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Self-Innovation

Innovate
Yourself.

What if you applied the innovation process to the most important thing — yourself?

Innovate Yourself is the foundational idea that the same mindset, methods, and processes that drive breakthroughs in organizations can be turned inward — toward your own growth, leadership, and life. It's not a single program. It's a way of seeing yourself and your future differently.

Designed by Darin Eich, Ph.D.

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Innovation Mindset See yourself as someone who can grow and innovate
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Innovation Process Apply structured methods to your own development
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Leadership & Personal Growth Develop yourself as a leader from the inside out
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Design Thinking Your Career & Life The Create Your Path program — one expression of this

The same process that drives breakthroughs in organizations can be turned inward — toward your own growth and future.


Innovate Yourself is a foundational concept developed by Darin Eich, Ph.D. after 20+ years helping organizations, universities, and leaders use innovation to solve real challenges. The idea is simple but powerful: the mindset, methods, and processes of innovation don't have to stop at the organization's door. They apply to you — your leadership, your development, your life.

Innovation Mindset
Adopt the belief that you are someone who can grow, change, and actively shape your future.
Reflective Practice
Use structured reflection to surface your strengths, values, and experiences as raw material for your path.
Design & Ideation
Apply proven design thinking methods — envisioning, questioning, ideating — to your own future.
Action & Launch
Move from clarity to strategy — build a real action plan and launch your path with confidence.

Create Your Path

6-Module Program


Design Thinking for Your Career & Life
Designed by Darin Eich, Ph.D. · Used at Dartmouth College and universities worldwide

Create Your Path is the program that puts the Innovate Yourself concept into practice. Designed by Darin Eich, Ph.D., it has been used at Dartmouth College and other universities worldwide — helping students, professionals, and individuals work through a structured 6-workshop process that uses design thinking and innovation methods to help you reflect on your story, identify your strengths, and design a clear direction forward.

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Key Experiences, Tools & Resources
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Visual Story & Hero's Journey
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Strengths & Passionate Interests
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Artifacts & Strengths-Interests-Values
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Envision Challenge & Create Ideas
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Analysis, Concepts & Launch

For anyone ready to grow intentionally.

Professionals & Leaders
If you're navigating a career transition, developing as a leader, or looking to apply innovation thinking to your own growth, Innovate Yourself gives you the framework and tools to do it.
Students & Emerging Leaders
Used at university programs including Dartmouth College and others worldwide, the approach helps students and early-career individuals discover their direction through structured self-reflection and innovation methods designed by Darin Eich, Ph.D.
Organizations & Programs
Bring self-innovation thinking into your leadership development programs, high-potential cohorts, or university curriculum — customized and delivered with Darin Eich, Ph.D.

Related programs & resources.

Ready to innovate yourself?

Whether you're a student finding your direction, a professional navigating your next chapter, or a leader investing in your own growth — the innovation process starts with you.