5 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
09:30 - 12:00 BST
Next course
12-16 September'22
09:30 - 12:00 BST 
Anywhere! Online course via Zoom and Mural HIGHLIGHTED COURSES
FastTrack Online Design Thinking
5 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
09:30 - 12:00 BST
This fast-paced course is the perfect introduction to the Design Thinking essentials, giving you all the foundational knowledge and tools you need to kick-start your own Design Thinking journey.
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Arne van Oosterom
Associate Creative Director & Coach
Design Thinkers Academy London & DK&A
Yuen Yen Tsai
Facilitator
Design Thinkers Academy London
Next course
12-16 September'22
09:30 - 12:00 BST Anywhere! Online course via Zoom and Mural 
Online Design Thinking Facilitation
5 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
09:30 - 12:00 BST
Build your Design Thinking online facilitation skills through our interactive, live online course. You will learn valuable online facilitation techniques and put them into practice.
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Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Susana Osório
Design Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Next course
18, 20, 22, 26, 28 July
9:30 - 12:00 BST Anywhere! Online course via Zoom and Mural 
Storytelling
1 day
09.00 – 18.00 BST
Inspire action and change through storytelling with our live interactive in-person storytellers clinic in an engaging 1-day practical workshop with expert storytellers.
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Joe Ferry
Brand & Experience Architect
Susana Osório
Design Director
DTA London,
DK&A
David Kester
Founder & Managing Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Next course
Autumn – Date to be confirmed
09.00 – 18.00 GMT Location – The Factory, London, SW18 
Service Blueprinting
3 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
09:30-12:00 GMT
Learn how to build service blueprints and how best to adapt them to diverse contexts and applications, responding to particular project requirements.
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Simon Gough
Service Designer & Coach
Design Thinkers Academy London
Craig Tomkins
Service & Experience Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Next course
12, 14, 16 Dec
9:30-12:00 BST Anywhere! Online course via Zoom and Mural 
Design Thinkers Bootcamp
5 Days
09.00 – 18.00 BST
Join us on our intensive Bootcamp and you’ll explore every stage of the design and innovation cycle. You’ll build your knowledge, from user-centric research to prototyping ideas to the final pitch.
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Joe Ferry
Brand & Experience Architect
Arne van Oosterom
Associate Creative Director & Coach
Design Thinkers Academy London & DK&A
David Kester
Founder & Managing Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Becky Rowe
Ethnographer & Coach
Revealing Reality
Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Susana Osório
Design Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Simon Gough
Service Designer & Coach
Design Thinkers Academy London
Next course
7 - 11 Nov 2022 |
20 - 24 Feb 2023
20 - 24 Feb 2023
09.00 – 18:00 BST The Factory, London, SW18 5JS 
Systems Thinking | Advanced Practitioner Course
3 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
09:30 - 12:00 GMT
Build your knowledge and skills in Systems Thinking. Explore and understand complex systems, as well as how they interact, so you can design even more effective interventions. Anticipate the implications of your innovations before you launch them.
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Simon Gough
Service Designer & Coach
Design Thinkers Academy London
Susana Osório
Design Director
DTA London,
DK&A
Next course
23, 25, 27 Jan
09:30 - 12:00 GMT Anywhere! Online course via Zoom and Mural
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99% recommendation rate from over 1000 delegates.
Course Rating, Delegates from around the world.
Holistically the best, most immersive training course I’ve attended. I can’t recommend it enough!
Warren Kearney, Director of Business Solutions, BT
Best investment of 5 days I have ever made
Neil Halls, Innovation Strategist, VISA
Absolutely the best course I’ve ever been on- everything was superbly organised and made for a perfect learning environment
John Wood, Associate Director, Trades Union Congress
I can certainly say the design journey we went on was insightful, fully immersive, highly educational, challenging and a brilliant, useful, practical experience. Go for it, you won’t regret it.
Kate Hall, Design Director, HS2
The coaches/ facilitators at the Design Thinkers Academy are masters of their art. Hands down the best training course I have ever been on.
Bee Heller, Partner, The Pioneers
The content, facilitation and delivery of the course was world class.
James Leech, Innovation Analyst, Fidelity
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On top of our Design Thinking open courses, we also have a highly successful history of delivering bespoke Design Thinking training, tailored for companies individual needs – delivered both online and in-person.
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Podcast - The Importance of Design
Podcast - The Importance of Design
Ben Crisp
Interview, Podcast
We talk to Goldie Chaudhuri about Design Thinking and its role in society today on challenges such as climate change.
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The Plastics Cloud - The Story
Daniel Boettcher
Long Read
Learn how a collaboration between technology and Design Thinking is helping reduce plastic waste.
Read allCreating Responsible Revolutions – The Innovators' Goal
Creating Responsible Revolutions – The Innovators' Goal
David Kester
Long Read, Opinion
Founder and director David Kester talks through our new initiative and why the world needs innovators now, more than ever.
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At DK&A we work with a wide variety of clients, harnessing the power of design to drive meaningful change.
As well as offering Design Thinking training, we also deliver design consultancy for companies around the world, through our parent company, DK&A. We set design strategy, shape user-centred services, kickstart projects and coach teams to stimulate innovation and solve problems.
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