The 7 Creativity Tools: Unlocking Innovation and Strategic Insight

Course Description:

This dynamic course introduces participants to the 7 Creativity Tools—a powerful set of methods designed to spark innovation, generate breakthrough ideas, and solve complex problems with clarity and confidence. Rooted in strategic thinking and practical application, these tools help individuals and teams overcome mental blocks, challenge assumptions, and approach challenges with fresh, creative perspectives.

Whether you’re designing a new product, leading a team, launching a ministry initiative, or solving a tough organizational issue, these tools will guide you to uncover deeper insights and craft inventive, effective solutions. Each tool is designed to tap into a different aspect of creative thinking—from reframing problems to harnessing intuition, spotting patterns, and navigating ambiguity.

Participants will:

• Learn and apply all 7 Creativity Tools through hands-on exercises and real-life scenarios.
• Strengthen their ability to generate novel ideas under pressure or constraints.
• Improve collaboration and innovation within teams or leadership environments.
• Develop a mindset of curiosity, adaptability, and courageous exploration.

These creativity tools are further empowered by Advanced Failure Determination (AFD)—a critical extension that allows you to anticipate unseen weaknesses in ideas or plans before they emerge, enabling you to innovate with foresight and resilience.

Express Situation Assessment Model (ESAM): Rapid Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments

Course Description:

This course introduces students to the Express Situation Assessment Model (ESAM)—a strategic framework designed to support fast, accurate, and informed decision-making in high-pressure or rapidly evolving situations. ESAM equips learners with practical tools to assess, interpret, and respond to complex scenarios by focusing on critical cues, risk evaluation, and strategic foresight.

Through a combination of real-world case studies, simulations, and scenario-based training, students will develop the ability to apply ESAM in diverse fields such as emergency management, leadership, military operations, ministry, healthcare, and corporate strategy. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating intuitive awareness, situational discernment, and confident action aligned with mission objectives and values.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Understand the core principles and structure of the Express Situation Assessment Model.
• Analyze situations using ESAM to quickly identify key variables and decision pathways.
• Strengthen their leadership and communication under pressure.
• Enhance group collaboration in time-sensitive and uncertain environments.

These tools and methods are based on the most advanced approaches of any innovation systems in the World

These powerful tools will also be enhanced by Advanced Failure Determination (AFD), enabling you to identify and address potential failures that are not yet on anyone’s radar screens.

Express Situation Assessment Model (ESAM): Rapid Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments

Course Description:

This course introduces students to the Express Situation Assessment Model (ESAM)—a strategic framework designed to support fast, accurate, and informed decision-making in high-pressure or rapidly evolving situations. ESAM equips learners with practical tools to assess, interpret, and respond to complex scenarios by focusing on critical cues, risk evaluation, and strategic foresight.

Through a combination of real-world case studies, simulations, and scenario-based training, students will develop the ability to apply ESAM in diverse fields such as emergency management, leadership, military operations, ministry, healthcare, and corporate strategy. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating intuitive awareness, situational discernment, and confident action aligned with mission objectives and values.

By the end of this course, students will:

• Understand the core principles and structure of the Express Situation Assessment Model.
• Analyze situations using ESAM to quickly identify key variables and decision pathways.
• Strengthen their leadership and communication under pressure.
• Enhance group collaboration in time-sensitive and uncertain environments.

These powerful tools will also be enhanced by Advanced Failure Determination (AFD), enabling you to identify and address potential failures that are not yet on anyone’s radar screens.

Chaos & Complexity: Navigating Uncertainty with Strategic Clarity

Course Description:

This course explores the fascinating and often misunderstood world of chaos and complexity, equipping leaders, thinkers, and problem-solvers with tools to thrive in uncertain, fast-changing environments. Drawing from systems theory, organizational dynamics, and decision science, this course helps participants understand how seemingly random or chaotic situations often follow deeper patterns—and how to harness those patterns for better outcomes.

Rather than trying to eliminate uncertainty, students will learn to embrace it, gaining the mindset and strategies needed to lead and innovate within complex systems. Whether facing rapid change, disruptive challenges, or unpredictable group behavior, you’ll discover how to recognize order within chaos, make decisions without full control, and find clarity amid confusion.

Key learning outcomes:

• Understand foundational principles of chaos theory and complexity science.
• Identify hidden structures, patterns, and leverage points within dynamic systems.
• Learn to lead adaptively when outcomes are uncertain and conditions are unstable.
• Apply frameworks to real-life scenarios in leadership, ministry, crisis response, innovation, and strategy.

The course concludes by integrating Advanced Failure Determination (AFD)—a forward-looking diagnostic method that helps reveal emerging points of breakdown or opportunity before they become visible, giving you a decisive edge in volatile environments.

Those who have spent many years in the quality field are very comfortable with tools like control charts, design of experiments, and other mechanical approaches to solving problems. This course challenges and expands that foundation, offering a new lens for approaching situations where traditional tools may fall short—situations defined by ambiguity, interdependence, and nonlinearity.

Healthcare CEOs and other executives have for many years navigated extraordinarily complex and chaotic environments. These seasoned leaders have found the tools for managing chaos and complexity to be extremely valuable—not only for strategic decisions, but also for innovation, crisis leadership, and long-term planning. Today, the rapid birth and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the pace of disruption and generating new, unpredictable problems at an unprecedented rate. Many of these problems can only be truly understood and solved using the principles and tools of chaos and complexity. Our course will include the powerful lessons learned from these executives, providing real-world insights that sharpen your ability to lead confidently in an increasingly complex world.

Expanded AFD: Advanced Failure Determination for Proactive Insight and Resilient Design

Course Description:

This intensive course introduces and expands upon the transformative methodology of Advanced Failure Determination (AFD)—a strategic framework for uncovering hidden risks, diagnosing root causes, and anticipating system failures before they occur. Unlike conventional failure analysis, which often reacts to what has already gone wrong, Expanded AFD is proactive, predictive, and deeply integrative, giving decision-makers a decisive edge in high-stakes environments.

Drawing on principles from systems thinking, cognitive science, engineering, and organizational psychology, this course equips participants to see beyond the obvious, identifying failure pathways that remain invisible to standard problem-solving methods. Through immersive simulations, real-world case studies, and structured thinking exercises, learners will develop the mental models and investigative habits needed to forecast disruptions, protect critical functions, and build adaptive resilience into both human and technical systems.

Key learning outcomes:

• Master the foundational principles of Advanced Failure Determination and how they differ from traditional root cause analysis.
• Learn to detect weak signals and subtle precursors to failure across operational, cultural, and structural dimensions.
• Use strategic foresight to uncover hidden interdependencies that may lead to cascading failure or blind spots.
• Apply Expanded AFD to engineering systems, executive decision-making, product design, safety risk, ministry planning, and crisis leadership.
• Integrate AFD into continuous improvement, innovation, and quality assurance processes across sectors.

This course also teaches how to map “emerging failures” that exist before traditional indicators are triggered, and how to embed preemptive failure analysis into both strategic planning and everyday operational decisions. Students will leave with a practical toolkit and templates they can begin using immediately in their organizations.

AFD is especially vital in today’s rapidly shifting environments. As artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and global interconnectivity introduce layers of speed and complexity never seen before, Expanded AFD enables leaders to stay ahead—not just of the curve, but of the collapse.

Executives in fields such as healthcare, aerospace, defense, ministry, and corporate leadership have begun adopting Expanded AFD to prepare for what most can’t yet see—disruptions not currently on anyone’s radar, but already forming in the margins. This course includes firsthand insights from seasoned leaders who have used AFD tools to make mission-critical decisions and prevent catastrophic outcomes.

Those interested in using these tools can participate in comprehensive training to begin using the techniques and frameworks directly within their own context. Alternatively, organizations may choose to call upon seasoned AFD experts who specialize in identifying and solving unforeseen problems that lie ahead in your business or mission’s evolution. Whether you build the internal capability or seek trusted advisors, Expanded AFD offers unmatched foresight and resilience in an age of uncertainty.