Fail Festivals can be a fun addition to a conference or event, or can be a great internal team-building exercise to showcase how a community or organization is embracing innovation and it’s inherent risk as they scale ideas from pilots to global impact. You can organize your own Fail Festival or get professional help for … Continue reading Organize
For many years, I’ve focused on in-person Fail Festival sessions. Either as big events onto themselves, or as the keynote presentation in an annual conference or signature event. I love the humanity of connecting presenters to their audience in real life with every participant feeling a keen sense of connection with the speakers and each … Continue reading Learning from Failure Virtually – Online via Zoom
Bob Thornton, partner at O’Donnell Impact Windows & Storm Protection, presenting at Small Business Leadership Conference
Most conference programs focus on success stories and examples of leaders who have taken the right path to get positive results. Those kinds of case studies make sense. After all, attendees want to recreate those positive outcomes for themselves and their organizations. That’s the opening paragraph for Creating a Safe Space for Failure, by David … Continue reading Creating a Safe Space for Failure
Fail Festival – a celebration of failure as a mark of leadership, innovation, and risk-taking in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in scaling ideas from pilots to global programs. Failure is the f-word of international development. Unspoken in polite company, but a reality in our work. We’re often in market failure environments, so … Continue reading Fail Festival DC 2017