Make strategic progress in your independent school.
Upcoming Events
Innovation Sprint
January 2022
Problem Finding and Prototyping
In this three-hour sprint on January 25, schools will break down challenges or opportunities so they can creatively ideate and prioritize action and next steps toward change.
Demand-Side Innovation for Enhancing Enrollment—Spring Session
In this three-hour sprint on March 17, schools will attain a common language around why parents choose their school via NAIS’s Parent Jobs-to-Be-Done research and practice innovation frameworks to turn insights into action.
Demand-Side Innovation for Advancement—Spring Session
In this three-hour sprint on March 22, your team will learn how to use insights from the Donor Jobs research to reimagine your stewardship, fundraising, and communication efforts.
Our Innovation Team supports schools in solving pressing challenges and seizing the right opportunities in order to live their missions and secure sustainable futures. Our team provides resources, experiences, and networks that enhance, design, connect, build, and collaborate.
Enhance
Enhance innovation cultures
Design
Develop skills for project-level innovation designs
Connect
Connect innovation designs to current realities and strategic visions
Build
Build capacity for effective implementation of innovation designs
Collaborate
Expand opportunities for cross-school collaboration
The Strategy Lab Experience
Get a sneak peek at the Strategy Lab experience from NAIS staff and past Strategy Lab participants.
A Community of Innovators
Want to attend a Strategy Lab workshop or test some of our resources? Click below to get involved or email [email protected] for more information.
