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Belmont Innovation Labs

Activating Agents of Hope to pursue human flourishing and community thriving for all

Cross-Sector Collaboration for the Good of the World

With passion, creativity and a healthy dose of gumption, Belmont is building a platform that enables and empowers Agents of Hope to tackle today’s most complex problems – in the classroom and in the community. We equip individuals and organizations to design, develop and deploy collaborative responses to our most complex human challenges.

What Challenge Do You Want to Solve?

Our labs are multi-year, multi-stakeholder working groups funded by corporate or philanthropic partners. These tenacious teams seek to address the grand challenges of our day by developing innovative concepts, generating actionable research, brokering new partnerships, identifying and scaling promising approaches and launching marketplace solutions.

By bringing together brilliant minds, experienced professionals and committed doers for a multi-year facilitated innovation and design process, we believe demonstrable and meaningful change is possible.

Our Model to Activate Change

Come Together

Strategic Convenings

Learn Together

Teaching and Training

Solve Together

Collaborative Innovation

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Belmont University For Human Flourishing

The Innovation Labs builds upon the rich legacy of social innovation and entrepreneurship education at Belmont University, adding and extending capabilities for collaborative partnership and sponsored research with industry and local, regional and global community partners.

Belmont Innovation Labs Leadership

Tom Baldwin
Belmont Innovation Labs

Tom Baldwin

Director of Strategy & Development, Belmont Innovation Labs
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Mary Brownlee
Belmont Innovation Labs

Mary Brownlee

Project Manager, Belmont Innovation Labs
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Bernice Clay
Belmont Innovation Labs

Bernice Clay

Operations Consultant, Belmont Innovation Labs
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Heather Corlew
Belmont Innovation Labs

Heather Corlew

Administrative Coordinator, Belmont Innovation Labs
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Cate McLeane
Belmont Innovation Labs

Cate McLeane

Director of External Partnerships, Belmont Innovation Labs
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Josh Yates
Belmont Innovation Labs, Pathway 2: Data-Informed Social Innovation

Josh Yates

Executive Director, Belmont Innovation Labs
Email: josh.yates@belmont.edu
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Pursue Human Flourishing with Us

It’s going to take all of us to generate lasting solutions. Will you join us?