About ITK
Our team aims to cultivate and share proven mindsets, methods, and processes that help make innovation more approachable, effective, and fun for all.
MITRE Innovation Toolkit Tour
Our Story
Team Toolkit started as a casual group of diverse innovation enthusiasts at MITRE who began to see patterns and overlap in the types of problems and challenges that our sponsors deal with across government. We asked ourselves how we could think and work more like innovators and help others do the same.
We gathered and curated a collection of innovation tools and methods from across industry, government, and academia and paired it with our own knowledge and experience of MITRE and our Sponsors’ problems. Ever since, we have been iterating and refining the resulting Innovation Toolkit with the goal of democratizing innovation. Today our team perpetuates these innovation practices across the US government and the globe. We invite you to join our community of practitioners and innovators to share how these tools and practices work for you.
ITK Founders
We are a cross-disciplinary team of engineers at The MITRE Corporation who are dedicated to providing a creative approach to problem-solving by offering tools, methods, and techniques that lead to data-driven solutions.
Jen Choi 
Rachel Warshawsky
Aileen Laughlin
Stephanie Medicke
Melanie Shere
Dan Ward
Kaylee White
Niall White
Jessica Yu
Success Stories
Four Takeaways from a Creative Project
Guest blogger Allison Khaw shares a story of a recent side project, and the creativity lessons she learned.
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a Workshop Facilitator
Imposter syndrome isn’t just reserved for characters in the Wizard of Oz. Guest blogger Kerrianne Marino shares some thoughts on how to deal with imposter syndrome on ITK workshops.
On the Road to ITK Facilitation: Practice & Feedback
Today's post is co-authored by Bill Donaldson and Lauren Armbruster ITK Trainee’s Perspective: The road to becoming a certified Innovation Tool Kit (ITK) member is clear and full of community support-but it can also make the candidates a little nervous! For instance,...