ARCHER CAREER CAMP

Innovation Unframed:
Building Entrepreneurial Skills

Innovation and Entrepreneurship are key skills for the workforce of today and in the future.
These apply in start-ups, consulting, corporate roles, research, and academia. Combine skill build with an immersive experience, using art as the inspiration and insights for innovation.
Learn more below.

Course Registration

$125.00

Coming in 2025
Art Institute of Chicago
Modern Wing Entrance
159 East Monroe Street

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What is included?

  • Pre-work course: Build Entrepreneurial Skills

  • Entry admission to The Art Institute

  • Digital course during oni-ste program

  • Badge and certificate for LinkedIn

  • Team work and building community

  • Inspiration from incredible art

  • Fun evening in downtown Chicago

What’s an immersive program?

Learn through experience and active engagement.

Work in a location to engage the surroundings and drive focus.

We have individual, partner, and team activities.

It’s not boring! It’s digital! It’s active.

Learning and skill building are done through a series of small activities.

What are the learning goals?

  • Cultivate an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Gain insights on key concepts of entrepreneurship through hands-on and creative exercises.

  • Innovate with Scientific and Artistic Inspiration: Draw insights from art at to enhance your research, ideas, education, and thinking.

  • Collaborate on Breakthrough Ideas: Engage in the Innovation Cloud and other team-driven activities to refine and expand innovation frameworks.

  • Leverage Professional Networks: Analyze your network and plan actions to drive innovation and continue to advance your career progress.

  • Spot Emerging Trends for Impact: Develop the ability to identify and apply innovative strategies, staying ahead as the future of work continues to evolve.

Course Topics

  • Do you think like an entrepreneur. Do you prioritize innovation, no matter your role?

    Skill focus: Self-awarness

  • What is it and how does it apply and impact innovation. Then, how do you build it.

    Skill focus: Self-leadership

  • What is this and how do we tap into our observations, knowledge, and generation of insights. How do we apply Design Thinking.

    Skill focus: Critical thinking, innovation

  • What we know balances with who we know. Collaborators, resources, funding. Do you know your network? For now and in the future? Can you mobilize systems through people?

    Skill focus: Interpersonal skills

  • Do you actively seek out feedback and input? Do you get information early to make adjustments? Feedback getting and applying must be a habit.

    Skill focus: Mental flexibility

  • Things happen with resources. Resources come from making a financial case and showing the ROI. Do you have a solid footing in financial acumen? Have you put the numbers together? Budgets, grants, funding?

    Skill focus: Financial literacy and communication

Watch the course demo (video)