The LeadingAge Solution Studio brought together cohorts of a dozen C-suite leaders from the aging services sector and guided them through a 9-month process to enable disruptive innovation.

Leaders know the big problems holding back their sector and their organization. Yet they are often not resourced to initiate, scale, or maintain full-blown innovation efforts. Even if organizational leaders are fairly well resourced they may wonder, ‘Is it best for my organization and team to go it alone?’

That is why we worked with LeadingAge and Quantified Ventures to offer the Solution Studio innovation platform to LeadingAge members. The Solution Studio provided aging services executives an immersive innovation experience working with a select group of peers and cross-sector experts to build real-world solutions to challenges facing the sector. Participants get a hands-on experience that reveals what to do and what not to do when pursuing innovation efforts in their organization and with partners, all while developing a novel solution.

One of the Solution Studio cohorts resulted in the creation of Dorvie. A second cohort produced a concept currently being pursued by LeadingAge.