A Helikon Labs workshop is a half-day or full-day working session built around the Helikon Method, run on your actual projects and partnerships, with the relevant paid tools included. One price, any organization.
A workshop is a working session, not a lecture. Your team brings its real projects and partnerships, we bring the instruments we use in consulting engagements and the structure to apply them, worked through live with your team. Every workshop includes the relevant paid assessment and tools, completed before the session, so the day starts from your real scores instead of hypotheticals.
Workshops sit deliberately between the self-serve tools and a consulting engagement. If a bundle covers your problem, we’ll say so. If the problem is shared understanding across a team rather than any one person’s knowledge, a workshop is the right layer: faster than a sprint, cheaper than an engagement, and your team keeps the method.
If the work is already scoped and bounded, a Pre-Scoped Sprint delivers more for the dollar. If one person just needs answers, Office Hours is cheaper and faster. Our scoping call will tell you which, and “buy the DIY bundle instead” is an answer we give when it’s true.
Pick the session that matches your problem
Full-day for the whole method, half-day for one phase or topic. Each session books directly from its card, and each card opens the session’s full page: agenda, pre-work, and what your team leaves with. We confirm dates by email after checkout.
Our flagship orientation. All four phases of an R&D partnership lifecycle applied to your organization's partnerships, anchored by a working debrief of your Organizational Maturity Assessment results. Your team leaves with shared alignment on where your portfolio stands and a prioritized list of what to fix first.
Includes: Organizational Maturity Assessment ($197 value), as pre-work
Profiling your research strengths and needs against partner demand and running a structured search, so selection stops depending on whoever happened to email.
Includes: Partner Evaluation Scorecard ($147 value)
Decision rights, responsibility mapping, expectation-setting, escalation paths, and how to prepare a partnership for counsel. We design governance, and we do not draft contract terms or give legal advice.
Includes: Collaboration Design Canvas ($197 value)
Milestone tracking, IP and publication pipelines, governance cadence, and sponsor reporting, tuned to the realities of research projects: uncertain timelines, multi-party deliverables, and the standing tension between publishing and protecting.
Includes: Research Project Management Toolkit ($247 value)
A KPI and impact framework your leadership will pay attention to, built with your team from your own portfolio. Strong fit for corporate portfolios and research offices that need better communication with their stakeholders.
Includes: KPI Dashboard Toolkit ($147 value)
Where AI tools help partnership management and where they don't, including selection criteria and governance basics your compliance office will recognize.
Includes: AI Application Assessment ($297 value)
Your team learns to build and maintain its own ecosystem map and leaves with one started. If you want the map built for you, with network analysis and a strategy document, that's the Ecosystem Mapping Sprint. This session teaches your team the method.
Includes: Ecosystem Mapping Canvas ($247 value)
Format and pricing
Every Helikon Method workshop is capped at 12 participants. Decades of team-effectiveness research, including J. Richard Hackman’s finding that a working group’s coordination and candor erode once it climbs into the double digits, show that smaller groups keep everyone actively contributing rather than spectating. For teams of 6 to 12 we keep up the energy with breakout groups, and for more than 12 we require additional sessions.
Not sure which fits? Book a free 30-minute scoping call.
What happens after you book
1. Checkout is handled by Stripe.
Card payment on a secure Stripe page. You never enter payment details on our site.
2. We confirm your dates.
You chose your session at checkout, so there’s nothing more to pick. We follow up within one business day to lock dates and to issue any included assessment as pre-work.
3. Pre-work goes out two weeks ahead.
Your team completes any included assessments before the session, so the workshop starts from your data.
Who runs it
Andrew Flowers, Founder and CEO of Helikon Labs. Over 18 years, he has worked more roles across the R&D-to-commercialization lifecycle than most: chemical engineer, principal investigator, business developer, contract negotiator, and portfolio manager for tens of millions of dollars in R&D investment bridging universities, corporations and startups, national labs, and government partners. He pairs that operating record with an Executive MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and peer-reviewed primary research on university-industry collaboration.
Every workshop’s included tools are also sold on their own or in phased bundles.
Browse the tools and assessments storePre-Scoped Sprints, tiered engagements, and outsourced partnership management are covered in the free R&D Consulting Engagement Guide, prices included.
Get the free R&D Consulting Engagement GuideHelikon Labs is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. The governance workshop designs operating models and prepares your partnership for counsel, but it does not draft contract terms. Bronze Retainer clients: your retainer includes two half-day workshops per year, drawn from this catalog. All prices in U.S. dollars, valid through 31 December 2026.