Patricia Flanagan
REJIG
Director
Patricia has over 25 years experience working in the Enterprise and Education sectors in Northern Ireland. Since a visit to the d school, Stanford University in 2010 she has worked exclusively in Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving, pioneering the inclusion of Design Thinking for social good into the curriculum in the college she worked in until 2014. In March 2014 Patricia set up her own business called Rejig. Her primary focus is on developing design-thinking/creative problem solving approaches to stimulate innovation. She is a specialist facilitator and has designed and delivered a vast range of design thinking programmes for education working with students at every age and every level from 9 year olds to PHD and Masters students in QUB Graduate School. She has run a number of large scale Innovation Camps giving young people the opportunity to learn creative thinking tools to solve local social challenges. Patricia is passionate about introducing CPS and Design Thinking to as wide an audience as possible and is constantly experimenting with new ways to use tools. She loves to dance, in particular Irish Dancing. Patricia really values the opportunity to meet and share experiences with others, build new connections and learn from the amazing creative community at CPSI.