Innov8rs London

Following on from the plenary session “The Design Thinking Law Firm: Innovating in a delivery-driven, risk-averse culture”, this interactive workshop will enable participants to collaboratively distil some of the key lessons from DLA Piper’s experience into practical actions that can be taken in their own organisations. It will be a fast-paced, highly interactive, facilitated session that taps into the collective experience of the group to generate tangible solutions for overcoming common cultural barriers to innovation. Facilitation will be led by Jana Blount from DLA Piper along with Adam Billing of Treehouse Innovation.

Jana is a former US litigator who spent a lot of her time in practice thinking “there must be a better way.” She decided that instead of waiting for that way to develop she’d be part of the effort in creating the change. She now works with DLA Piper’s CEO, Simon Levine, developing the radical change strategy and initiatives for the firm. Jana leads the firm’s Change Council to define what DLA Piper means by radical and come up with the ideas on how to make that radical change happen through a shift in culture, design, technology and data. Adam is the Founder of Treehouse Innovation, a London-based innovation and design consultancy. He has spent most of his career working with businesses across sectors to design new products, services and strategies; and to develop their own internal innovation capability. Adam is also the CEO of Sprintbase™, a collaborative innovation software platform that enables remote teams to apply human-centred design to solve complex problems and tackle everyday challenges more creatively. Formerly with Ernst & Young Consulting, he has led numerous innovation projects and design events for all types of organisations including DLA Piper, Sky, Amazon, NBCUniversal, eBay, Sony PlayStation, AstraZeneca, Microsoft and others. He is a frequent lecturer on innovation and human-centred design at the University of Cambridge, and is the author of many published works on the subject of innovation culture.