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• Lead by Experiment: A Practical Approach to Navigating Complexity & AI

  • When
    05/27/2026
  •  
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Canopy Menlo Park

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  In today’s world, leaders are expected to move fast, innovate constantly, and still somehow get everything right. No pressure, right?

  For many high-achieving women, that pressure can quietly turn into overthinking, perfectionism, and hesitation, especially when the stakes feel high, the room is complex, and the margin for error feels very small.

  This interactive session is not about adding another leadership framework to your already full plate. It is about creating something far more powerful: permission to experiment.

  Together, we’ll explore why perfectionism can become the enemy of agility, and how small, safe-to-fail actions can help leaders move from analysis paralysis to meaningful momentum. Through live micro-experiments, Melissa will show how experimentation builds confidence, courage, creativity, and psychological safety. For ourselves and the teams we lead.

  • Date/Time: May 27 at 5:00- 6:30 PM
  • Location; Canopy, Menlo Park

  You’ll leave with a practical way to give yourself, or your team, a “permission slip” to try something new this week.

  What You’ll Walk Away With

  By the end of this session, you will:

  1. Understand why “permission to experiment” is more powerful than traditional creativity training.
  2. Experience a live micro-experiment that helps break through overthinking and analysis paralysis.
  3. Leave with one practical permission slip you can use immediately. 

  About the Speaker!
  

  Melissa Dinwiddie helps leaders turn the "impossible" into reality—without burning out in the process.

  After studying dance at Juilliard, Melissa spent 15 years as a professional artist in Silicon Valley, while also performing as a jazz singer-songwriter and improviser. Now, as an innovation strategist, she brings this creative toolkit to teams at Google, Meta, and Salesforce.

  Through her Create the Impossible™ framework—Play Hard. Make Crap. Learn Fast. Melissa shows analytical minds how to unlock agility and lead with courage through rapid change. Author of Innovation at Work, she's known for interactive sessions that leave audiences energized and ready to try something new.

  
  

  
  

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