CORPORATE INNOVATION HUB
We turn uncertainty into a strategic advantage by sparking creative, human-centered, cross-disciplinary experimentation that makes innovation inevitable.
WHY INNOVATION FAILS
Innovation, R&D, UX, HR, Digital, tech, and strategy departments in forward-thinking companies face challenges that keep them from reaching their potential:
- Talent gaps → Struggling to find professionals who mix creativity, technical skills, and business acumen.
- Scaling innovation → Difficulty embedding bold thinking across teams and scaling ideas into viable products.
- Lack of fresh perspectives → Limited exposure to external disruptors who bring cross-industry insights.
- Innovation fatigue → Teams lose energy without the right tools and mindsets to keep momentum alive.
- Market pressure → The constant demand to differentiate and stay ahead while balancing costs.
Our response:
The Unconventional School operates as a talent and leadership hub for disruptive innovation.
We don’t teach innovation. We spark disruptors capable of making it inevitable.
HOW WE PARTNER WITH COMPANIES
1. Corporate Training
We design tailored training programs built around real business challenges and specific needs, embedding innovation where impact actually matters.
We activate creativity, sustain experimentation in day-to-day work, and turn business friction into momentum for innovation, exactly where the organisation needs it.
What it looks like:
- Bespoke learning experiences (from 3-hour sessions to multi-day programs), aligned with strategic objectives
- Hands-on, experiential methodologies grounded in strategy, Design Thinking, and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
- Delivered in English or Spanish
- Eligible for FUNDAE funding in Spain, to maximise accessibility and impact
2. Corporate Subscriptions
For companies ready to go further, our annual subscription creates a living partnership between your organisation and The Unconventional School.
What you get:
- Exclusive Access to Talent →hire from a curated pool of disruptors trained to thrive in uncertainty and drive transformation.
- Workshops & Innovation Challenges → alumni and professional learners tackle your live business problems, sparking bold, unexpected solutions.
- Leadership Events → inspiring sessions with global provocateurs from IDEOU, Stanford, and pioneering companies.
- Combat Innovation Fatigue → fresh energy, experimentation rituals, and continuous community engagement to sustain momentum.
- Global Network of Rebels → connect with disruptors across industries who challenge conventional thinking.
Subscriptions are not about training. They’re about building a continuous flow of talent, culture, and innovation energy into your company.
PREVIOUS TRAINING CASES
Culture, Purpose & Strategy
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Who We Are and What We Want to Become: Defining the organisational DNA and designing a three-year strategy to guide transformation, growth, and strategic focus. (Online Marketing & Social Innovation organisations)
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From Values to Action: Defining the university’s core values as part of a new brand positioning, translating purpose into a clear cultural and strategic foundation. (Education)
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Mission Possible: A co-creation project to design and define the organisation’s new mission and vision for the next three years, creating clarity and strategic alignment. (Technology)
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Imagining Our Future: Designing the future of the organisation by identifying new products, audiences, and markets, and aligning innovation efforts with long-term strategy. (Technology)
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Living Our Values: Redesigning the onboarding experience to ensure corporate values are not just communicated, but genuinely understood and embodied from day one. (Automotive)
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Redefining the Game: Designing a new business model to enable more effective application of social innovation across client organisations, aligning impact with sustainability. (Social Innovation Cooperative)
Collaboration & Communication
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Building Bridges Between Departments: A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® project to align consumer insights from the digital team with business strategy and operational requirements, improving cross-department decision-making. (Digital organisation)
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Empathy and Communication in Project squads: A project designed to identify and resolve communication frictions within an international project team, strengthening trust, clarity, and collaboration. (Manufacturing)
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Breaking Silos to Build Synergies: A co-creation project focused on identifying and addressing interdepartmental frictions in global projects, enabling smoother collaboration and shared ownership. (Manufacturing)
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The Power of One: A project designed to reinforce a sense of belonging and shared identity across employees from different departments, strengthening collaboration at scale. (Digital company)
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Making Innovation Visible: A project aimed at increasing the visibility and accessibility of existing innovation initiatives, ensuring impact and knowledge sharing across associated scientific centres. (Healthcare)
Bring bold, tailored learning into your teams
Employee Experience & Wellbeing
- Turning Friction into Strategic Innovation: A project to identify frictions within the technology department and design actions that turn them into competitive advantage, making better use of existing resources. (Education)
- Happiness by Design: A project focused on improving organisational wellbeing through co-creation sessions that surface friction and design rituals to sustainably amplify happiness at work. (Technology)
- New Rituals for New Scenarios: A project launched during the pandemic to strengthen culture and team cohesion within a Technology Centre of Excellence operating under a hybrid work model. (Technology)
Talent & Storytelling
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Creative Hiring Labs: Designing recruitment processes to identify candidates with distinctive creative capabilities for a newly created innovation department. (Technology)
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Hiring with Play: Designing hiring processes through play to improve the match between candidates’ skills and values and those of the organisation. (Technology)
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Storytelling for Science: A Training Lab designed to strengthen storytelling capabilities among educators and PhD students, enabling them to communicate scientific projects with greater clarity and impact. (Research centre)
Innovation, AI & Experimentation
- Thinking Differently, Working Boldly: A Training Lab combining LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, AI, and Creative Strategy to introduce new tools and creative mindsets that drive differentiation in future product development. (Architecture company)
- From Fear to Fuel: A project focused on identifying and overcoming organisational barriers to AI adoption, turning resistance into informed action and momentum. (Multiple technology and digital companies)
- Design & AI: A Training Lab designed to strengthen creative capabilities through the practical use of artificial intelligence, working with UX and digital teams. (UX & Digital teams)
Innovative Applications of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
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Bricks for Insights: A Training Lab using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as a qualitative research technique to surface insights, patterns, and unspoken assumptions. (Technology, Digital organisations & UX practitioners)
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From Play to Innovation: A Training Lab applying LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to generate creative solutions and prototype ideas, accelerating collective thinking and decision-making. (Technology, Digital organisations & UX practitioners)
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Play to Heal: A co-creation and training project with healthcare professionals, applying LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to gather meaningful insights and improve treatments for children with autism. (Healthcare)
Injecting innovation energy into your organisation
Society & Social Transformation
- Changing Habits to Drive Responsible Consumption: A project to research and identify potentially responsible consumers in order to trigger meaningful shifts in purchasing habits and promote more conscious consumption.
(Social Cooperative) - Becoming the North Star for Our Audiences: Designing strategies to build long-term relationships with audiences while sustaining clear social impact, aligning purpose, engagement, and business decisions. (Coaching & Training)
Science & Research
- Nano for Life: Co-creating actions to define new audiences and support the market positioning and commercialisation of nanotechnology-based products. (Scientific Research Centre)
- Sustainable Labs: Defining and activating actions to reduce the carbon footprint generated by employees within a research centre, connecting sustainability goals with everyday behaviour. (Scientific Research Centre)
- Nano Delivery: Creative inspiration sessions to reimagine new drug delivery approaches through nanotechnology, opening alternative paths for medical innovation. (Science Company)
- PREMSTEM – Stem Cell Futures: European project focused on building acceptance among both the general public and professional audiences for new clinical trials for premature infants using stem cells. (Scientific Research Centre)
Education, Learning & Youth Leadership
- ResIDEA – Circular Economy in the Classroom: Co-creating solutions with young people to real organisational challenges using waste materials from other companies. Designing sustainability spaces in schools that express youth values through Design Thinking and participatory design. (Catalan Government)
- InChildHealth – Co-Creating Healthier Schools: Engaging teachers and students to make the invisible problem of air quality visible, ideate solutions, and test prototypes that improve wellbeing in the classroom. (Science Research Centre)
- From Values to Action: Supporting educators and school leadership teams in aligning institutional values with real behaviours and everyday practices that shape school culture. (University sector)
- Learning by Play: Introducing LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as a learning accelerator to strengthen collaboration, empathy, and creative problem-solving in youth programs, working with both students and educators. (Catalan Government)
- SuperNano & Science Through Creativity: An educational program designed to inspire the next generation of young scientists through hands-on experiences that combine science, play, and storytelling, making complex concepts tangible and engaging. (Catalan Government)
- Building the Future Starts by Imagining It Together: A creative project to activate talent, explore new paths, and learn what teamwork really means, working with young people in educational contexts. (Education Foundation)
POWERED BY +45K LEARNERS ACROSS INDUSTRIES
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