Launch My Idea Academy
Turn your ideas into well-planned, high-impact projects.
The Launch My Idea™ Academy is a practical, hands-on training program that teaches professionals how to confidently plan, manage, and deliver successful projects using the proven LMI™ 8-Step Project Planning Process.
Whether you're leading a new initiative, improving an existing program, launching a service, or managing organizational change, the Academy provides the tools, structure, and coaching needed to move from concept to action while reducing risk and increasing stakeholder engagement.
Through 16 hours of live, interactive virtual training delivered across eight sessions, plus personalized one-on-one coaching, and drop in group coaching sessions, participants apply the LMI™ process directly to a real project they are currently working on. By the end of the program, you'll have more than knowledge. You'll have a completed project plan that is ready for implementation.
Participants learn how to identify and mitigate risks, prevent tokenization of participants, strengthen stakeholder buy-in, make informed decisions, and create projects that are both practical and impactful. The Academy's structured approach helps transform ideas into actionable plans while building confidence in your ability to lead projects successfully.
In addition to the live training sessions and coaching, participants should expect to spend approximately 1–2 hours per week applying course concepts to their project. This investment ensures that learning translates into a tangible outcome: a thoughtfully designed, actionable project plan that can be implemented immediately.
Don't just learn project planning. Leave with a project ready to launch.
LMI 8 Step Planning Process
*Learn a technique you can use to discover your own and others’ underlying purpose for Y/YA involvement in your event or activity. *Uncover the real purpose for the event/activity.
*Dream big and articulate the outcome(s) you wish to achieve *Identify a vivid and powerful creative expression to keep you motivated to achieve your outcome(s).
*Gain insights that empower you to choose the right method of youth involvement and participation that will align with your outcomes. *Understand and apply Hart's Ladder of non-tokenizing, non-traumatizing participant engagement.
*Learn how to conduct a Cognitive Behavioral Analysis (CBA) that has been adapted to uncover benefits and risks for Y/YA events/activities. *Analyze benefits/risks and discover remedies to minimize risk and enhance benefits
*Learn how to use your benefit/risk analysis to identify, review, and update or create needed practices, training, policies, agreements, and/or procedures for your chosen Y/YA involvement event/activity. *Set a safe and solid foundation of readiness for minimizing risk, and enhancing the benefits of Y/YA involvement
*Create an action plan that will provide steps and actions to implement your project and reach your outcome(s). *Create a project description for various audiences *Draft a budget *Identify potential participants
*Learn how to identify the stages of change in youth and young adults and other audiences in your project using the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM). *Learn how to leverage the stages of change of your various audiences to increase likelihood of reaching your desired outcome and to maximize change in your project.
*Learn how to conduct a self-assessment by looking for gaps and opportunities and making enhancements. *Learn common unintended consequences of Y/YA involvement and how to apply LMI™ 8 Points of Best Practice to mitigate these effects. *Increase your critical thinking skills by assessing other Y/YA projects and being able to identify enhancements and modifications.
Launch My Idea Academy™ is ideal for professionals across industries including entrepreneurs, mental health professionals/advocates, nonprofit workers, corporate teams, and event planners seeking to create impactful and sustainable projects with ethical practices at their core.
Whether you're launching a new product, planning a community project, enhancing social responsibility, or organizing inclusive events, our academy provides essential tools and support. Attendees should be committed to inclusivity, ethical innovation, and making a positive difference in their field.
Join us to elevate your project planning skills and turn your ideas into successful, meaningful initiatives.
