Author Archives: Darin Eich

About Darin Eich

Darin Eich is the author of Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs and has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Darin is also the president and co-founder of BrainReactions and InnovationTraining.org. Darin gives speeches and can be hired to help your institution facilitate, create, and develop innovation programs, courses, retreats, and even conduct assessment or coach staff on developing leadership programs. Visit ProgramInnovation to see for yourself or email darin@programinnovation.com.

The innovation opportunity is to improve your technology literacy

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Darin Eich

This sixth grader, Thomas Suarez, gave a TED Talk. For me that alone stands out. How many 6th graders do you see doing TED Talks? He develops IPhone apps. His most popular one is called “Bustin Jieber.” He created it … Continue reading →

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Resource: Student Leadership Programs Knowledge Community from NASPA

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Darin Eich

As we’ve been spreading the word about the pre-release sampler version of my leadership development book, I’ve been identifying many of the social media resources for leadership educators. NASPA has a couple of resources on Facebook for people interested in … Continue reading →

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Leadership Program Resource: The Social Change Model of Leadership Development

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Darin Eich

The Social Change Model of Leadership Development is a popular model in use on college campuses. Susan Komives shares some backstory and description about this model with the 7 C values + Change.

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Leadership Development Professional Resource: Association of Leadership Educators

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Darin Eich

Many leadership development association members have helped me to develop my upcoming book, Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs. I have built a sampler version for leadership educators that myself and some colleagues have been … Continue reading →

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How to Find Keywords or Themes using an Online Word Frequency Analysis Tool

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Darin Eich

I’ve been looking for a free online tool to help identify keywords, tags, or themes in text. I discovered an amazing website called Textalyser that helps you to analyze the frequency of keywords. This is a great tool for starting … Continue reading →

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Innovation and Creativity Articles and Videos on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Darin Eich

Be sure to connect with me on Facebook and Twitter where I share excellent innovation and creativity articles and videos. I’m always reading articles from great sources like FastCompany and Harvard Business Review. I’m also scouring YouTube and TedTalks for … Continue reading →

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3 simple strategies from the pros: How to title your blog posts and articles

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Darin Eich

We need titles for many things: ideas, concepts, images, tweets, social media and blog posts, articles, reports, and books. In an earlier blog post I shared some insights from my research on bestselling nonfiction books for how to create better … Continue reading →

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Curiosity colons: Learning how to title from best selling books

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Darin Eich

What can we learn from how best selling non-fiction books are titled to help us title our own ideas and messages so that people understand our ideas and want to act on them? I’ve been thinking about this lately. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Self-Innovation: Using 5 Innovator’s DNA Skills to Build a Better Fruit Fly Trap

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Darin Eich

The Five Innovator’s DNA skills are observing, associating, questioning, experimenting, and networking. You can put these skills to use in everyday situations. The problem. I had fruit flies one summer day. This is fine in the 10th grade biology classroom … Continue reading →

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Incremental +1 or Breakthrough x2 Innovation?

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Darin Eich

Would you rather go +1 or x2 in your ideas and innovations? How about life? How about at work? When innovating and doing things better we have choices. Do we want a slight improvement, a +1, an incremental innovation? Or, … Continue reading →

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