Basadur Applied Innovation is a research-based partner for organizations that want leadership development to produce more than awareness. For nearly 50 years, we have helped clients’ leaders and employees at every level build the innovative problem solving capabilities required to navigate complexity, uncover opportunities, and collaboratively deliver innovative results.
Our work combines rigorous scientific research, practical application, and tailored design so organizations can build a shared, actionable approach to problem solving and innovation that drives effectiveness.
Leadership Development is Changing
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to prepare leaders for the realities of modern organizations.
Many programs are:
- Built around disconnected modules rather than a unifying capability-building process
- Focused more on awareness and knowledge than on skill development and behavior change
- Separated from the real strategic and operational challenges leaders face
- Insufficient for helping leaders navigate complexity, uncertainty, and change effectively
Modern leadership development must go further.
- Anticipate and adapt to change in ways that create advantage
- Create new value, not just protect current performance
- Initiate change that reshapes markets and ways of working
- Lead teams through complex problem solving
- Foster innovation across functions and departments
- Compete effectively in global markets
The measure of leadership development is not what participants know, but their improved ability to solve problems, collaborate, and lead effective action across the organization.
Basadur Applied Innovation Develops Leaders Who Catalyze Change
At Basadur Applied Innovation, we strengthen leadership development programs through a research-based approach to innovative problem solving. The Basadur Profile helps leaders understand how they and others approach problem solving and innovation.
Building on that foundation, we develop leaders’ ability to navigate change, uncover opportunities, and move teams from ideas to action. The result is stronger leadership capability, greater adaptability, and improved organizational effectiveness.
Experience the foundation of your Leadership Development Capability. Complete your Basadur Profile for FREE and we’ll explore your unique thinking style, discuss new opportunities, and see how our structured innovation program can elevate your team’s performance.
Our Creative Problem Solving Process: Developed in Real-World Application and Validated by Scientific Research
At Basadur Applied Innovation, our creative problem solving process has been built through a rigorous cycle of real-world application and scientific validation. It did not begin as theory looking for a use. It emerged from working with practicing managers and organizational teams on important, complex business challenges.
We develop new tools and methods in practice, test them through field research with working professionals, and only then bring them into our work. Because what we do was developed in the field, it has always been shaped by the realities of organizational life: simplicity, speed, ease of use, and enough rigor to make a real difference.
Few, if any, firms combine the same depth of practitioner experience and scientific expertise in the same domain.
We bring decades of hands-on organizational work together with award-winning research focused on how innovative problem solving works in practice. The result is a validated approach with an unrivaled record of use in organizations, built for busy people solving real problems.
With the Basadur Innovation Profile, participants will:
- Discover unique insights into how they think and problem solve, allowing for insightful and actionable feedback with personal growth plans
- See strategic thinking more clearly as a developable process by understanding their own strengths and gaps in identifying new opportunities, connecting ideas and creating clarity amid complexity
- Gain a clearer understanding of how different people on a team think and contribute so they can better utilize cognitive diversity, manage team dynamics, and build high-performing teams
With Basadur Action-Learning Projects, participants will:
- Use the Basadur process on real organizational challenges that carry strategic importance, giving them the opportunity to apply what they have learned to work that is visible, relevant, and consequential
- Strengthen their ability to turn complexity into opportunity, align others around action, and move promising ideas toward innovative results
- Convert learning into tangible progress on important organizational issues, reinforcing their ability to apply creative problem solving where it matters most