Leadership & Social Innovation Conference, Riyadh
In Partnership with NYU Stern's Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing
per student
What Is Leadership & Social Innovation Conference?
Discover practical tools for social innovation and realise the impact one person can make.
Platform to Transform Your Ideas into Impact
Turn big ideas into real-world impact at the Leadership and Social Change Innovation Conference, where passion meets action. In partnership with NYU Stern's initiative on purpose and flourishing, BRE brings this transformative experience to India for the first time.
A Dynamic 5-Day Journey to Change & Lead
Led by Dustin Liu, this hands-on workshop uses design thinking to turn your ideas into impactful projects aligned with the UN SDGs, building skills for real-world change.
Meet Your Mentor
Meet Dustin Liu, a Taiwanese-American and proud New Yorker passionate about helping students thrive. As Senior Associate Director at NYU Stern’s Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing (IPF), he leads programs, builds partnerships, and helps students align their goals with a bigger purpose. He’s taught design thinking at Stanford University, helping students tackle life’s big questions and create meaningful paths forward. Dustin has also worked at top schools like Cornell, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Chicago, bringing together diverse ideas to inspire and empower students to think big.
Modules: What will you learn?
Module 1: Setting the Foundation
- Community Building & Container Setting
- Creativity Warm-Up (Late Nite Art)
- Introduction to UN SDGs
- Localizing SDGs
- Introduction to Design Thinking
- Design Sprint
- Defining Final Project
Module 2: Leadership Theory x Practice
- Strengths-Based Leadership
- Conflict Styles
- Adaptive Leadership
- Designing for Behavioral Change
- Practical Wrap-Up
- Takeaways To Guide Your Project Development
Module 3: Developing the Innovation
- Designing for Social Change
- Primer on Innovation Development
Module 4: Crafting Ideas into Prototypes
- Empathy
- Articulating the Problem
- Brainstorming for Prototype
- Rapid Prototyping
- Work Time on Innovations
- Peer Feedback
Module 5: Final Showcase
- How to Pitch
- Work Time
- Pitch Presentations to Expert Panel & Feedback
- Closing Celebrations & Certificate Distribution