Elizabeth Long Lingo helps leaders to transform into catalysts of innovation, forge more creatively vibrant organizations, and co-create sustainable human-centered change.
Elizabeth Long Lingo helps leaders to transform into catalysts of innovation, forge more creatively vibrant organizations, and co-create sustainable human-centered change.
Researcher. Teacher. Catalyst.
A Harvard Business School PhD with two decades of consulting and intrapreneurship experience, Elizabeth Lingo helps leaders "get unstuck" and transform their people and possibilities.
Elizabeth Lingo offers a systematic, customized approach to building individual and organizational capacity for innovation and creative enterprise, with a special interest in working with women technologists, scientists, and engineers.
Learn how Elizabeth can help you re-imagine your campus experience--curricular and extra curricular--around social impact, design thinking, entrepreneurship, and innovative leadership.
Learn more about Elizabeth’s systematic approach to assessing and building fluency in 21st century innovative leadership capacities.
Learn more about Elizabeth’s systematic approach to assessing and building fluency in 21st century innovative leadership capacities.
HOW WELL CAN YOUR NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS:
Invent and imagine across disciplinary and cultural boundaries?
Engage others in their ideas and stories using an array of media?
Manage ambiguity arising in the collective creative process?
Navigate challenges to expertise and control?
Overcome resistance to change?
Integrate strategic design thinking into their work?
From launching social innovation labs and entrepreneurship initiatives to helping advance research on women's global leadership and work outcomes, Elizabeth has brought imagination, depth, and experience to a broad array of organizations and students.
From launching social innovation labs and entrepreneurship initiatives to helping advance research on women's global leadership and work outcomes, Elizabeth has brought imagination, depth, and experience to a broad array of organizations and students.
What are the challenges of fostering entrepreneurship at an all-women's liberal arts college?
As embedded practitioner at Mount Holyoke College, Elizabeth helped launch a local-global social innovation lab and entrepreneurship Initiative. She mentored 20 teams participating in the Draper Women’s Collegiate Entrepreneurship Competition at Smith College (up from 1 team in prior years). Twelve MHC teams made it to the semi-finals, and MHC teams won 2 of the top 3 awards!
How do we integrate design thinking in graduate leadership courses?
As a founding faculty member of the program, Elizabeth designed and teaches the lead course, Innovative Leadership, which emphasizes empathic listening and leading, integrative thinking and problem solving, user-centered design, rapid experimentation, harnessing networks of multi-disciplinary expertise, and negotiating change as key leadership and entrepreneurial capacities for the 21st century.
How do we build the creativity workshops for everyone on campus?
That was the motivation for the Curb Boot Camp--where over 600 faculty, staff and students worked side-by-side as they experience the joy, messiness, and trade-offs of creative practice. Rather than just listening and talking to experts about improvisation, data visualization, storytelling, or design thinking, participants immersed themselves in process—to gain fundamental insights to inspire and realize creative goals and collaborative work in their personal and professional lives.
How do we build the capacity of international Fulbright Scholars to harness their research to create change in the world? What is the potential of bringing these Scholars together around change making?
Elizabeth developed and taught customized multi-day Change Maker and Lab to Market workshops focused on Energy and the Environment; Technology and Global Health; and Social Entrepreneurship to over 300 students from around the globe.
How do we harness art and creative enterprise to tackle public health crises?
Working with novelist Alice Randall and the Vanderbilt Curb Scholars, Elizabeth successfully realized a kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and catalyzed a collective art project designed to take a “novel” approach to tackling diabetes among African American women. The project culminated in a public art performance at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Alabama, on March 3, 2013.
How we design a first-of-its-kind honors scholarship program in arts, culture, creative enterprise and public leadership?
The Curb Scholars program emphasizes fluency across private and public sectors, commitment to service, and a critical approach to decisions affecting the nation's creative and cultural life. Through weekly creative practice workshops and leadership salons, internships and projects, Scholars build portfolios that demonstrate their ability to solve problems and advance innovation in their local and global communities.
How do we attract and retain top millenial talent in the Pioneer Valley?
In collaboration with MHC's Career Development Center, Elizabeth launched the "Problem Solving" Career Jam to bring together local entrepreneurs, recruiters, heads of chamber of commerce, and MHC students to generate solutions to this pressing regional concern.
How do we develop capacity for arts entrepreneurship and creative enterprise?
As part of this wonderful national conference, Elizabeth led a two-day workshop on new venture creation and arts entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s 4th Biennial Pave Symposium on Entrepreneurship and the Arts, in collaboration with the UW-Madison Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
Is it possible to develop a Collective Action Agenda for the Performing Arts Field?
Imagine bringing over 3,500 artists and performing arts leaders together to develop a collective action agenda for the field. Elizabeth co-led a multi-method research study of this five-day extravaganza, guiding a multi-disciplinary group of 10 graduate students in a “swarm ethnography,” and developing a culminating action report for the field.