AI Powered Innovation
Program Details
Type: Group-Paced
Cost: $1,250
Duration: 7 Weeks
Location: Online
Imagination Meets Intelligence
Join this 7‑week training to unlock creative intelligence in yourself, your team, and your organization. In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the program blends human‑centered creativity with AI tools to help you think differently, solve complex problems, and lead innovation with confidence. During the first three weeks, you’ll focus on personal creativity—expanding your mindset around where ideas come from and exploring the Invention Cycle (Imagination, Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship). You’ll confront common creativity blockers (including fears and myths about AI) and practice curiosity, brainstorming, and storytelling using both human‑driven and AI‑powered approaches to design a more purposeful career and future.
In the final four weeks, the focus shifts to teams and organizations. You’ll examine how innovative companies use design thinking with AI to create novel products, services, and experiences. Through collaborative projects, you’ll gain hands‑on experience with empathy maps, personas, journey maps, AI‑assisted brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and storytelling. By the end of the program, you’ll walk away with a practical toolkit and repeatable exercises for combining human creativity with AI, enabling you to build innovative teams and apply these methods directly to real‑world work.
Required Courses For Certificate
Courses may be taken individually and in any order unless otherwise noted. If pursuing the certificate, all courses in the certificate program must be completed with a C/pass or better.
Why take this program?
After successful completion of this program, you will be able to:
- Explain how creativity works at the individual, team, and organizational levels, and leverage AI to accelerate creative and problem-solving processes.
- Build creative confidence by identifying and overcoming common barriers to imagination, innovation, and effective collaboration.
- Apply proven creativity and design thinking frameworks (including the Invention Cycle) and tools to generate, test, and refine meaningful ideas and solutions.
- Use AI strategically alongside human judgment to brainstorm, prototype, visualize, and communicate ideas with greater clarity, impact, and speed.
- Create and sustain a culture of creativity and psychological safety by developing an actionable plan to foster innovation across teams and the organization.
Program Benefits
This program equips managers, aspiring leaders, and creative professionals with the confidence, frameworks, and practical AI literacy needed to lead innovation responsibly in the age of AI. Participants learn how creativity works at the individual and team level, how to overcome common blockers such as perfectionism and fear of failure, and how to use AI as a collaborative “third teammate” rather than a replacement for human judgment.
Through hands-on use of proven frameworks like the Invention Cycle, design thinking, and rapid prototyping, learners apply new skills to real work challenges, strengthen storytelling and influence, and leave with a clear action plan to foster a more creative, experimental, and AI-ready culture within their teams or organizations..
Types of positions this program supports
- Managers and People Leaders
- Aspiring Leaders and High-Potential Employees
- Product Managers and Program Managers
- Marketing, Communications, and Brand Professionals
- HR, Learning & Development, and Organizational Design Professionals
- Innovation, Strategy, and Transformation Roles
- Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, and Founders
- Designers, Creatives, and Content Strategists
Career Insight for Strategy Managers:
Strategy Managers help organizations identify opportunities, navigate complexity, and turn ideas into actionable plans by blending analytical rigor with creative problem-solving. In an AI-enabled workplace, they use data, design thinking, and emerging technologies to accelerate insight while applying human judgment to manage risk and drive impact. With an average salary of $182,312, the role reflects strong demand for leaders who can combine strategic thinking, creativity, and AI & technological fluency.
Source: Indeed, 2026
Have a question about this program?
We’re here to help! Whether you want to explore your options or need help finding the right fit, our team is always ready to chat.
Give us a call at (541) 737-1500 or send us an email at cpe@oregonstate.edu. We’d love to hear from you!
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