Harwood Events

Find Your Opportunity to Turn Outward

Harwood events are unique, welcoming, and challenging spaces for individuals, organizations, and communities to learn the Turning Outward practice, engage in conversation, and reflect upon and deepen their work in community. We are bringing public innovators across the nation together to create lasting community change.

What Public Innovators Say About Our Events

A group of Harwood Institute Public Innovators Lab attendees.

“WHAT I LEARNED IN THOSE THREE DAYS WAS SO INCREDIBLY SIMPLE, BUT ALSO INCREDIBLY TRANSFORMATIVE. THE WAY THEY HAVE YOU LEARN ABOUT WHAT A COMMUNITY REALLY WANTS AND NEEDS AND DESIRES AND ASPIRES TO IS BY ASKING AND LISTENING.”

— Public Innovators Lab Participant


“RICH HARWOOD HAS HELPED TO GENERATE A NEW LEVEL OF AUTHENTIC CONVERSATION IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE WAYS HE HAS GUIDED, INSPIRED, AND CHALLENGED US TO GO DEEPER, TURN TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER AND TRULY LISTEN.”

— Suzanne Mineck, President of the Mid-Iowa Health Foundation


Zoom screen shot of a Harwood Institute Virtual Public Innovators Lab.

“THOSE THREE DAYS HAVE CHANGED MY ENTIRE PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORK THAT I DO, MY COMMITMENT TO MY PROFESSION, AND ABOUT HOW I THINK ABOUT HOW WE EVERYDAY ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITIES.”

Virtual Public Innovators Lab Participant