Training Overview

Innovation Sprints fast-track bold ideas from concept to execution

The Big Idea

Organizations that can ideate, test, and implement solutions quickly have a competitive edge. Sprint Facilitation Training equips your team with the mindset, tools, and skills to run high-impact innovation sprints—helping you solve complex challenges, validate ideas faster, and make smarter decisions.

Inspired by Google Ventures’ Design Sprints, this workshop is perfect for teams looking to accelerate innovation and for leaders who want to use sprint facilitation as a powerful tool for strategic problem-solving.

Learn the Art of Sprint Facilitation
& Drive Innovation at Speed

The 5 Phase Innovation Sprint

Prepare to Sprint

Before diving into problem-solving, teams need clarity and alignment. This phase focuses on defining the challenge, setting goals, and gathering critical insights. Through expert interviews, problem framing, and structured ideation, participants map the problem space and establish a shared vision, ensuring the sprint starts with focus and purpose.
Decide + Storyboard

With a wealth of ideas generated, it’s time to narrow the focus. This phase guides teams through structured decision-making exercises, such as Heat Map voting and Speed Critiques, to select the most promising solution. The chosen concept is then transformed into a detailed storyboard—a step-by-step plan that serves as a blueprint for the prototype.
Prototype + Refine

Rapid experimentation is key to innovation. In this phase, teams bring their concept to life by developing a functional yet simplified prototype. Emphasizing speed over perfection, participants collaborate to build, iterate, and refine their prototype, ensuring it realistically represents the envisioned solution and is ready for user testing.
Test + Collect

Real user feedback is the heart of the sprint process. This phase involves testing the prototype with actual users, observing interactions, and collecting valuable insights. Through structured interviews and usability tests, teams validate their assumptions, uncover pain points, and gather actionable data to refine or pivot their solution.
Reflect + Report

A sprint’s value extends beyond the final prototype. This phase focuses on synthesizing key learnings, documenting takeaways, and planning next steps. Teams assess results, report findings to stakeholders, and outline how to implement or iterate on their solution. Reflection ensures that insights gained from the sprint drive meaningful action and long-term innovation.

What’s inside the training?

This hands-on, high-energy experience will teach you:

✅ How to design & facilitate a high-impact sprint: From prep to execution
✅ Core sprint methodologies: Including brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and testing
✅ How to align cross-functional teams quickly: Reduce friction, boost collaboration
✅ Best practices from top innovation companies: Learn what works (and what doesn’t!)
✅ Real-world application: Work on a live business challenge for immediate impact

At the end of this training, participants will have the confidence, skills, and tools to run their own sprints and drive innovation inside their organizations.

All workshop participants receive a copy of The Sprint Handbook to continue their learning and practice far beyond the day!

Learn more about The Sprint Handbook

Customized for Your Team

This training is designed for teams and leaders who want to:
✅ Solve business problems faster: No more endless meetings, just rapid progress
✅ Reduce risk & validate ideas early: Test assumptions before investing resources
✅ Develop in-house sprint facilitation skills: Train your team to run high-impact sprints
✅ Break down silos & boost collaboration: Align cross-functional teams effectively
✅ Get unstuck & spark innovation: Move from ideas to action with confidence
Perfect for innovation teams, product managers, strategists, facilitators, and business leaders looking to supercharge their problem-solving processes.
🚀 Faster, more effective decision-making: Cut through the noise and get to solutions quickly
🚀 Proven sprint frameworks: Apply the same methods used by Google, Airbnb, and top startups
🚀 Better team alignment & collaboration: Turn diverse perspectives into action
🚀 Higher success rates for new ideas & products: Minimize risk and maximize impact
🚀 In-house facilitation capabilities: Empower your team to run their own sprints confidently
By the end of this training, you won’t just understand innovation sprints—you’ll know how to lead them like a pro.
We offer customized formats to fit your team’s needs:
💡 Full Sprint Experience (5 Days) – A guided Google Ventures-style sprint solving a live challenge
💡 Sprint Facilitation Bootcamp (2 Days) – Intensive facilitation training for leaders & teams
💡 Sprint Fundamentals (1 Day) – An introduction to sprint principles & methodologies
💡 Virtual or In-Person – Available on-site or remotely for flexible learning
Want a custom format? Let’s design a sprint experience that fits your business.

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About Pattie Belle

🚀 Experienced Sprint Facilitator: Bringing years of expertise in Design Thinking & Innovation Sprints
🔬 Hands-On & Actionable: Not just theory, but real-world sprint application
🎯 Customized for Your Business: Tailored to your industry, challenges, and goals
🛠️ Practical Tools & Frameworks: Walk away with sprint templates & facilitation strategies
🔥 High-Energy & Engaging Training: Fun, immersive, and immediately impactful
Pattie Belle is a fierce advocate for human creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. She believes that every individual and team holds an untapped well of ingenuity—they just need the right tools and mindset to unlock it.
With decades of experience in creative strategy, facilitation, and Design Thinking, she is passionate about helping organizations break through stagnation, embrace uncertainty, and turn obstacles into opportunities.
Her mission? To empower leaders and teams to think differently, solve better, and create a future where innovation is not just a buzzword—but a way of working and thriving.

About Pattie Belle’s Workshops

Sprint Facilitation Training helps companies:
✐ Speed up decision-making: From months to days
✐ Reduce costly project failures: By validating ideas before full investment
✐ Improve team collaboration: Breaking down silos and aligning stakeholders
✐ Increase product success rates: By focusing on customer-tested solutions
✐ Empower teams to drive innovation: Building in-house facilitation skills
🚀 Bottom line? Sprints create real business value—faster, cheaper, and smarter.
When companies move fast and test ideas quickly, they outperform their competitors. Sprint Facilitation Training empowers teams to solve problems faster, reduce risk, and launch winning ideas with confidence resulting in measurable business impact.
📊 Google Ventures reports that Sprint teams validate ideas in just 5 days saving months of wasted development time.
📊 Harvard Business Review found that structured innovation processes, like Sprints, increase new product success rates by 85%.
📊 IBM cut development time by 50% and saved millions in R&D costs using Sprint methodologies.
Most training sessions teach theory. This workshop is all about doing.
✔️ Hands-on, action-oriented approach: No passive lectures, just real-world application
✔️ Custom-tailored for your team: We solve YOUR business challenges, not just generic case studies
✔️ Immediate takeaways: Your team will leave with real solutions and a roadmap for implementation
✔️ The Sprint Handbook: Each participant gets a copy of the book to keep using what they learn
This is not a sit-and-listen workshop—it’s a high-energy, interactive sprint that shifts mindsets and drives results.
Every organization is unique, and so is every workshop. Pattie Belle takes a highly tailored approach to ensure that each session directly addresses the specific challenges, goals, and dynamics of your team.
Here’s how she customizes the experience:
🔍 Discovery & Deep Dive: Before the workshop, she meets with key stakeholders to understand:
- Your business challenges & objectives
- The team’s pain points & aspirations
- Any specific case studies or real-world problems to tackle
🛠 Tailored Content & Activities:
- The exercises, examples, and discussions are curated to be relevant to your industry and team’s experience level
- If your team is new to Innovation Sprints, she’ll focus on foundational methods
- If you’re experienced, she’ll guide you through advanced problem-solving techniques
🚀 Interactive & Hands-On Format:
- Your team will work on real problems, not hypothetical ones
- Custom-designed brainstorming, prototyping, and testing exercises
- Emphasis on applying Innovation Sprints immediately to see results
📍 Flexible Delivery Options:
- In-person, virtual, or hybrid formats to fit your needs
- Half-day, full-day, or multi-day intensives depending on depth of training desired
- Optional follow-up coaching & strategy sessions to sustain the momentum
Bottom line? Pattie Belle ensures that your team walks away with practical, immediately usable solutions—not just theory. Each session is designed to be engaging, impactful, and 100% relevant to your organization.

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🚀 Step 3: Customize, confirm, and get ready for a transformational session!
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What participants say:

Process, steps, and methods

What was the most valuable takeaway from this workshop for you? Embracing ambiguity • Fail fast/Fail often • Making 3D prototypes is thought-provoking • That my org should listen more to consumers • Linking the process to practical steps and methods • Get out of the comfort zone • Not be complacent about challenges • The need for creativity in improving elder care • Allowed us to work together and have results to display! • That we can all do design thinking • Knowing that its ok to express ideas on paper first, especially being in a meeting with all extroverts • Hands-on is always a great way of learning • Kept us engaged and forced us to go outside our comfort zone • It will help me and my team with challenges we are currently dealing with • Excellent workshop! ~ Design Thinking @ LeadingAge Massachusetts Leadership Academy
Managing diverse groups and needs

Pattie Belle assisted our medical start-up on several occasions, including a half-day in-person group facilitation as well as several online zoom group sessions. Her exercises and counsel provided us with an invaluable resource to focus us on the tasks before us. She did so with good humor and managed a diverse group with many different needs in a way that helped unite us and productively reach for the goals that we sought. I am thankful to Pattie Belle for her wise counsel and skillful approach. RK, CT, USA (Prosocial Vision)
Chaos into creativity

With eyes, arms, and heart open wide, Pattie Belle entered my shared studio environment and proclaimed it a safe space to be creative for us all. To be vulnerable and intentional. She embraced the class of 25 in its entirety and was able to help us navigate the chaos of ideas that continuously bounce around our heads. Myself, as an artist, I am full of ideas, and with Pattie Belle‘s guidance, I was able to organize them in a way that would then allow me to see them all at one time, easily. She gave me the space to analyze each idea through thinking, visuals, and notetaking. She then gave us tools to execute these ideas with a workflow that was conducive to my style. She has given me a helpful tool that I use continuously. MH, CT, USA (Life Mapping)
Perspective and priorities

I attended a Life Mapping workshop and left feeling organized, motivated, and like I had a much better perspective on my priorities. Pattie Belle is thorough, organized, and intentional in her workshop planning and facilitation. She thoughtfully guided the attendees through the 'territories' of our lives - personal + professional; mind, body, spirit; physical, and emotional. It was SO helpful to think about each of these areas individually and find my priorities and balance. I left the workshop with a new tool to use whenever I am feeling overwhelmed and in need of a pause to organize my life. This workshop absolutely applies to anyone and everyone - I highly recommend it. CM, CT, USA (Life Mapping)
Professional, empathetic, and thoughtful

PB did two sessions with our group that is in the planning stages of opening a mental health wellness center. She was extremely professional, accommodating, empathetic, and productive. She asked thoughtful, introspective questions to hone us in on what we needed to address in a thoughtful way, and the material she presented was holistic and relevant. I would highly recommend her! RM, CT, USA (Prosocial Vision)