The Workshop

What if your next career move wasn’t incremental, but imaginative?

Pitch, Picture, Prototype is a hands-on workshop for creative professionals who are ready to explore new directions with intention and craft.

You’ll develop a bold idea for what you might do next, express it in compelling ways, and plan an experiment to make it real.

This workshop is for you to rethink and remake the shape of your work.

Through guided, hands-on exercises, you’ll articulate a clear pitch for your next big thing, picture it in detail, and design experiment to explore key elements so it’s more than just talk. Expect thoughtful prompts, practical tools, and lively conversation. You’ll leave with momentum and a plan in hand.

This six-hour workshop includes a follow-on session and an online Slack community all designed to help you develop a bold, imaginative “next thing” by moving through three phases: Pitch, Picture, and Prototype.

Our day begins with reflection and framing, creating space to identify the work you feel called toward but may hesitate to pursue.

Then, in the Pitch phase, you clarify an aspiration, articulate its value and audience, and develop a concise pitch.

In Picture, you translate those ideas into tangible signals by designing swag and other artifacts that represent the “next thing” in the world, helping make that vision and dream feel inhabited and real.

Finally, in Prototype, you design a minimum viable experiment you can run within two weeks, to learn from the idea in practice.

By the end of the workshop, you leave with a compelling pitch, a tangible expression of your “next thing”, and a concrete experiment you’re committed to trying.

A few weeks after the workshop, we’ll meet again for a check-in to celebrate the work you’ve done on your way to your “next thing”, learn from each other, and strengthen our comradery.

We’ll continue that comradery though a dedicated online Slack community that you will be a part of forever — a place for sharing ideas and inspiration going forward, helping each other achieve what’s next.

Hosted by Carl DiSalvo, Julian Bleecker, and Lisa Hair Konishi

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