What if...you discover the realm of possibilities. We'll explore how to flip problems into opportunities. It's possible! We'll share some proven techniques that work. Every mother, parent, entrepreneur, and intrapreneur needs these tools. We are the creators, the innovators, or just plain problem solvers. Don't accept the status quo. Let's explore how to shake things up for the better!

1. Discover the Realm of
Possibilities
Explore how to flip problems into opportunities
Presented Denise Reed

2. Event Sponsor

3. Meet our featured expert
Meet Mona Patel is the CEO & Founder of Motivate Design, a
user-centered design agency based in New York City. Motivate
Design helps clients discover customer needs and designs
solutions to meet those needs. In recent her book, Reframe: Shift
the Way you Work, Innovate and Think, Mona demonstrates how
her 8-step creative process can help companies innovate and
design simple, beautiful experiences. In addition to helping clients
and other Fortune 500 companies become unstuck, Mona is also
a teacher at Parsons, the New School for Design.

4. Lean In: See Problems As Opportunities

5. Discover the Realm of Possibilities
● What’s first? The exploration of possibility.
● What creates a shift?
● How will your possibilities change?

6. What’s first? The exploration of possibility.
● Define the opportunity for improvement
○ Include:
■ People
■ Resources
■ Process (how you currently do it/how it currently happens)
● Are there gaps contributing to or taking away from this opportunity to
improve?
○ Include:
■ People - training, different procedures
■ Resources - should they be different
■ Process - should this change

7. What creates a shift?
“Can’t is a mindset
that can be designed around.”
- Mona Patel

8. What creates a shift?
● Create a positive perspective:
○ Create a list of negative and think the opposite.
○ Ask, what if…
○ Ask, how might we...

9. What creates a shift?
The famous Rubin’s vase is a perfect example
of switching your perspective from
vases to faces.
Sometimes switching from negative to
positive means everything to creating opportunity,
which vase are you?

10. What creates a shift?
Always look for opportunity, so you can create it.

11. How will your possibilities change?
● What opportunity will you create?
● How can we help?
● What’s your greatest takeaway?

12. Presented by:
Denise Reed
www.DeniseReed.is
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