Training and Speaking
Elevate your organization by empowering your team.
Invest in your team's potential for creativity, innovation, and problem solving. We’ll explore dynamic concepts and proven methods, and ignite new ways of thinking that lead to your team’s best work yet. Choose from existing topics or let me design a customized session for your group.
My standard topics help people unlock the power of possibility and empower them to take action. I’ve developed a series of topics appropriate for large and small groups. Your teams will walk away feeling excited and ready to implement what they’ve learned.
Standard Topics
Facilitation 101:
Elevate your team’s facilitation skills, preparing them to confidently guide collaborative meetings and facilitate discussion toward actionable outcomes.
The Power of Design Sprints:
Accelerate decision-making, foster collaborative problem-solving, and swiftly validate ideas.
Fundamentals of Human-Centered Design:
For teams that want to infuse their processes with human-centricity, ensuring their products and services resonate deeply with their key audience.
Unlocking Creativity:
Foster a more creative culture and foster an environment ripe for innovative thinking.
I also offer coaching 1-1 or small group coaching if you’re aiming to help someone in your organization learn to lead more collaborative and productive sessions. From workshop preparation to debrief, I’ll partner with your in-house facilitator so they feel supported throughout the process. They’ll leave with feedback and tools to step forward into their next workshop or Design Sprint more powerfully.
Why Me?
Design Sprint Expert:
An early adopter of the Design Sprint process, I started running sprints with product teams upon receiving an early copy of the book in 2016. I’ve since run Design Sprint trainings with John and Jake, authors of the Design Sprint book, and co-authored the Remote Design Sprint Guide with them at the start of the pandemic to help teams transition to remote quickly.
Diverse Experience:
My 17+ years leading cross-functional teams at varying levels inside of very large and very small organizations has enhanced my capacity to prepare teams to lead through even the most challenging dynamics.
A Supportive Environment:
I bring 20 years of study and practice in mindfulness to the way I facilitate groups. I value being fully present and attuned to the needs of the group and foster an environment of open communication through creating a safe and supportive space.
Nice things people have said
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Jackie Colburn is one of the absolute best facilitators I know, she’s an expert in the Design Sprint process, and we've had the opportunity to collaborate on multiple projects.
John Zeratsky, Co-author of Sprint
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The skills that participants learned during the workshop will be a game changer for us as a business. She has given our group the toolkit needed to drive innovation, effectively manage internal stakeholders, and identify when is the right time to have a Sprint.
Linda Massie & Neal Anderson, Medtronic
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Jackie has the gift of engaging people and making creative collaboration happen. Her session with our portfolio was energetic, easy-going and fun. Yet at the end of the session, we had some thoughtful and valuable outputs.
Marin Licina, Design Partner, Gradient Ventures