Our Mission and Objectives

Mission

The Center for Innovation & Change Leadership helps people and organizations to embrace innovation and change through collaboration. We believe that innovation and change leadership require a transformation of both organizational practices and personal abilities. The Center for Innovation & Change Leadership fosters creative collaborations with businesses, government, non-profit organizations, and academia. Our goal is to generate knowledge about and the capacity for innovation and change leadership. We stimulate innovative solutions to business and social problems through ongoing dialogue, basic research and practical application of that research. We also offer fee based and pro bono consulting, degree based educational programs and training and development. We serve as an applied research center that generates real business and social systems results, new intellectual capital, as well as personal and professional networks among our program participants and partners.

Objectives

Overarching Objective: To foster innovation and change leadership research, teaching and service that spans the more typical silos separating academics, such as academic disciplines or departments. CICL wishes to foster more inter disciplinary and inter departmental research, teaching and service initiatives that foster productive collaborations.

Research objectives

• To conduct timely and relevant research addressing emerging issues and challenges related to “Innovation and Change Leadership”.
• To effectively disseminate research findings to the wider academic community, to industry practitioners and government policy makers.

Teaching objectives

• To become a catalyst for innovation and change leadership teaching content within the Sawyer Business School amongst its faculty and within the SBS curriculum, including both degree programs and training initiatives.
• To encourage our students to embrace innovation and change as part of their LINKS capabilities.

Service objectives

To enable our external constituencies (alumni, external business, non-profit or governmental clientele or program participants) to achieve the following:

• Access to the latest thinking and knowledge in the fields of innovation and change
• Customized research, educational and consultancy services focused on the unique requirements of your organization
• Opportunities for cross-sector learning with senior industrial professionals in non-competing companies through fostered dialogue meetings and breakfast briefings
• Opportunities to work with distinguished leading academics and practitioners in a collaborative environment on projects that generate useful knowledge for all participants