Lean Methodology Design, a Two-Part Series [Registration Required]

Pratt master's students can register at wconline.pratt.duke.edu on the Professional Development Masters F19 schedule.

Are you looking for new ways to solve problems or find a better way to test out new ideas? Join this design workshop and get a first-hand experience running through a process used by entrepreneurs and professionals to gain customer insights and create stronger solutions. This two-part workshop will include real world examples and interactive tools.

Facilitator: Liz Tracy is a mission-focused leader with experience building collaborative communities. She has a deep understanding of how to build initiatives from the ground up with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. She is the former Director of HQ Raleigh, an award-winning space that is the first certified B Corps co-working space in North Carolina. At HQ, she worked on partnership development, space design, and how businesses can align with social impact.

Liz is an experienced instructor, teaching social entrepreneurship and facilitating the Innovator's Program Startup Accelerator every fall for the past four years. Liz led week-long boot camp workshops with technology startups and coached these companies over a 12-week program to help them build stronger businesses. Today she is an industrial/organizational psychology doctoral student at NCSU and a social entrepreneurship strategist and facilitator with an emphasis on solutions that create lasting social, economic and environmental value.