Human Centered Design for Social Innovation

Lean Start-Up Facilitator

Inholland University of Applied Sciences

NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming 

thesprint.agency

studio.why

Business Innovation x Service Design x Workshop Facilitator

Urbanize Hub is a worldwide community,  a collaborative platform of ideas, opinions, projects and news about smart cities, urban planning and urban development. We aim to create a worldwide community by bringing together responsible citizens, designers, architects, academics and experts interested and involved in the discussion around future cities. Our platform is for dreamers, believers and achievers, and for all of those who think they can live in a better world. It is for smart people who like to think outside the box and believe in the future of sustainable urban development and technology. We are connected by our shared knowledge, our dedication to sustainability, and our passion for building a better future.

UrbanizeHub

Design Thinking Facilitator 

Innovating Society delivers innovation trainings and workshops with the goal of finding the problem-solution fit and product-market fit in early stage startups. Our team consists of a business consultant, designer and marketer - working together to find the best solutions to bring your product to market with low costs using growth hacking and lean start-up methods. As part of our trainings we offer certifications in Design Thinking, Trend Spotting, Growth Hacking, Lean Start-up.

Innovating Society

Founder, Trainer, Innovation Consultant 

Leading innovation trainings and workshops for the innovation team of UBB, PhD students and bachelor students with the goal of finding commercialization opportunities and inspire an innovation mindset.

Universitatea „Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca

External Innovation Expert

Leading a 10-month incubator for innovation in the home care sector in Romania. Includes designing and facilitating weekly workshops and mentoring for multi-disciplinary teams.

D-Care Labs Project

Design Thinking Facilitator

Offering Trainings and Experiences that teach an entrepreneurial mindset in organizations so that they can adapt to the fast changing environment and innovate in a natural way. We help you experience the following:
• Dutch Design Thinking methodology
• Lego Serious Play introduction
• Visual Thinking
• Facilitating creative processes
• Empathetic research
• Trendwatching
• Pitching

STUDIO.WHY

Innovation Partner

Heraldist & Wondermarks
Innovation. Branding. Communication.

On the lookout for Dutch companies (that provide consumer-facing products and social projects) to transform them into iconic brands with the help of the following services:

★ Brand visual identity
★ Packaging design
★ Brand strategy
★ Integrated campaign

Heraldist & Wondermarks™ is a partnership between multi-awarded senior creatives & strategists from all around the world. We are Dreamers. Makers. Troublemakers. 
Every day we’ll push you out of your comfort zone. We'll inspire you to think bigger.
We can’t promise that it's going to be easy. But we can promise that it will be worth it.
It will completely reinvent your business.

Heraldist & Wondermarks™ is the first and only advertising group in Europe to publicly commit 10% of our time to pro-bono, creating social campaigns that can make our little blue planet a better place.

Heraldist & Wondermarks

New Business Development

From my passion of trendwatching, I have started to write a blog while researching global trends and more specific industry trends from the payments industry, including fintech and blockchain.

Global Trendspotting

Trendwatching 

• Ran an open 2-day workshop for creating innovation in agriculture
• Applied and received a grant from the EU for the project
• Arranged location, speakers, logistics, awards sponsors
• Became featured on local online magazines and television for free
• Received 200+ applicants on the program with no advertising budget
• Worked in a team of 3 for facilitating a 2-day workshop for 25 people
• Event ended with 5 teams pitching their startup ideas in agriculture industry and one of them applying for Rockstart incubator MD

Accelerocket

Organizer & Innovation Facilitator

• Created a mobile payment solution that added value to shoppers, merchants and business
• Created a gamification system for customer retention and boosting sales
• Created an innovation report documenting the process with all the findings from research and action plan for implementation
• Analyzed the competitive landscape, identifying threats and opportunities
• Wrote a blog documenting all the new trends in the payments industry and consumer behavior
• Collaborated with sales, marketing and developers to generate and execute new product features
• Interviewed merchants to identify unmet needs and expectations

European Merchant Services

Product Innovation in Payments

• Launched an innovative product on the market with success
• Pivoted the business multiple times
• Aquisition, branding, marketing, sales, product development
• Created an e-commerce website (Wordpress)
• Online marketing (Google Tag Manager, Analytics, Mouseflow)
• Social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest)
• Talked to customers to find new opportunities for product improvement
• Finalist in pitching at European Entrepreneur Awards
• Participated in different markets and fairs to do sales
• Worked directly with a product designer

Tudor MIHAI