Catherine Louis
Catherine Louis
Founder, Global Agile Consulting, CLL-Group, LLC
Catherine Louis is a Certified Scrum Trainer®, Certified Reinvention Professional, independent Agile coach, founder of CLL-Group.com, leader of AgileRTP, and co-founder of PoDojo.com. Her focus is on Product Strategy, lean innovation, and Business Agility: nurturing an innovation culture with teams who can rapidly sense and respond. As a product coach, trainer, facilitator, and speaker, she designs playful, hands-on experiences that help teams tackle complex challenges, uncover hidden opportunities, and create meaningful outcomes. Catherine is passionate about using connection, curiosity, and experimentation to help people solve problems in new ways. She is also a volunteer with over 20 years as an SAR II and K9 trainer and handler with Wake Canine Search and Rescue.
The Power of While: Using Purposeful Constraints to Reveal Hidden Connections
Many design challenges ask us to optimize for a single outcome, yet innovation often happens at the intersection of goals, not in the optimization of just one.
In this playful workshop participants will practice "The Power of While." Working in small teams and using a creative "while" constraint, we will explore how connecting unrelated goals can reveal hidden opportunities. Along the way we will practice making connections that are often considered separately, uncovering overlooked stakeholders and generating unexpected ideas, transforming ordinary design challenges into opportunities for more creative human-centered solutions.
Participants will learn a technique they can immediately apply to UX challenges, product or service design, innovation workshops, and everyday problem-solving.
