The Innovator Community Expansion Initiative

About the Innovator Community Expansion Initiative

The Innovator Community Expansion Initiative (ICEI) focuses on cultivating an inclusive community at Mass General Brigham. Its mission is to grow and diversify the pool of innovators and offer developmental opportunities for women and diverse faculty and leaders.

ICEI employs a data-driven and unique approach to directly impact its target population. ICEI focuses on understanding the barriers to innovation and designing tailored interventions to achieve meaningful outcomes. It has two over-arching goals:

• Increase the output of commercially actionable and patient-centric innovation by growing and diversifying the innovator community
• Provide professional development for diverse leaders to build their skills as innovators, board members and commercial collaborators

Educational programs and resources

Commercialization and inclusive leadership program

A structured one-day program on commercialization application and inclusive leadership for new and early innovators. This supports ICEI’s goal of growing the innovator community and providing tools and resources to drive excellence in commercial outcomes.

Participants:

• Early-career clinicians, researchers, and other health care professionals with a focus on women and diversity
• Individuals who are motivated to start their commercialization journey, have not yet executed a license at Mass General Brigham, and want to be a part of the innovator community

Pilot objectives:

• Provide understanding of organizational resources and networks to foster commercialization at Mass General Brigham
• Develop and foster self-awareness, influencing, and entrepreneurial skills
• Support participants to see themselves as innovators who can lead in a complex environment
• Encourage participants to not just develop opportunities for themselves, but to influence others at Mass General Brigham

Information about the application process for our upcoming cohort (March 2024) will be available soon.

Development, networking, and advancement opportunities

Aimed at senior clinical, research and executive leaders with a focus on women and building diversity, the Inclusive Board Advancement Program is designed to provide the education, knowledge and networking experience that will allow the participants to develop skills complementary to their clinical skills and expertise.