About
Values Centered Innovation Inc.
Since its inception, VCI has been known as the “What’s Next?” provider of programs and assessments for enabling innovation with every person, every job, every day. We balance inner transformation with mastering new competencies, while integrating broadminded mental models, emotional intelligence, and good character values throughout the innovation process.
You could call our approach “Conscious Innovation” or “Human Centered Innovation” – simple terms that compel us to transform our mindset, processes, and culture for innovation. As an individual, you can take advantage of VCI’s approach to bolster your innovation skills and experience greater meaning, job performance, impact, collaboration, and career fulfillment. As a leader, you can fulfill your strategies for thriving within today’s global complexity.
For us, innovation is a pro-active, conscious act of co-creating your future. That’s our passion and purpose in everything we do. Each of our programs, self-assessments, and analytics is designed to build the self-awareness, self-esteem, and confidence it takes to be, think and act innovatively in everyday work.
The VCI approach puts the knowledge, skills, power, and responsibility for innovation into the hands of people throughout the organization based on common language, understanding, processes, and tools for innovation that are relevant and practical cross-functionally and cross-culturally.
Why Choose VCI? We integrate and mobilize the cross-functional innovation priorities of Executive Sponsors, HR/OD, and BU leaders. Clients describe us as authentic, knowledgeable, responsive, practical, trusted, and invaluable. Our approach is uniquely focused on conscious human-centered innovation as we support you in 5 ways to achieve your strategic priorities and be an Awesome Place to Innovate®
- Strengthening your executive sponsorship of innovation
- Transforming your culture for innovation
- Developing your leaders for innovation
- Empowering your teams for customer-focused innovation
- Engaging your employees to innovate in everyday work
"VCI provides elegant, human-centered solutions for learning and enabling innovation. Whether it is preparing leaders to set the strategy around innovation, or equipping managers to implement programs for innovation, or enabling employees to apply innovation to their daily work, VCI has it covered!"
Kent Wrenn, Director of Talent Management, Burgess Norton Manufacturing
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Articles by Debra and William Miller
Debra Miller and William Miller have dedicated their careers to enabling “conscious innovation”. Debra draws from her experience as an IT executive and business coach, while William completed his tenure as Head of Innovation Management at the Stanford Research Institute. Together, they balance inner transformation with mastering new competencies for bringing out the innovative best with “every person, every job, every day.” Read more
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Average rating 5
VCI’s approach helped to create the mindset, develop the skillset and provide the toolset we needed to move innovation forward as an organization.
The BeThinkAct™ process allows me to be nimble in my approach and yet ensures we don’t miss important steps along the way. Just as importantly, the user experience has always be...
VCI is an outstanding partner! While VCI has deep expertise and well defined solutions, they remain nimble and flexible in their approach to help us get where we want to go.