Changes

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">University Innovation Fellows helps to teach a variety of different products in each of the different sessions that are presented during training. These days , companies and organizat</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">ions</span> all over the world are working towards developing, growing and maintaining their best talent and ideas. They are embracing diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to maintain this culture of growth. The University Innovation Fellows Program has gone through and incorporated many of these ideas and skills into their program, including design thinking, segmentation, landscape canvas, project management, and building connections.&nbsp;

Ryan also talked about how it has benefited companies and culture, especially at Microsoft. For example, Ryan incorporated and implemented the Landscape Canvas into his role as a Project Manager. He was able to see what wat connections can we make, what connections are missing, and how can we make those connections, which he then was able to present to multiple VP-level executives, who then got free localization for internal startups using the idea of a landscape canvas. Being able to see these sorts of connections and implement them on a larger scale is applicable to any industry and even more, cross-industry as well.&nbsp;

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the biggest challenges we face as innovators, entrepreneurs, and designers is our attitudes. We are taught to let crticism to &nbsp;</span>criticism<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;roll off our backs, to not pay attention to the "haters," but rather, to stay focused and achieve what you're aiming for. However, to become a badass in any indsutry &nbsp;</span>industry<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;- and to stay a badass - requires taking others' perspectives into consideration, slowing down and listening to peers and teachers, and achieving a role of humility in your industry. Note that humility does not mean passiveness. Instead, it requires an attitude of understanding, application, and thinking of yourself as an equal to your associates.</span>