Sally Dominguez is an Innovation Activator. As a multi-award-winning Inventor, Adventurer, Journalist and Educator, Sally has unique experience practicing, observing, teaching and advocating for innovation. Sally has updated Design Thinking with her ADVENTUROUS THINKING methodology, designed to promote the agile mindset needed for consistently innovative practices. No longer is design thinking reactive. Using the Five Lens tools to alternately converge and proliferate thinking, ADVENTUROUS THINKING enables users to think outside their default "expert" neural pathways, and re-ignite the curious mindset that is the key to consistent innovation. Above all, ADVENTUROUS THINKING results in growth: personal, professional and company-wide.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING has been used internationally by the Shenzhen government, Genentech, Sandisk, Clif Bar and other corporates, runs every semester as a workshop at Stanford and was presented as part of the SXSW Frugal Innovation panel. Sally has taught ADVENTUROUS THINKING as a means to integrate innovation into the Australian school curriculum for the Association of Independent Schools and the Catholic Schools Office.
In March 2017 Sally developed her enhanced STEM learning initiative SYSTEMIC - the Synergy of STEM with Innovation & Creative Communication. SYSTEMIC is a free access inverted biomimicry model now in use at NSW and NorCal schools. Sally's passion is activating the creative and innovative potential of others.
ADVENTUROUS THINKING has been used internationally by the Shenzhen government, Genentech, Sandisk, Clif Bar and other corporates, runs every semester as a workshop at Stanford and was presented as part of the SXSW Frugal Innovation panel. Sally has taught ADVENTUROUS THINKING as a means to integrate innovation into the Australian school curriculum for the Association of Independent Schools and the Catholic Schools Office.
In March 2017 Sally developed her enhanced STEM learning initiative SYSTEMIC - the Synergy of STEM with Innovation & Creative Communication. SYSTEMIC is a free access inverted biomimicry model now in use at NSW and NorCal schools. Sally's passion is activating the creative and innovative potential of others.
Innovation is her touchstone. Helping others consistently innovate is her mission.
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Sally's experience is steeped in innovative practice and innovative commentary. She judged invention on ABC TV’s New Inventors for six years, she is an ambassador for Engineers Without Borders Australia, and in 2012 she was named one of Advance Australia’s “50 for the Future” entrepreneurs in the USA. Sally has won seven international awards for her innovative products and her work is held in the Powerhouse Museum.
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Sally is an education & product innovator with six international awards for design & sustainability
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Architect of ADVENTUROUS THINKING, updated Design Thinking for Unprecedented Growth
An Australian inventor and designer now living in the USA, Sally teaches creative thinking and design, and is passionate about design and maker thinking in education and business.
Innovation is difficult to 'teach'. I was very skeptical at the beginning of the course as how useful it would be for me (being from a design background myself). Sally hit the ground running from episode 1 and accelerated as we went along.
Stanford Student, Winter 2015
Stanford Student, Winter 2015
Speaking on an Agile Mindset at SCSW 2016
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Judging Car of the Year for Wheels magazine
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Faciliating at Link Festival 2015
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“Sally was humorous, very entertaining and was perfect for the event. Her intelligence and quick wit was a hit with delegates.... Her preparation for the event was brilliant”. Karen Relph, Engineers Australia Northern Division
The guests at the event were full of praise for your impressive performance and your ability to engage with the audience. You were admired for your role as MC and ensuring the night flowed, which was heightened with your quick-witted humour.
Jamie Penrose, Engineers Australia
Jamie Penrose, Engineers Australia
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 Sally moderating the Nuclear Debate between Barry Brook and Ian Lowe on the first day of the Green Cities conference in Melbourne. |
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