my life.
The trick? Say it, and act right away! My grandma was a firm believer that overthinking only magnifies fear.

#2 Another strategy I've adopted to harness my fear of failure is to imagine the worst-case scenario. I then reverse engineer the situation to find out what I can do, right now, to prevent that worst-case scenario from manifesting.

#3 Finally, it's helpful to remember that my brain is wired for survival. Anything unfamiliar can trigger my survival instincts, causing me to perceive it as a threat. Understanding this helps me acknowledge that fear is natural and a part of life, so I act nevertheless.

What are your strategies? Please share in the comments. 

#fear #strength #growth #personaldevelopment

I paid $ 100 to float for 1 hour in a sensory deprivation device. The promise?

A creative boost. 🌊💡

Did it work? Not quite.

I got annoyed for being gullible.

But as time passed, I began to admire the sheer ingenuity behind the service.

🤔 🤔 🤔 
Imagine this:

A shell-shaped bathtub, complete darkness, water, and enough salt to make you float. 🛁🌌
🤔 🤔 🤔 

Here’s the lesson I took away: 

The ingredients for creativity are all around us. All we need to do is mash up simple ingredients (ideas) into more complex ones.💡🔀

This approach to creativity is called Creative Mashup. 

When was the last time you mashed simple ideas and came up with something new? 

#creativity #business #entrepreneurship

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