How an off-site in a Spiegeltent was a creative escape from the corporate circus

Let’s be honest, corporate off-sites usually don’t scream creativity. They often end up being more about stale conference rooms and less about stirring up real innovation. 

At PatientNotes, we’ve embraced remote working and have ditched the traditional offsite for quarterly “on-site”. The face-to-face connection dissolves any unnecessarily pent-up tension from using the wrong emojis facial expressions and other asynchronous working hazards.

Back in 2017, I was “Girl Geek in Residence” for NAB’s Connecting Women in Technology program, led by technology executive Dayle Stevens. At that time, design thinking capability was a toolkit for customer experience and digital design teams, and Dayle’s goal was to take it to everyone.