Unlocking Innovation: AI-Powered Strategies for Higher Education Leaders
Generate innovative, AI-driven solutions to higher education’s challenges.
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Event Details
Unlocking Innovation: AI-Powered Strategies for Higher Education Leaders
Two interactive online sessions | 3 hours each
Monday, February 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST) and Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Are you ready to tackle your institution’s most pressing challenges with fresh, future-focused solutions? This exclusive NACCE workshop is designed specifically for presidents, deans, and higher education leaders ready to think differently and act boldly.
Led by Bryan Mattimore, one of the nation’s leading innovation experts, this dynamic program combines AI-powered ideation techniques with proven team problem-solving strategies to help you generate actionable solutions that create lasting impact.
Why Attend
1. Focus on What Matters Most
Before the sessions, you and fellow participants will complete a pre-event survey to identify today’s most urgent challenges facing higher education—such as enrollment, funding, workforce readiness, and leadership. The workshop will focus squarely on solving those top issues.
2. Learn Cutting-Edge AI-Enhanced Tools
Go beyond the buzzwords and discover practical, easy-to-use methods for sparking innovation, including:
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TRIZ – A globally recognized framework for inventive problem-solving
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AI-powered Brainwalking – Supercharge brainstorming with AI-driven insights
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Semantic Intuition – Generate breakthrough ideas by remixing familiar language
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Problem Redefinition – Reveal new opportunities hidden inside existing challenges
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Storytelling & Billboarding – Build buy-in through compelling narratives and visual strategies
3. Collaborate and Build Your Network
Work alongside a select group of higher education leaders who share your passion for innovation. Together, you’ll co-create strategies and forge connections that extend beyond the workshop.
About the Speaker:
Bryan Mattimore
Bryan Mattimore is Cofounder and “Chief Idea Guy” of the Growth Engine Company, a 25-year-old ideation and innovation facilitation company based in Chicopee, MA.
In his business consulting career, Bryan has designed and facilitated over 1,000 strategy, new product, and positioning ideation sessions, moderated over 500 focus groups, and managed over two hundred successful innovation projects, leading to $3 billion in new sales annually for one-third of the Fortune 100 companies. Clients include IBM, LVMH, Merck, Pepsi, P&G, J & J, Mondelez, Shell Chemical, Ford, and Unilever.
Bryan is a Senior Fellow with The Conference Board, and an innovation and marketing instructor for Caltech and TCU in their Executive Education Departments. His two-day creativity workshop, Ingenious Problem Solving combines the newest advances in generative AI with proven group ideation techniques.
Bryan’s seven books on creativity, ideation and innovation processes include industry best sellers 21 Days to a Big Idea, and Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a major in psychology, Bryan’s two newest leadership books are Islands of Invention, How to Create Extraordinary Innovation Centers, and Twenty Questions Great Leaders Ask.