20 Free Courses to Help You Bridge the Innovation Gap

More than 40 innovators joined me for a recent workshop addressing a challenge that shows up across academic disciplines and industry sectors: bridging the Innovation Gap.

That’s the gap in understanding AND caring that separates you from your audience.

You stand on one side of the gap with deep expertise regarding the problem you’re addressing, a passion for solving it, and technical knowledge of the solution you envision.

On the other side of the gap stands your audience, which probably doesn’t share your view of the problem, your determination to solve it, or your technical knowledge of your proposed solution.

Communication is the key to bridging the chasm, and it’s ongoing work. As an innovator, you probably find yourself building (and rebuilding) bridges repeatedly.

My hope for this newsletter is that it gives you insights to help you become a better bridge-builder—more effective, more efficient, and more confident.

Yet I know that the reflections I share every two weeks aren’t enough to help you truly excel at the craft of innovation communication.

And that’s my ultimate ambition: to empower you with insights and tools that will elevate your communication craft. To do this, you need more than newsletters and more than live workshops, which may or may not fit into your busy schedule.

So… over the past few months, the Clarity Connect team has been building.

We’ve been converting our archive of workshop content into short, self-paced courses. Each ⚡️Flash Course takes less than an hour to complete and includes a worksheet to help you reflect on what you’re learning and apply it to your own situation. 

These eLearning courses are FREE until the end of 2026, so I invite you to check them out today.

 Here’s the list of 16 courses that are ready for you now:

1. Writing Winning Grant Applications
2. Strategic Storytelling for Knowledge Mobilization
3. Crafting an Impactful Research Impact Story
4. Academic to Workplace Writing
5. E is for email engagement
6. A Skeptic's Approach to Using AI in Knowledge Mobilization
7. Three Pillars of Knowledge Mobilization
8. Give Your Presentations More Pizzazz
9. Designing Learning That Sticks
10. Transform Your Scholarship Into Thought Leadership
11. Networking with Community and Industry
12. Crafting transformative narratives
13. Overcoming apathy with stories of hope
14. Working with Your Audience as Co-Creators
15. How to Transform Research into a Compelling Business Case
16. Communicating Change in Healthcare
    

Here are four other courses coming soon:

1. Data storytelling
2. Strategic communication planning
3. Becoming a Visual Thinker
4. How to Do Customer Discovery

What additional resources would you like to see? Please DM me with any suggestions you have as we have plenty of building left to do!