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We turn leaders into Design Thinkers who innovate in business
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Design Thinkers
Bootcamp
5 Days
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
Becky Rowe
Ethnography & Research Expert
Clive Grinyer
Consultant & Service Designer
David Kester
Co-founder, Design Thinking Expert
Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Holly May Mahoney
Facilitator
Associate
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22nd - 26th June
09.00 – 18:00 
Shoreditch Loft, London EC2A 3QT 
Design Thinking
Fundamentals
2 Days
Learn the core principles of design thinking on our concentrated course. Our expert coaches will give you a solid introduction to the theory and then take you straight onto ‘learning through doing’.
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Catherine Collins
Founder, Service Designer and Facilitator
Moxie
Holly May Mahoney
Facilitator
Associate
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27th – 28th February
09.00 – 18.00 Shoreditch Loft, London EC2A 3QT 
Design Thinking
Facilitation
2 Days
Take your facilitation skills to the next level, supported by our coaches. In our dynamic two-day course, you’ll hone the skills you need to guide innovation and service design in business.
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Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Goldie Chaudhuri
Learning Designer
Holly May Mahoney
Facilitator
Associate
Blythe Wild
Producer
Design Thinkers Academy
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
Design Thinkers Academy
Shanna Bent
Customer Relationship Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Ben Crisp
Marketing & Research Manager
Design Thinkers Academy London / DK&A
Next course
28th – 29th April
09.00 – 18.00 The Embassy, 19 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HN 
Facilitation
Mastery
2 Days
Maximise the impact of your workshops, design sprints and team interactions with this highly practical self-development course. We’ll help you master expert tools and group dynamics to drive innovation.
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Holly May Mahoney
Facilitator
Associate
Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Next course
30th Apr – 1st May
09.00 – 18:00 The Embassy, London, SW1X 7HN Companies Graduated
Companies Graduated
Holistically the best, most immersive training course I’ve attended. High calibre facilitators and speakers, a great practical toolkit and a case study to apply them to, meant that everyone went away from the course energised and overflowing with ideas to practically implement the Design Thinking principles. I can’t recommend 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. If you are worrying if it’s worth it – DON’T – it truly is. 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
The Design Thinkers Academy Bootcamp is a truly immersive experience that managed to provide real-world tools and techniques, rigorous evidence for the power of design, and a great deal of fun.
Ezri Carlebach, Senior Associate, The PR Network and Visiting Lecturer, University of Greenwich
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TAILOR A COURSE
We have a long track record of designing customised courses for business. You can tailor any of our open courses for your organisation. Ask us to run a one-off stimulus workshop, train your leaders in design thinking or help you build an innovation culture across your business.
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7 ways Design Thinking can transform your career and business
7 ways Design Thinking can transform your career and business
Dayle Clarke
Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a human-centred problem solving approach that takes you from a broad challenge to a solution. We’ll touch on 7 ways Design Thinking skills can add value to you, no matter what industry you work in.
Read allThe Plastics Cloud - The Story
The Plastics Cloud - The Story
Daniel Boettcher
Long Read
The Plastics Cloud - How a unique collaboration between technology and design thinking is pointing to new ways of reducing plastic waste.
Read allInnovation in the Circular Economy
Innovation in the Circular Economy
Ben Crisp
Human-Centred Design
We teamed up with Advance London and some exciting circular economy SMEs for a second workshop - this time looking at user-centred innovation for circular business.
Read allMeet our coaches
All of our coaches are practitioners at the frontline of business and design. We love what we do and we'd like you to meet one of our very own.
Meet Arnoud Koning
Arnoud Koning is a highly experienced Facilitation coach. He has been an active proponent of design thinking at Procter & Gamble since 2008.
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